Douglas K. Freeman, J.D., LL.M., is Senior Managing Director, First Foundation Advisors. In this capacity, he provides strategic planning and organizational management advice for business, nonprofit, foundation, and family clients. He is a noted, now retired, tax attorney and founder of the law firm, Freeman, Freeman & Smiley, LLP, located in Los Angeles and Irvine, California. In 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005, he was recognized by Worth magazine as among the 100 top attorneys in the United States, and, in 1999, he was featured by Bloomberg Financial as one of the nation?s leading estate planning attorneys. He is the founder of National Philanthropy Day, proclaimed by Congress and celebrated throughout the United States since 1986.