Presenter

Douglas Freeman

Chairman, First Foundation Advisors

Doug Freeman is co-founder and managing partner of IFF Advisors. In this capacity, he provides strategic planning and organizational management advice for business, nonprofit, foundation, and family clients. He is a noted tax attorney and founder of the law firm, Freeman, Freeman & Smiley, LLP, located in Los Angeles and Irvine, California. In 2005, he was recognized by Worth Magazine as among the 100 best lawyers in the United States, and, in 1999, he was featured by Bloomberg Financial as one of the nation’s leading estate planning attorneys. He is the founder of National Philanthropy Day, proclaimed by Congress and celebrated throughout the United States since 1986. He is the author of two text books and over 30 articles and treatises on philanthropy and wealth planning. Mr. Freeman has been a consultant to nearly 200 family foundations, support organizations and public charities throughout the United States. He is a director of seven family or independent foundations, and three public charities – Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of California, Irvine Foundation; past Chairman and current member of the Executive Committee of the Board Directors of Orange County’s Pacific Symphony; and director of the University of Southern California Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy. Mr. Freeman is a graduate of Stanford University (A.B. with Distinction, 1967), University of California at Los Angeles (J.D., 1970), and the University of San Diego (LL.M. in Taxation, 1984). He is a Certified Specialist in Taxation, under the State Bar of California.

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