EDUCATION
J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, 1998
Recipient, Order of the Coif law school honors society
Recipient, Judge R. Dorsey Watkins Award for excellence in torts
B.A., Loyola College In Maryland, 1989


BAR ADMISSIONS
District of Columbia
Maryland


PRACTICE AREAS
Nonprofit Organizations
Trade and Professional Associations
Antitrust
Credit Counseling and Debt Settlement
Political Law


INDUSTRIES
Trade and Professional Associations
Credit Counseling and Debt Settlement


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George E. Constantine
Partner, Washington, DC office

t (202) 344-4790   f (202) 344-8300
geconstantine@venable.com

 
PRACTICE FOCUS

George Constantine concentrates his practice exclusively on providing legal counseling to and advocacy for trade and professional associations and other nonprofit organizations. He has extensive experience with many of the major legal issues affecting associations, including contracts, tax, antitrust, governance, and political activity matters.

Mr. Constantine has represented exempt organization clients undergoing Internal Revenue Service examinations; he has assisted associations and other nonprofit organizations going through mergers, consolidations, joint ventures, and dissolutions; and he has provided ongoing counseling on numerous transactional and governance matters that are unique to nonprofit organizations.

CLIENT BENEFITS

Mr. Constantine is the former Staff Counsel of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), the 25,000-member national society for trade and professional association executives. As ASAE's sole staff attorney, he gained in-depth experience with the many legal issues facing associations. He also represented ASAE's interests before Congress and federal agencies.

PUBLICATIONS/SPEECHES

Mr. Constantine is the author of numerous articles regarding legal issues affecting associations and other nonprofit organizations published by ASAE, the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives, the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, the New York Society of Association Executives, and the Texas Society of Association Executives. His article entitled, "New Campaign Finance Disclosure Law Hits the Wrong Target" was published in the January/February 2001 edition of the Journal of Taxation of Exempt Organizations. Mr. Constantine is a frequent lecturer on association and tax-exemption organization legal topics, including corporate and tax issues.

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