Lisa A. Runquist, Esq.
Lisa has practiced law with both nonprofit organizations and business organizations since her admission to the Minnesota Bar in 1977 and to the California Bar in 1978. Lisa is a graduate from Hamline University, where she received her B.A. in Philosophy, and the University of Minnesota Law School.
Lisa is a prolific writer and is the author of the recently released guidebook The ABCs of Nonprofits, published in April 2005 by the American Bar Association, Business Law Section.(Click here to read a review by Stephen Nill, founder of CharityChannel.) She has also written numerous articles and contributed extensively to professional literature regarding nonprofit organizations, and is regarded as an expert in the area of nonprofit organizational law. Lisa was the first recipient of the Outstanding Lawyer Award by the ABA Business Law Section, a Nonprofit Lawyers Award.
When she's not working, writing, or speaking, Lisa trains and competes regularly with Charlie, Jazz, & Zippy, standard poodles, in agility, obedience and rally events around Southern California and across the country.
Lisa is AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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Patrick B. Sternal, J.D., LL.M.
Patrick completed the Graduate Tax Program at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, in May 2005, receiving his LL.M. with high distinction. He received his J.D. in May 2003 from Ave Maria School of Law. He was a Senior Editor of the Ave Maria Law Review and a member of the Business Law Society.
Patrick graduated in 1993 from Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California, with a B.A. Liberal Arts, and taught middle school science prior to undertaking his legal education.
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Other Associates
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