Attorneys

Pamela S. Kaufmann, Partner

Direct Phone: 415-995-5043
pkaufmann@hansonbridgett.com

Practice Areas: Senior Housing and Long-term Care; Nonprofit & Tax-Exempt Organizations

Pamela S. Kaufmann dedicates her entire practice to the representation of senior care and housing providers and tax-exempt organizations. She advises assisted living facilities, continuing care retirement communities, skilled nursing facilities, housing providers, hospices and other providers on development issues (corporate structuring, licensing, real estate, tax exemptions), operations (contracting, regulatory compliance, elder abuse, consent and capacity issues, OBRA, fraud and abuse, and nonprofit and tax-exempt compliance), risk management and insurance issues, affiliations, mergers and acquisitions. Her intimate knowledge of clients' operations and contracts, coupled with her extensive tax-exempt expertise, makes her a natural choice for borrower's counsel whenever clients incur tax-exempt debt.

Pamela remains on the cutting edge of legal reforms and developments in the senior care and housing industry. She serves on the Legal Committee of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) as both a core member and the State delegate from the Aging Services of California. She also serves on the Aging Services of California Legal Committee, and was appointed to both AAHSA's and Aging Services of California's liability task forces, which were formed to combat the effects of the liability crisis that afflicts senior care providers. She was on the committee that rewrote California's continuing care laws and on a State task force that addressed elder care issues, and she routinely advises Aging Services of California regarding a host of legal issues.

Pamela regularly speaks before industry organizations such as AAHSA, Aging Services of California, the California Assisted Living Association (CALA), and the California Association for Health Facilities (CAHF) on issues including elder abuse, the liability crisis, disability discrimination, fair housing, corporate compliance, tax-exempt matters, and corporate governance issues, including the effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on nonprofit organizations. She has contributed articles on these and other subjects to The Journal on Taxation, Taxation of Exempts, Tax Exempt Organization Tax Review, Spectrum Magazine, California Health Law News, and the legal newsletters published by Aging Services of California, AAHSA and CALA. She is committed to the use of plain English and advocates practical, cost-effective solutions to clients' problems.

Pamela is frequently sought after for her expertise on nonprofit and tax-exempt issues. She is a co-author of the California Continuing Education of the Bar treatise, Advising California Nonprofit Corporations (Second Edition), and a past Chair of the Tax-Exempt Organizations Committee of the Taxation Section of the State Bar. Pamela has testified before the IRS on intermediate sanctions issues and regularly advocates on behalf of the charitable sector.

Education
University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 1986); Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences (B.A. with distinction in all subjects, 1980)

Memberships
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (Legal Committee); Bar Association of San Francisco; California State Bar (Tax-Exempt Organizations Committee, Tax Section, Past Chair); Aging Services of California (Legal Committee); California Association of Nonprofits