On September 26, Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative hosted a “Careers in Religious Liberty” discussion with a panel of accomplished attorneys who have addressed religious liberty questions in a variety of settings, including nonprofit organizations, universities, the federal government, and private law firms. The event offered students a deep understanding of different career pathways that tightly interweave law and faith, as well as the motivations behind the panelists’ pursuit of their respective careers.
The panelists included Jennie Bradley Lichter, deputy general counsel at The Catholic University of America and senior legal fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute; Mike McGinley, partner at Dechert LLP; Brendan Wilson, partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and adjunct professor at NDLS; and Genevieve Kelly, chief of enforcement and case management within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. John Meiser, supervising attorney of the Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic, moderated the discussion.
Lichter kicked off the panel discussion by reflecting on the training and skills necessary to be a successful in-house lawyer in a religious nonprofit setting. She advised that working in-house requires an attorney to get comfortable giving concrete legal advice in a way that is easy for non-lawyers to understand and act upon, and to develop the ability to discern quickly which issues to linger over. “...
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