Blackstone Legal Fellowship

ADF co-founder and president Alan Sears said that the program's goal was to put Christian lawyers into "positions of influence, thereby impacting the legal culture and keeping the door open for the Gospel.

[3] In 2012, when Sears was asked about the major achievements of ADF, he said "among the things I am most thankful for are our Blackstone Legal Fellowship graduates.

"[6] Students spend two weeks of classroom training on legal philosophy, constitutional interpretation and jurisprudence, and Christian worldview development.

[3][7] Afterward, they complete "field placement" summer internships at government offices, law firms, public interest advocacy groups and corporations.

[3] In 2017, President Donald Trump's nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Amy Coney Barrett, was criticized by Senator Al Franken for teaching constitutional law at Blackstone.