2010 NPGC Conference

Reviewing the 2010 NPGC Conference

Fifth Annual National Planned Giving Council Conference
September 30–October 1, 2010
Joseph Smith Memorial Building
Salt Lake City, Utah

Keynote Speaker: B. Howard Pearson, JD Development Legal Counsel and Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Stanford University

B. Howard Pearson is the Development Legal Counsel and Senior Philanthropic Advisor at Stanford University and a lecturer at the Stanford Law School where he teaches two courses:  Trusts and Estates and Estate Planning.  He graduated from Stanford (BS 1976) and the University of Utah (JD 1979).  He joined the firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, where he was an associate and partner in the field of estate planning for fifteen years before joining Stanford in 1995.  For many years, Mr. Pearson was a co-editor of California Probate Practice with Matthew Bender.

Sessions included discussions on recent developments in estate planning, taxable gifting, and non-grantor charitable lead trusts.