David "Rosebud" Sparer has been an attorney in Madison Wisconsin since 1979. He lived in a housing co-op for 18 years. During the more than 30 years he has been an attorney he has focused on representing and assisting cooperatives and nonprofits. He has assisted housing co-ops, grocery co-ops, farmer co-ops, and worker co-ops, with everything from initial organizing, negotiating leases, litigation, contract negotiations to purchasing or selling real estate, and dealing with zoning. During this time he represented housing co-ops all over the country in obtaining nonprofit status.
