Yael Fuchs believes that a culture of good governance is integral to an organization’s ability to accomplish its important work, and she is committed to assisting organizations in creating and fostering the practices that form that culture – from strong policies and procedures, to effective training programs and responses to crisis. Before joining Sedreddine & Whoriskey, Yael served as the Co-Section Chief of the Charities Bureau Enforcement Section, where she oversaw the efforts of the Charities Bureau to investigate and litigate violations of New York laws governing not-for-profits. Yael also worked with the sector to improve compliance and governance. In her decade-plus role as a charities regulator, Yael led such notable matters as the investigation and litigation against the Trump Foundation, which resulted in the dissolution of the Foundation, admissions of breaches of fiduciary duty and court-awarded damages of $2 million, which were distributed to other charities; leading the Bureau’s oversight of charitable fundraising in the wake of disasters; and successful mediation of long-running litigation between two charities that resulted in the conservation of an architecturally significant property and major savings of legal fees. Yael also served as the President of the National Association of State Charities Officials from 2019 through 2022, an adjunct professor at the Cardozo School of Law from 2015-2018, and is widely recognized as a nationwide leader in the field of charities regulation, speaking frequently on state charities regulation and good governance. Yael graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in 1998, and from Columbia University School of Law in 2005. She started her career as an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. She is admitted to practice in New York.