Nancy Durand, Esq.
Founder & Principal Governance Architect
In her legal practice, Nancy works at the point where law, authority, and accountability intersect. She helps boards understand and exercise their fiduciary duties, structures internal investigations, navigates sensitive personnel matters, and guides organizations through moments that test governance integrity. Her reputation is grounded in legal precision and real-world experience, bringing clarity to complex facts and steady counsel when the stakes are high.
Nancy created Good Works Legal Solutions after recognizing a structural problem: small and mid-sized nonprofits often cannot access ongoing legal support at the level their responsibilities require. Rather than waiting for crises to trigger expensive intervention, she built a preventive platform focused on strengthening governance and legal health upstream. Through structured education, diagnostics, and capacity-building programs, she helps nonprofit leaders reduce avoidable risk and lead with greater clarity. Her work reflects a simple conviction, governance is not bureaucracy. It is how leaders protect their people, their mission, and the public trust.
Nancy Durand is a nonprofit attorney and governance strategist with nearly two decades of legal experience. She advises mission-driven organizations across the full lifecycle, from formation and tax exemption through restructuring, leadership transition, and dissolution.
She leads a nonprofit law practice focused on nonprofit law, employment and workforce matters, internal investigations, and complex organizational risk. Boards and executive leaders turn to her when decisions carry legal consequences, when disputes require careful handling, or when regulatory exposure demands experienced judgment and disciplined analysis.
My Credentials
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Juris Doctor, St. John's University School of Law, Moot Court Honor Society Board
Master of Science, Nonprofit Administration, Development Track, Louisiana State University
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Howard University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
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New York State Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. Tax Court
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Facilitative Mediation, NYSBA
Transformative Mediation, HAAS
Workplace Investigations, SHRM
Nonprofit Board Consulting, BoardSource

