Atlantic Legal Foundation
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The Atlantic Legal Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest law firm with a demonstrable history of advancing the rule of law in courts and before administrative agencies by advocating for individual liberty, school choice, free enterprise, limited, effective government, and sound science in the courtroom. Atlantic Legal provides effective and decisive legal representation, without fee, to parents, scientists, educators, and other individuals, corporations and trade associations.
What's New
Monday, June 1, 2009
Atlantic Legal recently submitted an amicus brief in the California Court of Appeal on behalf of 16 distinguished scientists, including a Nobel laureate in Physics, a former director of the National Center for Toxicological Research, a former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, and a professor emeritus of .. [more]Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Atlantic Legal has released the fifth edition of its Leveling the Playing Field series. This edition focuses on union organizing techniques and employment practices in Michigan charters and was written in partnership by Jackson Lewis LLP and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Click here .. [more]Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Atlantic Legal has filed an amicus brief on the merits on behalf of several prominent legal and political science scholars, including well-known legal blogger and UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh and Abigail Thernstrom, Vice Chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, in support of petitioners in .. [more]Monday, April 6, 2009
Atlantic Legal's Annual Report for 2008 is now available. It outlines the many significant initiatives, new and ongoing, undertaken by the Foundation last year, and includes coverage of the Foundation's October 30 Litigation Program, co-sponsored with the New York City Bar Association, and 2008 Annual Award Dinner, honoring William .. [more]Atlantic Legal Program Areas
School ChoiceAtlantic Legal is a leader in the fight to ensure that parents have choices about where their children go to school. We are strong defenders of charter schools, advocating for school choice in the courts and educating the schools themselves about their rights.
A core component of Atlantic Legal's School Choice program is the website DefendCharterSchools.org. Please visit for more information.
Sound ScienceAs toxic tort, product liability and other litigation become increasingly prominent areas of law for the plaintiff's bar and increasingly significant for U.S. business and professional organizations, Atlantic Legal Foundation is fighting tirelessly and successfully to guarantee that the expert medical and other testimony upon which such cases depend is grounded on scientific methods and genuinely reliable.
Constitutional IssuesAtlantic Legal Foundation's activities concerning important issues of federal and state constitutional law have included participation in important cases involving: Free Speech, Equal Protection, Due Process, Federalism, Separation of Powers, Property Rights, arbitrary and capricious exercise of governmental power, as well as the interplay between U.S. Law and International Law.
Corporate GovernanceAtlantic Legal does invaluable work in the area of corporate governance, working hard to protect America's economic prosperity by battling intrusive regulations and activist courts while insisting that corporations make themselves more openly accountable to customers and shareholders.