Robert Saunders

Robert Saunders (Law ’87) has been named a 2014 Lawyer of the Year for nonprofit and charities law by Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Saunders is a partner in the Greensboro, N.C., office of Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard, where his practice focuses on tax-exempt organizations, tax-exempt financing and state and local tax planning. He is also an adjunct professor of nonprofit law at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and serves as vice chairman for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce and as vice chair of the Carrboro Economic Sustainability Commission.