The Alliance Defense Fund is the only legal ministry in the United States that provides regular, extensive, and top-level training through an accredited academy program to help practicing attorneys successfully defend and reclaim religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and traditional family values.
Through our
National Litigation Academy (NLA) program, attorneys are trained in each of these areas of law. In return for the training, which is provided at no cost, each attorney makes a faith commitment to provide 450 hours of pro-bono time to the Body of Christ.
The
Blackstone Legal Fellowship is another key element of our long-term efforts to reclaim this nation’s judicial system. Law students receive intensive training in Christian worldview principles and how they apply to the study and interpretation of law. In addition, they receive hands-on experience working with legal and public policy allies of ADF.
However, this is just the beginning. To level the playing field against such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union, which reports it has more than 2,000 volunteer attorneys, ADF must continue to recruit and train more and more attorneys, as well as mentor a new generation of young men and women who will be the defenders of religious liberty in the future.