2025 Nonprofit Summit speaker

Casey Hale

Casey Hale is a partner with the Orange County, California law firm of Brown & Streza, LLP. He serves as legal counsel to private foundations, churches and religious organizations, charitable organizations, supporting organizations, and hybrid organizations advising them on the unique legal, corporate, and tax issues they face.

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Casey’s representation includes, among other things, legal counsel regarding organizational governance matters, structuring and operating subsidiaries and joint ventures, international grantmaking and operations, intellectual property matters, executive compensation/intermediate sanctions (including minister compensation), unrelated business taxable income, and property tax exemption issues.

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Casey earned his J.D. from Whittier Law School. Before pursuing a law degree, he served in the United States Army as a Russian linguist.

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Casey completed his undergraduate work at Vanguard University of Southern California majoring in Cultural Anthropology with a concentration in Archeology. He has worked on archeological projects in Israel at Tel Dor; in Hawai’i at Koloko-Honokahou National Historic Park and The John Young Homestead at Pu’ukohola Heiau; and in Orange County, California on Gabrieliño (Tongva) and Juaneño (Acjachemen) sites at Crystal Cove, Newport Coast, and Huntington Beach.