Bruce R. Hopkins was the principal in the Bruce R. Hopkins Law Firm, LLC, Kansas City, Missouri. He concentrated his practice on the representation of tax-exempt organizations. His practice ranged over the entirety of law matters involving exempt organizations, with emphasis on the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, governance, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint venture planning, tax shelter involvement, review of annual information returns, the law of charitable giving, and fundraising law issues.

Mr. Hopkins served as chair of the Committee on Exempt Organizations, Tax Section, American Bar Association; chair, Section of Taxation, National Association of College and University Attorneys; and president, Planned Giving Study Group of Greater Washington, DC.

Mr. Hopkins was the series editor of Wiley's Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series. In addition to coauthoring The Law of Fundraising, Sixth Edition, he was the author of The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Twelfth Edition; The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Sixth Edition; The Tax Law of Private Foundations, Fifth Edition; The Planning Guide for the Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Strategies and Commentaries; Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Law Library (e-book); Tax-Exempt Organizations and Constitutional Law: Nonprofit Law as Shaped by the U.S. Supreme Court; Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Law Dictionary; IRS Audits of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Policies, Practices, and Procedures; The Tax Law of Associations; The Tax Law of Unrelated Business for Nonprofit Organizations; The Nonprofits' Guide to Internet Communications Law; The Law of Intermediate Sanctions: A Guide for Nonprofits; Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide, Seventh Edition; Nonprofit Law Made Easy; Charitable Giving Law Made Easy; Private Foundation Law Made Easy; 650 Essential Nonprofit Law Questions Answered; The First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers; The Second Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers; The Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations; and The Second Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations. He is the coauthor, with Thomas K. Hyatt, of The Law of Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations, Fourth Edition; with David O. Middlebrook, of Nonprofit Law for Religious Organizations: Essential Questions and Answers; with Douglas K. Anning, Virginia C. Gross, and Thomas J. Schenkelberg, of The New Form 990: Law, Policy and Preparation; with Ms. Gross, of Nonprofit Governance: Law, Practices, and Trends; and with Ms. Gross and Mr. Schenkelberg, of Nonprofit Law for Colleges and Universities: Essential Questions and Answers for Officers, Directors, and Advisors. He also wrote Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Counsel, a monthly newsletter, published by John Wiley & Sons.

Mr. Hopkins maintained a website providing information about the law of tax-exempt organizations, at www.brucerhopkinsbooks.com. Material posted on this site includes a current developments outline concerning this aspect of the law, discussions of his books, and various indexes that accompany his newsletter.

Mr. Hopkins received the 2007 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award (Vanguard Lifetime Achievement Award) from the American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, Committee on Nonprofit Corporations. He was listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Nonprofit Organizations/Charities Law, 2007–2021.

Mr. Hopkins was the Professor from Practice at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he taught courses on the law of tax-exempt organizations.

Mr. Hopkins earned his JD and LLM degrees at the George Washington University, his SJD at the University of Kansas, and his BA at the University of Michigan. He was a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the state of Missouri.

Alicia M. Beck is the Philanthropy Director at UMB Bank in Kansas City, Missouri. She is responsible for building long-term client relationships by assisting individual clients, families, and prospects with charitable planning and planned giving options that enable them to have a long-term community as part of their legacy. Prior to UMB, Alicia was an attorney in the law firm of Polsinelli PC, practicing in the firm's Kansas City, Missouri, office. She specializes in advising both nonprofit and for-profit entities. Her clients include national hospital systems, research organizations, private foundations, colleges, universities, associations, social welfare organizations, and governmental entities. Ms. Beck assisted these clients with formation, structure, and operational issues, including fundraising regulation. She also has experience with various tax restructuring issues relating to international entities.

Ms. Beck received her JD degree from the University of Kansas School of Law. Ms. Beck received an LLM in taxation from Northwestern University. She received a BA in Supply and Value Chain Management from Texas Christian University. She is a member of the bars of the states of Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri. Ms. Beck has been involved in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and has served on the Board of Directors for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Variety, The Children's Charity.