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… exists to help best prepare and protect churches in the U.S. by providing affordable, religious liberty legal services. … and provide advice, and even represent your church in court if necessary and appropriate. Learn more at … to best prepare and protect them—even advocating on behalf of ministries in court if necessary and …

… Defending Freedom, Sears led all strategic initiatives from 1993-2017. In his 23 years at the helm, he built an ADF team … term. Under Sears’ leadership, ADF attorneys won more than three out of four cases in which they participated and …

… City trial attorney defending churches and ministries from trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1981, Mike … of Columbia, Mo. v. Comer , “the playground case.” In 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Mike’s … for the Missouri Baptist Convention and recently won three cases restoring three Missouri Baptist agencies to …

… 19 of those as a partner in the litigation department. In 2017, he took early retirement from Cravath in order to devote his energies to advancing … addition, he filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil …

… Writer for Alliance Defending Freedom in the organization's Scottsdale, Arizona, office. He holds a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah and a master of arts in theology … Advocates for Faith and Freedom, and his personal blog, the Religion and Politics Blog . … Neal Hardin serves …

… Hirsch clerked for Justice Clint Bolick of the Arizona Supreme Court. She then joined ADF as a litigation fellow for … cum laude with departmental honors in political economy from Hillsdale College in 2016 and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2019. She is a 2017 Blackstone Fellow and a member of the state bar of …

… of precedent-setting matters and 74 victories at the U.S. Supreme Court, including serving as lead or co-counsel alongside ADF … of which have set national and multinational precedents. From 2018 to 2021, Kilmartin was a senior executive service …

… as deputy solicitor general for the state of Missouri from 2017 to 2020 and as assistant solicitor general for the … National Association of Attorneys General for her U.S. Supreme Court advocacy. Before entering government service in …

… students and professors. Lorence argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the precedent-setting  Southworth v. Board …  (2018),  Masterpiece Cakeshop (2018),  Trinity Lutheran  (2017),  Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Wood  (2015), as well as other … American Center for Law and Justice. Lorence earned a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and received a …

… and California.  He earned a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from … Harvard Law School. After graduate school, he served for three years as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, including combat duty in Vietnam.  During …