Casey, Chair of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore’s Nonprofit Practice Group, is a skilled nonprofit business and employment attorney based in the firm’s San Francisco office. Her dynamic practice is focused on helping mission-driven organizations achieve their goals while staying compliant and working through complex problems and challenging organizational moments. She has worked with an array of nonprofits organizations of all types and sizes, such as independent schools, after-school providers, youth advocacy organizations, community clinics, affordable housing providers, funders and fiscal sponsors, museums, and community college foundations.
Casey’s nonprofit business work focuses on guiding nonprofits through corporate formations, tax-exemption applications, corporate governance matters, grant and contract matters, gift/donation agreements, mergers, affiliations, and nonprofit dissolutions. She regularly advises on matters relating to business contracts for nonprofits, such as facilities use agreements, grant agreements, partnership agreements, fiscal sponsorship agreements, asset transfer agreements, and vendor contracts. In doing so she advises on an array of issues unique to nonprofits, such as disputes among board members, managing volunteers, engaging in lobbying, grant compliance, and crisis management with board chairs, directors, and executive leadership.
Prior to focusing on nonprofit business matters, Casey was an experienced employment litigator, and she continues to advise and counsel nonprofits on almost every aspect of employment law. She regularly counsels nonprofit clients on wage and hour, discrimination, disability, leave, and employee relations matters. She also loves drafting employment documents such as handbooks, personnel policies, employment contracts, and helping organizations navigate difficult issues, such as layoffs, terminations, performance management, and workplace investigations, and wage and hour compliance.
Prior to joining Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Casey worked for a full-service business firm in Oakland where she practiced employment and nonprofit law. She was also an instructor for five years at the College of Extended Learning, San Francisco State University, where she taught a survey course on employment law for Human Resources professionals.
In law school, Casey served as an extern for the Hon. Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. During law school, she served as a production editor for the UC Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal and was a member of the board of the moot court team.
Professional and Community Involvement
Casey is a member of the California Lawyers Association’s Nonprofit Organizations Committee.
Casey is a member of the Board of Directors the Unity Council, a Community Development Corporation providing housing, education, and economic opportunities to Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.
She is a member in good standing of the Alameda County Bar Association, where she served on the Executive Committee of the Barristers Section and as a Commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Evaluation Committee. Casey was also the former Supervising Volunteer Attorney for the Low Income Landlord Clinic, of Legal Access Alameda.
Recognitions
Casey is the Alameda County Bar Associations 2014 Volunteer of the Year.
Casey is the recipient of the Wiley W. Manuel Certificate for Pro Bono Legal Services, State Bar of California in 2013-2016.
