Services for Religious Organizations

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Cemetery Law

• Advise and assist in resolving disputes including those regarding burial rights, marker placement, and other decisions involving interment and cemetery lots
  
• Real estate purchase and sale, advise on use and procedures regarding cemetery real estate
• Management of cemetery funds
  
• Corporate structure, including corporate documents and relationship with other religious organization
  

Attorneys practicing in this area:
Charles M. Bichler

Commercial Real Estate

• Purchase and Sale
• Construction
• Mortgages and Foreclosure
• Leases
• Zoning
• Title Examinations
• Quiet Title actions
• Closings
• Management

Attorneys practicing in this area:
Charles M. Bichler
Leo H. Dehler - of Counsel

Constitutional & Religious Freedom Law

• Defense of religious liberty rights and protections under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and under the State of Minnesota Constitution
  
• Defense of Minnesota Human Rights Act Claims
  

Attorneys practicing in this area:
Thomas B. Wieser
John C. Gunderson

Employment Law & Defense of Discrimination Claims

• Employment Contracts - Drafting, Review, Advising
  
• Employee benefits
• Defense of employment discrimination claims (age, disability, national origin, sex, race, marital status, religion, etc.)
• Affirmative action
• Sexual harassment
• Wrongful discharge
• Whistleblower litigation
  
• Americans With Disabilities Act
• Family and Medical Leave Act

Attorneys practicing in this area:
Thomas B. Wieser
John C. Gunderson

Pension & Employee Benefit Plans for Small Employers

• Advise on retirement plans
• Non-discrimination and privacy rules under HIPAA
  
• ERISA and Internal Revenue Code compliance
  
• Advise regarding withdrawal from multiemployer pension plans

Attorneys practicing in this area:
Charles M. Bichler
Leo H. Dehler - of Counsel

Religious Immigration

• Specialized in religious immigration for individuals and religious organizations
• Non-immigrant Religious Worker Visa (I-129)
  
• Special Immigrant Religious Worker Visa (I-360)
  
• Extension of stay, change of status, etc.
• Serving ministers, nuns, friars, monks, and other religious workers individually and through their potential employer (parish, diocese, friary, etc.)

Attorneys practicing in this area:
Charles M. Bichler

School & Education Law

• Advise independent and religious elementary high schools
• Draft, review, and amend school documents, including bylaws, employment agreements, contracts for goods and services, leases, and other business-related issues
  
• Counsel on student discipline and discharge
• Draft, review, and advise on student and faculty handbooks
• Consult regarding student and staff misconduct investigations and related matters
  

Attorneys practicing in this area:
Thomas B. Wieser
John C. Gunderson