RICHARD C. ALLEN is a partner at the Boston firm of Casner & Edwards LLP, where he specializes in the representation of nonprofit organizations, foundations, and charitable trusts, and of businesses and individuals in matters involving philanthropy. He advises nonprofit organizations with respect to tax exemption issues, corporate law questions, fiduciary and governance responsibilities, transactional and business matters, fundraising and donor issues, charitable trust law, governmental regulatory matters and investigations, and property and sales tax questions. He also counsels trustees, businesses, municipalities, and professional groups in transactions and matters involving nonprofit organizations or charitable activity. Mr. Allen is cochair of the state and local regulation subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s exempt organizations committee and is a member of the Massachusetts and Boston bar associations. Previously, he was counsel at the Boston firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP, assistant attorney general and chief of the Division of Public Charities in the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General, and chief and assistant attorney general in the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Indiana University.  (January 2011)