Robert E. Harding

Tel: 612/632-3091
Fax: 612/632-4091
Attorney - Minneapolis
robert.harding@gpmlaw.com

Support Staff: Carol Saylor, 612/632-3318

Bob is a principal at Gray Plant Mooty and practices in the area of charitable gift planning. He represents colleges, universities, churches, health care organizations, social service agencies, arts organizations, and other nonprofit entities in developing and implementing gift plans for their donors. Bob chairs the firm’s Charitable Gift Planning Team. He is a regular speaker at regional, national, and international conferences on planned giving.

Bob completed his undergraduate study at Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1983. He was the Articles Editor of the Minnesota Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.

EXPERIENCE

Bob led a team of Gray Plant Mooty attorneys who reformed roughly 200 charitable remainder unitrusts to take advantage of a recent, favorable change in IRS regulations.

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Supercharging Planned Giving, Gray Plant Mooty's Higher Education Breakfast Briefing, March 6, 2007, Minneapolis, MN

Problem CRTs: Avoiding Them, Fixing Them, Ending Them, 2003 Minnesota State Bar Association Charitable Planning Institute, Minneapolis, MN

After the Fall: Current Issues in Planned Giving, 2003 Minnesota State Bar Association Probate & Trust Law Section Conference, Minneapolis, MN

All in the Family: Planned Giving and the Closely Held Business 2003 Minnesota Planned Giving Conference, St. Paul, MN

Modern Alchemy: Tax Leverage with Charitable Gifts of Retirement Accounts 2004 Minnesota State Bar Association Charitable Planning Institute, Minneapolis, MN

Elementary, My Dear Watson: Creative Solutions to Planned Giving Cases 2004 American Council on Gift Annuities Conference, Orlando, FL