Mr. Douglas Freeman is Senior Managing Director of First Foundation Advisors, and a member of the Board of Directors of First Foundation Inc. and First Foundation Bank. He was a Founding Partner of Freeman, Freeman & Smiley, a 50-attorney firm with locations in Los Angeles and Irvine, California.

Mr. Freeman provides strategic planning and organizational management advice for business, nonprofit, foundation, and high-net-worth family and individual clients. From 2005 through 2008, 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; founder of the American Institute for Philanthropy; and co-founder of the National Committee on Planned Giving.

Mr. Freeman is the author of three books and over 30 articles and treatises including “The Legacy Family: The Definitive Guide to Creating a Successful Multigenerational Family” and the “Founder’s Guide to the Family Foundation.”

Mr. Freeman is a graduate of Stanford University (A.B. with Distinction, 1967), University of California at Los Angeles (J.D., 1970), and the University of San Diego (LL.M. in Taxation, 1984). Until retirement, Mr. Freeman was designated a Certified Specialist in Taxation under the State Bar of California.

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