Bruce R. Hopkins is a senior partner with the law firm of Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC, in its Kansas City, Missouri, and Washington, D.C. offices. He specializes in the representation of charitable and other nonprofit organizations, including private foundations. His practice ranges over the entirety of legal matters involving nonprofit organizations, with emphasis on legal matters pertaining to private foundations, fundraising law issues, charitable giving (including planned giving), the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt and public cha...