Category: In the Community

How to Join a Board of Directors

NEW YORK - When Hayley Woodin was thinking of giving back to the community while taking her career to the next level, one option stood out: serving ...

How to Help: Turkey + Syria Earthquake

Images of February's devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have flooded news feeds, and at Laird Norton Wealth Management, we’ve fielded man...

The Word of 2022 Is…

Excerpted from The Economist:  The story of a year is sometimes easy to identify: the financial crisis of 2008, the Brexit-Trump populist wave of 2...

LNWM & WAM: A Platform for Creating Shared Value in 2023 and Beyond

"Employees are our only asset... Coming out of the pandemic, coming out of two mergers and the markets are really tumultuous right now, we decided t...

Theory of Change: A Philosophy to Shape Your Giving

 With so many requests to give, it’s no wonder many people are searching for more direction. While disaster relief, school fundraisers and chari...

To Our Clients, Staff and Communities: Thank You All!

We are as grateful as ever for our wonderful clients, our team members throughout the U.S. including our offices in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Ange...

Women of Influence: Kristen Bauer, Laird Norton

CEO Kristen Bauer Named Women of Influence Honoree

Congratulations to Kristen Bauer, the CEO of LNWM and our sister company Wetherby Asset Management, for being named to the Puget Sound Business Jour...

529 Plans by Non-Parents and the New FAFSA

Labor Day weekend marks the start of another school year, with many parents and grandparents thinking about how best to fund education for kids that...