Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner Matthew Martens is no stranger to quick turnarounds for religious liberty cases: He once got a call at 9 p.m. asking for his help filing a brief by 10 a.m. the next day on behalf of a Jewish Chabad organization ahead of Yom Kippur and managed to meet the deadline.

That experience in religious liberty litigation came to Marten’s advantage in recent weeks as he, joined by WilmerHale senior associate Kevin Gallager and associates Hyun-Soo Lim and Andrew Miller, worked with the First Liberty Institute and others to challenge restrictions to church services during the COVID-19 pandemic.