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Ten Tips for Keeping Your Faith Community Out of Legal Trouble - UPDATED July 2025

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Guidance for churches, dioceses, synagogues, mosques, and other faith communities to avoid exposure to common legal liabilities. Faith communities face many legal challenges common to for-profit businesses, along with a...more

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5 Considerations to Prepare Your Organization to Address Known or Future Concerns Around Sexual Abuse and Harassment

Many faith communities across the spectrum are taking a breath and asking themselves hard questions after this week’s release of the investigative report into the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee conducted by...more

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Proposed Legislation Seeks To Extend The CVA Revival Window For One Additional Year

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Synopsis: Almost a year after the New York State Legislature enacted the Child Victim Act or “CVA” in February 2019 -- which included a one-year “revival window” under which claims for child sexual abuse could be brought...more

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The Significant Ramifications of New York’s Child Victim Act

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Child Victim Act is now law and will have a significant impact on New York’s educational and religious institutions and other civic organizations that care for children....more

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The Child Victim Act: Latest Developments As the Legislature Convenes

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Democrats now control both houses of the New York Legislature as well as the Governor’s office. A host of legislation may be in the offing. One expected piece of legislation will be passage of the Child...more

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Voluntary Church Members Packing in Church

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Reverend Leatl Hope, pastor of the First Church of the Boring Seventh Day Adventist Church in Gun Barrel City has been reading about the deadly shootings in churches all over the country, and he is worried. His small...more

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