Richard C. Allen

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Position: Partner

Organization: Casner & Edwards, LLP

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Richard C. Allen is a member of the Forms 990 Advisory Committee.

Richard C. Allen is a partner at the Boston law firm of Casner & Edwards, LLP, where he specializes in nonprofit corporate, regulatory, tax exemption, foundation and trust matters.  He is co-chair of the State and Local Regulation Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Exempt Organizations Committee and co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Health Law Section.  He has served as an elected member of the Boston Bar Association Board of Directors, as chair of the Tax-Exempt Organizations Committee, and as a member of the Education Policy Committee. Mr. Allen is also a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Tax Exempt Organizations Committee, and the Boston Bar Association’s Corporate Law Committee and Colleges & Universities Section.  Prior to joining Casner & Edwards, Mr. Allen was counsel at the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart and served as Assistant Attorney General and Director of the Division of Public Charities in the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. He was a president of the National Association of State Charity Officials and a 1998 recipient of the National Association of Attorneys General award for national achievement. Mr. Allen is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Indiana University.

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