Las Vegas Defense Lawyers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454472159
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3126986207
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,217
- Expenses
- $48,898
- Assets
- $34,917
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Lowry (President)
- Karissa Mack ended 32024 (President)
- Julie Funai (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Michael Lowry (President)
- Karissa Mack ended 32024 (President)
- Julie Funai (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Las Vegas Defense Lawyers is a professional organization of civil defense attorneys who provide counsel to civil litigants. Among the organization's civic goals are: fostering mutual education and the exchange of ideas with fellow defense counsel in the City of Las Vegas and Clark County; providing balanced defense perspectives in matters of civil defense; promoting cooperation and civility among fellow counsel; improving the public perception of civil defense attorneys through service and education to the community; establishing and maintaining standards of professional conduct; and, seeking to benefit the public by giving voice to the defense perspective and advocacy through the Nevada State legislature and amicus briefs.
What it reported doing in 2024
An important aspect of LVDL's mission is to ensure the civil defense bar is well-educated in changes in the law, legal techniques, and constantly evolving technology in the legal field. In order to ensure our clients receive the best defense available, it is necessary to remain on the cutting edge of these areas. To that end, LVDL holds monthly continuing legal education classes which feature justices, judges, prominent attorneys, experts, and important legal groups.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -73.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 43.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.