PROVIDENCE, RI, October 3, 2025 – Partridge Snow & Hahn (PSH), a full-service business law and litigation firm, announces that Elizabeth O. Manchester has received the 2025 “Top Women of Law” honor from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. This highly coveted honor celebrates the achievements of exceptional women lawyers who are pioneers, educators, trailblazers and role models. Manchester and fellow honorees will be recognized at an awards ceremony on November 18 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. To view the full list of 2025 honorees, visit here.
As Chair of the PSH Nonprofit & Tax-Exempt Practice Group, Manchester represents tax-exempt entities, centered on compliance, formation, charitable gift planning issues and best practices. She has extensive experience assisting institutions with the inception of planned giving programs, as well as corporate governance matters and maintenance of tax-exempt status. Manchester advises charitable institutions and institutions of higher learning about tax benefits available to donors, to assist in discussions with donors to appropriately advance the organization’s mission.
Serving as external general counsel for public charities and private foundations, Manchester advises nonprofits regarding board education and training, fiduciary obligation advice, compliance, donor representation, endowment fund management, finance, Form 990, reporting issues, governance, joint ventures, affiliations and litigation prevention. In addition, she advises nonprofits regarding managing bequests and complex gifts for organizations, mergers and acquisitions, obtaining and maintaining tax exemptions, policies, political and lobbying restrictions and tax. Manchester has been ranked by Chambers USA in Corporate Law, and also recognized by Best Lawyers, Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in the areas of Nonprofit and Higher Education law. She serves on the Board of Directors for the White Family Foundation and is an adjunct professor of business law at Providence College.
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