Robert Boisture
Position: Partner
Organization: Caplin & Drysdale, LLP
Location: Washington, DC
Robert Boisture is a co-convener of the Legal Framework Work Group.
Robert Boisture is a senior member of the tax-exempt organizations practice group of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, and specializes in legal issues affecting tax-exempt organizations. Mr. Boisture has advised clients on numerous subjects, including qualification for tax-exempt status, charitable contributions, private foundation rules, legal responsibilities of charitable boards, unrelated business income tax, for-profit subsidiaries and joint ventures, limitations on legislative activities of charities, and state law fiduciary duties of charitable directors. He is a frequent writer and speaker on exempt organization issues, and is co editor in chief of the Journal of Taxation of Tax-Exempt Organizations. From 1986 to 1992, Mr. Boisture was associate general counsel and director of public policy for the YMCA of the USA. He holds undergraduate degrees from Princeton and Oxford universities, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.