Defending Individual Liberty, Free Enterprise & Sound Science Since 1977
The Atlantic Legal Foundation advocates in the nation’s appellate courts for individual liberty, free enterprise, property rights, limited and responsible government, sound science in judicial and regulatory proceedings, and effective education, including parental rights and school choice.
About Atlantic Legal Foundation
Founded in 1977 and nearing our 50th year advocating for civil justice, the Atlantic Legal Foundation is a national, nonprofit, public interest law firm whose mission is to advance the rule of law by advocating for individual liberty, free enterprise, property rights, limited and responsible government, sound science in judicial and regulatory proceedings, and effective education, including parental rights and school choice. With the benefit of guidance from the legal scholars, former government officials, corporate legal officers, private practitioners, business executives, and prominent scientists who serve on its Board of Directors and Advisory Council, the Foundation pursues its mission by participating as amicus curiae in carefully selected appeals before the Supreme Court of the United States, federal courts of appeals, and state supreme courts.
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Brett A. Shumate
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Former Partner, Jones Day
Our Mission Areas
Individual Liberty
Free Enterprise
Property Rights
Limited Government
Sound Science
Effective Education
ALF Amicus Curiae Program
With the benefit of guidance from the legal scholars, former government officials, corporate legal officers, private practitioners, business executives, and prominent scientists who serve on its Board of Directors and Advisory Council, the Foundation pursues its mission primarily by participating as amicus curiae in carefully selected appeals in the Supreme Court of the United States, federal courts of appeals, and state appellate courts.
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Latest News from Atlantic Legal Foundation
ALF 2025 Awards Dinner Honors Darren W. Woods, Chairman & CEO, Exxon Mobil Corporation, America’s largest investor-owned oil and gas company
Friday, October 10, 2025 | Houston, Texas
The Atlantic Legal Foundation was honored to recognize Darren W. Woods, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation, as its 35th Annual Honoree at a reception and dinner held on October 10th in the Grand Ballroom of The Junior League of Houston, attended by 200 guests.
Mahmoud v. Taylor and the Clash of Orthodoxies
By Sarah Parshall Perry, Vice President &
Senior Legal Fellow, Defending Education
In Mahmoud and beyond, the enduring nature of religious belief will always yield “vestiges of dissent.” As culture lurches toward the expansion of gender identitarianism, as education evolves, as advocacy for new “sexual orientations” burgeons, the eternal and enduring will always stand in inconvenient opposition to the march
of time.
James Madison: The ‘OG’ of DOGE
By Donald J. Kochan, Professor, Antonin Scalia Law School & Member, ALF Advisory Council
“The modern regulatory state as it has evolved, especially in the past 90 years since the New Deal, has resulted in a set of legal rules for the citizenry, regularly generated by bureaucrats rather than legislators, that are impossible to comprehend because, as Madison warned, they have become, collectively ‘so voluminous that they cannot be read.’”
How to Make the Most of the Rule 702 Amendments
By Eric G. Lasker, Elyse A. Shimada, and Shannon N. Proctor – Partners, Hollingsworth LLP
On December 1, 2023, Federal Rule of Evidence 702 was amended for the first time in twenty- three years to address what the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules (“Advisory Committee”) identified as widespread recalcitrance by many federal courts to correctly fulfilling their gatekeeping responsibility against unreliable expert evidence in the courtroom.