She works regularly with clients in the following areas:

• Corporate governance
• Private foundation issues including self-dealing, jeopardy investments and expenditure responsibility
• Applications for tax-exempt status and related follow-up with the IRS
• Political activity, lobbying and advocacy
• Nonprofit restructuring, consolidation and merger
• Private benefit and inurement issues, including excess benefit transactions and intermediate sanctions
• Unrelated business income taxation
• Complex operational structures such as nonprofit/for-profit combinations and joint ventures
• UPMIFA requirements around investment and endowment spending
• Restricted gifts

Becky is the principal author of the Leaffer Law Group Nonprofit Law Blog and a contributing author to A Guide for Colorado Nonprofit Organizations.

She has taught nonprofit law fundamentals at the University of Colorado School of Law and the Colorado State University MBA program, and has presented at the Annual Primer on Advising Nonprofit Organizations and the National Scholarship Providers Association annual conference. She regularly presents on timely topics such as social enterprise, program-related investments and donor-advised funds.

Becky was named one of Law Week Colorado’s Up-and-Coming Lawyers in 2012. She serves on the Legal Committee for the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, and regularly assists the organization with donor fund agreements and questions involving donor-advised funds.

A Colorado native residing in Boulder, Becky enjoys spending time outdoors hiking and taking in the scenery in the company of her son and her dog. She also enjoys sampling the many microbrews that Colorado has to offer.