Casey Williams

Casey is a nonprofit business and employment attorney, based in Liebert Cassidy Whitmore’s San Francisco office. Her dynamic practice is focused on helping mission-driven organizations achieve their goals while staying compliant and working through complex problems and challenging organizational moments. She has worked with an array of nonprofits organizations of all types and sizes, such as independent schools, after-school providers, youth advocacy organizations, community clinics, affordable housing providers, funders and fiscal sponsors, museums, and community college foundations. Casey’s nonprofit business work focuses on guiding nonprofits through corporate formations, tax-exemption applications, corporate governance matters, grant and contract matters, gift/donation agreements, mergers, affiliations, and nonprofit dissolutions. She regularly advises on matters relating to business contracts for nonprofits, such as facilities use agreements, grant agreements, partnership agreements, fiscal sponsorship agreements, asset transfer agreements, and vendor contracts. In doing so she advises on an array of issues unique to nonprofits, such as disputes among board members, managing volunteers, engaging in lobbying, grant compliance, and managing crisis management with board chairs, directors, and executive leadership. Prior to focusing on nonprofit business matters, Casey was an experienced employment litigator, and she continues to advise and counsel nonprofits on almost every aspect of employment law. She regularly counsels nonprofit clients on wage and hour, discrimination, disability, and leave, and employee relations matters. She also loves drafting employment documents such as handbooks, personnel policies, employment contracts, and helping organizations navigate difficult issues, such as layoffs, terminations, employee discipline, performance management, and workplace investigations, and wage and hour compliance.