Document Review

We review your ministry’s governing documents to ensure you benefit as much as possible from the use of the religious freedom protections afforded by the law. This includes reviewing bylaws, policies, employment documents, and many others which may have religious freedom implications.

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policies to our team

Review

ADF attorneys review your documents and provide customized feedback with a strategy session.

Implement

Your ministry uses the strategy session to implement revised documents and policies to help provide greater protections.

Legal Representation

If necessary, we will represent your ministry in a religious freedom legal issue. This representation comes at no additional charge to our members (pro-bono), so that your ministry can stand and defend itself if ever that day comes.

We even help our members with media response – using our in-house legal communications team – in the midst of a religious freedom issue.

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Pro-bono help

Beyond the annual membership fee, religious freedom legal help from ADF is pro-bono

Legal representation

Writing letters, providing consultations, filing lawsuits, arguing before the court and more

Communications support

We help with media because telling your story makes a difference in the court of public opinion

How Does ADF Ministry Alliance Work?

ADF Ministry Alliance is a membership initiative that partners with like-minded ministries to help prepare and protect them in religious freedom legal matters.

Because ministries of all kinds may need help at one time or another, we use membership to keep your costs low. And, since religious freedom requires protection whether or not you have a current legal issue, your investment helps support those legal fights that are occurring right now. Helping these other ministries also defends your rights.

Membership also allows us to help prepare your ministry before a legal challenge happens, and, in some cases, even prevent legal issues for your ministry.

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Scope of Services

As an ADF Ministry Alliance member, you will receive:

Legal review of bylaws and policies that relate to protecting your ministry’s religious liberty
Direct access to attorneys to answer your questions about protecting your ministry’s religious liberty
Consultation for legal issues involving your ministry’s religious liberty (prior to litigation)
Legal representation in cases involving the ministry’s religious liberty, if necessary and appropriate: employment, land use, tax exemption, ministry member discipline/removal, government mandates or unconstitutional regulation, volunteer requirements, equal access to government property or benefits, requests to use ministry facilities
Specialized resources such as webinars and newsletters tailored to protecting the religious liberty of the ministry

ADF Ministry Alliance is not an insurance program and Alliance Defending Freedom is not an insurance company. ADF will typically represent ADF Ministry Alliance members in all litigation related to protecting the religious liberty of the ministry. However, ADF cannot guarantee legal representation in every situation and does not provide casualty payments for a lawsuit. Any legal representation undertaken by ADF is without cost to ADF Ministry Alliance members.

Some religious ministry legal matters involve administrative tribunals such as zoning boards and tax agencies. ADF normally does not appear as legal counsel before administrative agencies or administrative tribunals. ADF will assist in finding local counsel for administrative phases of legal matters that fall within the ADF Ministry Alliance scope of services, but we cannot guarantee that local counsel representation will be free of charge.

Matters ADF does not provide legal representation for include, but are not limited to:

Intra-ministry, inter-ministry, or denominational disputes or negotiations
Allegations of child abuse or criminal prosecutions unrelated to religious liberty
Tax advice, tax audits or investigations that do not relate to religious liberty
Start-up and filing requirements (e.g., 501(c)(3) applications, sales tax exemption applications, corporate filings)
Advice regarding corporate structure or general liability issues not related to religious liberty
General advice regarding government contracts or grant agreements
Drafting business contracts such as rental agreements or vendor contracts
International legal matters or compliance with international law
Land use cases will generally only be approved if discrimination or unequal treatment is present

ADF has the sole authority to determine whether a request for advice or representation falls within the scope of services offered.
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Alliance Defending Freedom reserves the right to terminate any membership agreements and/or add, change, or remove rules, conditions of membership, scope of services, and all services offered by and through ADF Ministry Alliance at any time and in its sole discretion. In the event of membership termination, Alliance Defending Freedom shall only be obligated to return to a former member any prepaid but unused membership dues, without penalty or interest.

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