Tips for Avoiding Legal Trouble
If your CEO job description is like many, it doesn’t mention one of your most important responsibilities: keeping the association, its members and staff out of legal jeopardy. It is important to pay closer attention to the countless ways your association can become ensnared in legal problems. I asked two legal experts—Jonathan Howe, founding partner and president of Chicago firm Howe & Hutton, Ltd. and Paula Cozzi Goedert, a partner in the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP and chairman of the Associations & Foundations Practice Group—to share what they consider to be the three most-common ways that association executives get tripped up.
Let’s begin with Jonathan Howe’s top three:
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Steven Hacker, CAE, who retired in 2012 as president of the International Association of Exhibitions & Events, has more than 40 years of association management experience. His column, “The Association Doctor,” appears each month in Association News. He can be reached at via email at steven.hacker@schneiderpublishing.com.