PHILADELPHIA – Stradley Ronon Partner Mark E. Chopko served as a panelist at the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities’ Catholic Mission Institute for New Presidents on Jan. 28 in Washington, DC. Chopko’s panel, “All Things Mission: Hiring for Mission and Formation for Faculty and Staff,” discussed hiring, internal operations and the protection of a religious employer’s rights and expectations in the workplace.
Chopko chairs Stradley Ronon’s nonprofit and religious organizations practice group and advises clients, including colleges and universities, in matters involving structural, business, governance, regulatory and complex litigation. He also teaches a seminar on church-state law at Georgetown University Law Center. A former general counsel for the U.S. Conference on Catholic Bishops, he has participated in more than 30 Supreme Court cases as counsel for religious groups in friend-of-the-Court briefs.
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