Michael W. Durham joined Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, D.C. office in 2004. His practice focuses on exempt organizations, and he has experience with a variety of issues facing such organizations, including fiduciary duties, unrelated business income, excess-benefit transactions, joint ventures and for-profit conversions, and the recognition of charities under international treaties.
In addition to his work for domestic exempt organizations, Mr. Durham has been involved in the ongoing development of the legal framework governing nonprofits abroad. In October 2004, he participated as a foreign expert for the Chinese Charity Federation's first annual International Charity Seminar, co-authoring
An Introduction to the Law and Regulation of Non-Profit Organizations in the United States for the occasion.
Other publications include
Tsunami: NGO Response, 47
Exempt Org. Tax Rev. 181 (2005) (with Milton Cerny) and
Overview of NGO Framework Legislation in Central and Eastern Europe (ICNL 2001) (with Douglas Rutzen).