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Robert Wexler is a Principal with the San Francisco law firm of Adler & Colvin, a firm that specializes in the representation of nonprofit organizations and their donors, with an emphasis on tax and corporate matters. His practice focuses on private foundation grant making, program related investments, representing social enterprises, and unrelated business income tax issues, in addition to the full range of other issues affecting public charities and private foundations. He received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Brown University in 1982. He received his law degree from Columbia University in 1985. Mr. Wexler is a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. He has also taught courses at the University of San Francisco and in the LLM program at Golden Gate University. He is an Advisory Board member of NYU’s National Center for Law and Philanthropy. He has served as a board member and officer on nonprofit boards, and he has been actively involved in the Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco. Mr. Wexler is a contributing author to CEB’s text Advising California Nonprofit Corporations. His most recently published articles include: “Social Enterprise – a Legal Context” Exempt Organizations Tax Review (December, 2006), “Two Key Revenue Rulings Provide a Road Map for Private Foundation Terminations,” Journal of Taxation (2003). Mr. Wexler is a member of the American Bar Association, and an active participant of the Tax Section’s Exempt Organization Committee, where he currently serves as Co-Chair, Sub-Committee on Unrelated Business Income Activities.

email: wexler@adlercolvin.com