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Services for Religious Organizations


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
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Meier, Kennedy & Quinn, Chartered
​445 Minnesota Street 
Suite 2200
Saint Paul, MN 55101
Phone: (651) 228-1911
Fax: (651) 223-5483