Mid-Atlantic Law Project
EST. 2024 • Washington, DC • Chicago • Global Reach
Institutional Mission
The Mid-Atlantic Law Project is an independent, non-partisan institution dedicated to open-access legal education, evidence-based research, and public advocacy. Founded in 2024 and under the direction of Daniel J. Conidi, Esquire since January 1, 2025, the Project operates at the intersection of empirical investigative methodology and federal legal scholarship — with a singular purpose: making high-level legal knowledge freely available to the people who need it most.
The American legal system is complex, expensive, and deliberately difficult to navigate without professional guidance. A single hour with a qualified immigration attorney costs what many working families earn in a day. A removal defense can cost more than a year’s income. A personal injury claim, improperly handled, is worth a fraction of what it should be. The Mid-Atlantic Law Project exists because the gap between what the law says and what most people are able to do with that knowledge is not acceptable — and because the people best positioned to close that gap are the practitioners who have spent careers working inside the system.
“Legal knowledge should not cost what legal representation costs. We are here to close that gap.”
The Mid-Atlantic Law Project provides the kind of substantive, practitioner-grade legal education that was once available only to those who could afford a private attorney — free, in English and Spanish, to anyone who needs it. Quality legal education is expensive to produce. It is here because the communities that need it most are the ones who can least afford to pay for it.
What We Do
Free Publications
A growing bilingual library of legal reference books written by practicing federal attorneys — covering immigration, naturalization, marriage-based immigration, and personal injury law. Available in English and Spanish at no cost, in PDF and EPUB formats. No registration. No paywall. No conditions.
Legal Research & Analysis
Ongoing analysis of federal immigration law, enforcement policy, BIA and circuit court decisions, and the gap between statutory law and real-world administrative practice. Research made available free to the public, legal aid organizations, and community advocates.
Free Video Legal Education
A free video library of legal explainers, know-your-rights guides, and practitioner-narrated walkthroughs of the most critical legal situations facing immigrant communities and working families. In English and Spanish. Coming 2026.
Affordable Law Study
For those who want to go beyond the books, the Mid-Atlantic School of Law offers serious, affordable legal study — at a fraction of the cost of traditional legal education. Because cost should never be the barrier to understanding the law that governs your life.
The MALP Free Library
Every book below is free. No registration. No paywall. No conditions. Click the button, the PDF opens in Google Drive, and you download it directly to your device. These books were written by practicing attorneys and former federal law enforcement professionals — and they are here because the communities that need them most should never have to pay to access them.
Yes, to US
A Complete Guide to Marriage-Based Immigration
The New American
A Complete Guide to United States Naturalization
Recovery and Rights
A Complete Guide for Personal Injury Victims
The Security Consultant’s Playbook
A Field Guide to Security Assessments, Risk, Protection, and Liability
Research Initiative
The Mid-Atlantic Law Project conducts original legal research at the intersection of immigration enforcement, criminal law, and public policy — with a focus on how the law actually operates in the lives of the people it governs, not merely how it reads on the page. Our research is informed by decades of federal investigative practice and federal court immigration litigation. Not academic theory. Operational experience.
Current Research Areas
- Enforcement trends under the Laken Riley Act and the practical impact on lawful permanent residents
- The criminal-immigration nexus — how criminal charges create consequences that dwarf the underlying offense
- Administrative detention patterns, coerced abandonment of LPR status, and third-country removal
- The public charge chilling effect — documenting voluntary disenrollment from legally available benefits
- USCIS adjudication trends, processing delays, and enforcement-driven resource allocation
- Marriage-based immigration fraud patterns and the evolution of consular processing risk profiles
- The gap between state marijuana legalization and federal immigration consequences for noncitizens
MALP research is available free of charge to the public, legal aid organizations, law school clinics, and community advocates. Researchers, practitioners, and organizations interested in collaborating on MALP research initiatives may contact us at info@midatlanticlaw.org.
Executive Leadership
Daniel J. Conidi, Esquire — Founding Director
Daniel J. Conidi is the founding Director of the Mid-Atlantic Law Project and the founding and managing partner of Alliant Law Group, LLC, where he concentrates his practice in immigration law and federal criminal defense. He has practiced immigration law and federal criminal defense for 14 years, and served for over 26 years as a Senior Special Agent with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice. He is admitted to the D.C. Bar, the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar, and the U.S. Tax Court.
Mr. Conidi founded the Mid-Atlantic Law Project to address a gap he encountered repeatedly in his legal practice: clients who had made life-altering decisions — about immigration filings, criminal exposure, real estate transactions, and personal injury claims — without any reliable legal information to guide them. The Project exists to close that gap.
The Mid-Atlantic Law Project is a growing institution built on a simple conviction: that access to justice begins with access to knowledge. Its leadership, advisory board, contributing authors, research fellows, and faculty reflect a network of practicing attorneys, former federal law enforcement professionals, legal educators, and community advocates — all committed to making the legal system more accessible to those it most directly affects.
Join Us
The Mid-Atlantic Law Project is built on the principle that legal knowledge should be freely available — and that the people best positioned to make it available are the practitioners, educators, and researchers who have lived it. The work is free. The mission is real. The need is urgent. We welcome contributors who share that conviction.
- Contributing Authors — Practicing attorneys and legal professionals who want to contribute to the MALP publication library in any area of law relevant to our communities.
- Research Fellows — Law students and legal professionals interested in contributing to MALP research initiatives, including enforcement trend analysis and policy research.
- Advisory Board — Senior practitioners, academics, and public interest advocates who wish to provide institutional guidance as the Project grows.
- Video Faculty — Attorneys and legal professionals interested in contributing to the MALP free video library — explaining the law in plain language to the communities that need it most.
- Language Access — Bilingual legal professionals who can help expand the MALP library beyond English and Spanish to serve additional language communities.
- Community Partners — Legal aid organizations, community advocacy groups, and institutions that wish to distribute MALP resources to the communities they serve.