Rader, Helge & Gerson

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Rader, Helge & Gerson was a small law firm in Pasadena, California that was formed in the 1970s. It was created by Stanley Rader as a subsidiary of Worldwide Church of God and was intended to handle the legal affairs of the Church, its employees and ministers. Virtually the entire firm was composed of church members. After Rader withdrew from involvement with Worldwide, the firm changed its name to Ralph K. Helge and Associates. As the Church shrank in the 1990s, the firm gradually downsized as well, giving up its separate suite of offices in downtown Pasadena for more modest accomidations in an unused building on the former campus of Ambassador College. As of 2006, Ralph K. Helge had retired, the entire staff had been gradually laid off, and Bernard Schnippert had assumed the duties of being the Church's general counsel. Currently the firm no longer exists and the Church's own legal department handles all such matters.