Wendell Bird

Wendell Bird (born Atlanta, Georgia) is the author of Press and Speech Under Assault (Oxford University Press 2016),[1] and of legal history articles.[2][3] He earned his D.Phil. in legal history at University of Oxford,[4] and his J.D. from Yale Law School.[5] He is a Visiting Scholar at Emory University School of Law.[6]

After three decades practicing in Atlanta, Georgia primarily in tax laws affecting exempt organizations and in litigation, he is a senior partner at a small Atlanta law firm.[7][8] He graduated from Vanderbilt University (B.A., summa cum laude).[7][8] While at Yale Law School, he served on the Yale Law Journal Board of Editors.[9]

He is a member of the American Law Institute,[10] a fellow of the American Bar Foundation,[11] a member of the American Bar Association, and co-chair of its Subcommittee on Charitable Contributions.[12] He is listed in Who's Who in America (1995–present) and Who's Who in the World (1995–present).[12]

Nonprofit organization law

He has been an annual faculty member of the Washington Non-Profit Legal & Tax Conference for over 30 years,[13] and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the RIA Thomson Reuters publication, Taxation of Exempts.[14] He has published three tax chapters and more than 20 articles on the laws affecting nonprofit organizations and charitable giving.[7][15] He has been a member of the Board of Advisors of New York University School of Law's National Center on Philanthropy and the Law.[16]

Litigation

In litigation Bird primarily has represented securities claims, such as a suit against Merrill Lynch and its Focus Twenty Fund,[17] or a suit against TH Lee Putnam Ventures and Merrill Lynch,[18] both of which resulted in favorable decisions; and charitable fraud and diversion claims, such as a suit on behalf of the M. L. Simpson Foundation[19] or a suit against the Chatlos Foundation.[20]

In 2004, Bird represented APA Excelsior III (owned by predecessor to APAX Partners) and other large Wall Street private equity funds (managed by APAX Partners) in a federal court lawsuit alleging numerous securities law violations in connection with a sale to Healthfield Holdings, Inc.[21]

In 2000-2002, he represented the Bengard Group in a trial and appeal, winning in excess of $44 million.[22][23][24]

In the early 1980s, Bird worked for the predecessor to Atlanta's Womble Carlyle law firm, and also served as a special assistant attorney general for Louisiana in a case for six years. As a special assistant he defended the state's "equal time" law, which was ruled to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals,[25] and a rehearing en banc was narrowly denied by an 8-7 decision at the appellate level.[26] He argued the case for Louisiana to the U.S. Supreme Court, which affirmed the law's unconstitutionality in Edwards v. Aguillard by a 6-1-2 vote.[27]

Nonprofit organization law chapters and articles

  • Wendell R. Bird, "Religious Organizations and Tax Law," Federal and State Taxation of Exempt Organizations, Chapter 4, Warren Gorhan & Lamont Publishers, 1994.[7]
  • Wendell R. Bird & Russell Reach, "Unrelated Debt-Financed Income," 8 CCH's Federal Tax Service J: Chapter 6 (1995).[7]
  • Wendell R. Bird & Russell Reach, "Debt-Financed Income," Bender's Federal Tax Service J: Chapter 6 (1988).[7]
  • Wendell R. Bird, "No Relief But Much Red Tape for Charities and Foundation," 17 Taxation of Exempts 201 (2006).[15]
  • Wendell R. Bird, " IRS Offers Guidance on "Election Year Issues" for Exempt Organizations," 15 Taxation of Exempts 269 (2004).[15]
  • Wendell R. Bird, "Charitable Giving Techniques and Other Estate Techniques," Journal of Retirement Planning at 9 (Nov.-Dec. 2003).[28]
  • Wendell R. Bird, "The Shape of Charitable Gift Planning After 'Repeal' of the Federal Estate Tax," 14 Taxation of Exempts 114 (2002).[15]
  • Wendell R. Bird, "Political Activities and Exempt Organizations," 12 Journal of Taxation of Exempt Organizations 243 (2000).[15]
  • Wendell R. Bird, "Exempt Organizations Rules on Political Activities," 7 J Tax Exempt Organizations 195, (1996). [31]
  • Wendell R. Bird & Harvey Koning III, "Exempt Organizations Face Sales and Use Taxes in the Aftermath of Quill," 6 J Tax Exempt Organizations 16 (1994).[15]
  • Wendell R. Bird & Timothy W. Townsend, "Current Developments in the State and Local Taxation of Exempt Organizations", 4 J. Tax'n Exempt Org. (WGL) 20 (1992).[15]
  • Wendell R. Bird & Timothy W. Townsend, "Sales Tax Relief Not Automatic for Tax-Exempt Entities," 2 J Multistate Taxation 203 (1992).[15]
  • Wendell R. Bird & T.O. Kotouc, "Exempt Religious Organizations Have Strict Limits", 48 Taxation for Accountants 207 (1992).[15]

References

  1. ↑ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/press-and-speech-under-assault-9780190461621?cc=us&lang=en&#
  2. ↑ Wendell Bird, "Liberties of Press and Speech: 'Evidence Does Not Exist To Contradict the . . . Blackstonian Sense' in Late 18th Century England?," 36 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1-25 (Spring 2016) (Copyright Oxford University Press 2015): http://ojls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/gqv010?ijkey=RbcpZ2ZIUb8uIpP&keytype=ref
  3. ↑ Wendell Bird, "New Light on the Sedition Act of 1798: The Missing Half of the Prosecutions," 34 Law and History Review 541-614 (August 2016) (Copyright Cambridge University Press 2016): http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A10JkAhxxDDneY
  4. ↑ Bird, Wendell (2011). "Freedoms of press and speech in the first decade of the U.S. Supreme Court". Oxford Research Archive.
  5. ↑ http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3A1a9de49a-b8c8-4500-a214-12a1719f6425
  6. ↑ http://directory.service.emory.edu/?eodentry=P0300469
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Wendell Bird - Lawyer Profile". Martindale/LexisNexis. 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
  8. 1 2 "Attorney Profile: Wendell Bird". Bird & Associates Law Firm. 2009. Archived from the original on March 23, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
  9. ↑ "The Yale Law Journal" (PDF). November 1977. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  10. ↑ "Member Directory:Search Term=Bird". American Law Institute. 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
  11. ↑ http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/uploads/cms/documents/2014_roster.3.pdf
  12. 1 2 http://www.martindale.com/Wendell-R-Bird-PC/866649-lawyer.htm
  13. ↑ "46th Annual Washington Non-Profit Legal & Tax Conference Faculty". Washington Non-Profit Legal & Tax Conference. 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
  14. ↑ "Taxation of Exempts". Thomson Reuters. 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "NCPL Database Search Results:Search "Wendell and Bird"". National Center on Philanthropy and the Law:NYU School of Law. 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
  16. ↑ http://www1.law.nyu.edu/ncpl/about/past_members.html
  17. ↑ "Notice of Motion Admitting Wendell R. Bird and Richard L. Brittain as Counsel for Plaintiff". July 9, 2003. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  18. ↑ "There Was A Discrepancy With Reality". April 4, 2006. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  19. ↑ "Ministry says $80M-plus trust is mismanaged". May 27, 2010. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  20. ↑ "Joy Chatlos D'Arata vs. The Chatlos Foundation, Inc. Brief on Jurisdiction" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  21. ↑ "APA Excelsior III v. Windley, Venture Capital Litigation Reporter, Vol. 2, No. 10" (PDF). Page Mill Publishing. 2005. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
  22. ↑ "Orange County California Superior Court, Case No. 797567, Judgment of 1/29/01".
  23. ↑ "Minutes 9/16/08, California State Board of Equalization:Bengard Group" (PDF). California Board of Equalization. 2008. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
  24. ↑ "Partial List of Dispute Analysis and Expert Testimony". Mammoth Advisors. 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
  25. ↑ "Aguillard v. Edwards, 765 F.2d 1251". Retrieved 2009-12-30.
  26. ↑ "Aguillard v. Edwards, 778 F.2d 225". Retrieved 2009-12-30.
  27. ↑ "Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578". Retrieved 2009-12-30.
  28. ↑ http://www.birdlawfirm.com/pdf/ACharitableGiving2003.pdf
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