Jeffrey S. Tenenbaum is a partner with and chair of the Nonprofit Organizations Practice Group of Venable LLP. The firm provides legal counseling to and advocacy for over 600 nonprofit organizations nationwide. Resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, Mr. Tenenbaum concentrates his practice exclusively on nonprofit law, counseling his clients on a broad array of legal issues and representing them before numerous federal and state agencies and on Capitol Hill, and in connection with governmental investigations, enforcement actions, litigation, and arbitration. He was named the Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer of the Year in 2006 by the American Bar Association, was an inaugural recipient of the Washington Business Journal’s Top Washington Lawyers award in 2004, and received the distinguished Chairman’s Award in 1997 and again in 2004 from the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives and The Center for Association Leadership. Mr. Tenenbaum serves as special counsel to the American Society of Association Executives. He is the author of the book Association Tax Compliance Guide, published by ASAE, and is a contributor to numerous ASAE books and other publications. Mr. Tenenbaum is a frequent lecturer, author and commentator on nonprofit legal issues for the major industry organizations and publications, as well as for mainstream media such as the New York Times and The Washington Post, and served as a “professor” for the ASAE Virtual Law School. He is an active participant in the nonprofit community who serves on several industry boards and committees.