Alicia M Beck Author

Bruce R. Hopkins practices law with the Bruce R. Hopkins Law Firm, LLC, in Kansas City, Missouri. His practice concentrates on the representation of charitable and other tax-exempt organizations, ranging over the entirety of law matters involving exempt organizations, with emphasis on fundraising law issues, charitable giving (including planned giving), the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, governance and the law, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint-venture planning, tax shelter involvement, review of annual information returns, and Internet communications developments.

Alicia M. Beck is an associate in the law firm of Polsinelli PC, practicing in the firm’s Kansas City, Missouri, office. She specializes in advising nonprofit entities. Her clients include national hospital systems, research organizations, private foundations, colleges, universities, associations, social welfare organizations, and governmental entities. Ms. Beck assists these clients with formation, structure, and operational issues, including fundraising regulation. She also has experience with various tax restructuring issues relating to international entities.
Ms. Beck received her JD degree from the University of Kansas School of Law. Ms. Beck received an LLM in taxation from Northwestern University. She received a BA in Supply and Value Chain Management from Texas Christian University. She is a member of the bars of the states of Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri. She was also selected a 2015 Kansas and Missouri Rising Star for Tax Law.