Recognition

Sep 14, 2020

Seyfarth’s Douglas Mancino Receives ABA Business Law Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Nonprofit Law

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Douglas Mancino, partner in Seyfarth's Corporate department in Los Angeles, received the Vanguard Award from the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Business Law Section. The ABA’s 2020 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Awards recognized Mancino for distinguished lifetime achievement in the nonprofit sector.

Mancino has represented tax-exempt organizations on business, tax and financial matters throughout his 46-year career. He also has extensive experience in audits, appeals, and other tax controversies, including tax litigation in the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits. He has served as counsel to health care clients in a case that defined the limits of tax-exempt organizations participating in health care joint ventures and represents tax-exempt health plans throughout the United States. You can read Mancino’s full profile here.

The ABA Business Law Section is a global network of almost 40,000 business law professionals interested in expanding their knowledge, engaging with their professional communities, and advancing their experience through the Section's various benefits. The mission of the Section’s Nonprofit Organizations Committee is to serve as a resource for nonprofit lawyers on issues affecting nonprofit organizations in a rapidly changing legal and regulatory environment and to monitor and update the Model Nonprofit Corporation Act.