Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute @HamLincLaw is hiring attorneys!
If your BigLaw firm only does left-wing pro bono or sneers at your @FedSoc membership, if you’ve billed 250 hours this month on discovery that will never matter and would prefer spending more time with your family, about the law from first principles instead of writing kitchen-sink briefs you know are tendentious—read on.
We’re looking for strong writers who are smart, self-starting, computer-literate, detail-oriented, and can work independently from home in a flat organization; who hate rent-seeking and love the free market; who have BigLaw-or-government-litigation or clerkship experience; who know the difference between abuse of discretion and de novo review; who read judicial opinions, Garner, and Volokh for fun; who can do their own ECF filing; and who want to be thrown in the deep end. You have opinions about typography, and hate cy pres, rent-seeking, and DEI nonsense. You noticed this paragraph used “rent-seeking” twice and wanted to edit it.
Our last six attorneys went to Chicago, Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, and UCLA Law. Our alumni have had four presidential nominations to super-cool Senate-confirmed positions; one became a state SG. We can’t promise that you’ll be up for the Fifth Circuit in 2038 if you work for us, but it apparently doesn’t hurt much.
We're known for our class-action objections that are taught in 1L and have gone to the Supreme Court and won hundreds of millions for consumers and shareholders, but we’ve also successfully challenged FCC abuses in the D.C. Circuit, regularly beat California in First Amendment lawsuits, won a settlement for a client against a top law school’s DEI program, are challenging a Virginia anti-landlord law, are suing left-wing NGOs engaging in civil terrorism, and are expanding our public-interest wings. Maybe you have ideas for our next lawsuit.
Junior attorneys get first-chair work in federal court if they want it. Most HLLI attorneys have argued and won their first federal appeals with us. We’ll match experience-equivalent GS scale; you can moonlight in your own practice. We believe in Moneyball: part-time is possible. Bonus points for CA/DC/FL/IL/NY bar.
Email Ted Frank with resume, transcript, writing sample, preferred hourly/salary requirements, and why you want to work with us. (Our first filter is whether you can figure out my email address.)
Please don’t hold the cringe AI slop against us, the algorithm prefers it.
If your BigLaw firm only does left-wing pro bono or sneers at your @FedSoc membership, if you’ve billed 250 hours this month on discovery that will never matter and would prefer spending more time with your family, about the law from first principles instead of writing kitchen-sink briefs you know are tendentious—read on.
We’re looking for strong writers who are smart, self-starting, computer-literate, detail-oriented, and can work independently from home in a flat organization; who hate rent-seeking and love the free market; who have BigLaw-or-government-litigation or clerkship experience; who know the difference between abuse of discretion and de novo review; who read judicial opinions, Garner, and Volokh for fun; who can do their own ECF filing; and who want to be thrown in the deep end. You have opinions about typography, and hate cy pres, rent-seeking, and DEI nonsense. You noticed this paragraph used “rent-seeking” twice and wanted to edit it.
Our last six attorneys went to Chicago, Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, and UCLA Law. Our alumni have had four presidential nominations to super-cool Senate-confirmed positions; one became a state SG. We can’t promise that you’ll be up for the Fifth Circuit in 2038 if you work for us, but it apparently doesn’t hurt much.
We're known for our class-action objections that are taught in 1L and have gone to the Supreme Court and won hundreds of millions for consumers and shareholders, but we’ve also successfully challenged FCC abuses in the D.C. Circuit, regularly beat California in First Amendment lawsuits, won a settlement for a client against a top law school’s DEI program, are challenging a Virginia anti-landlord law, are suing left-wing NGOs engaging in civil terrorism, and are expanding our public-interest wings. Maybe you have ideas for our next lawsuit.
Junior attorneys get first-chair work in federal court if they want it. Most HLLI attorneys have argued and won their first federal appeals with us. We’ll match experience-equivalent GS scale; you can moonlight in your own practice. We believe in Moneyball: part-time is possible. Bonus points for CA/DC/FL/IL/NY bar.
Email Ted Frank with resume, transcript, writing sample, preferred hourly/salary requirements, and why you want to work with us. (Our first filter is whether you can figure out my email address.)
Please don’t hold the cringe AI slop against us, the algorithm prefers it.
Oct 20, 2026 · 5:11 PM UTC
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@tedfrank @HamLincLaw @FedSoc As someone who satisfies almost all those requirements, but is excluded for the slight disability of never having gone to law school, the repeated references to rent-seeking makes me want to say "lawyers, heal thyselves" 😉
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@the_cath_const Don’t really have enough undergraduate work to give out.
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@tedfrank @HamLincLaw @FedSoc Noticing the paragraph said "rent-seeking" twice and then getting to the sentence that called it out like
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@tedfrank @HamLincLaw @FedSoc Are you accepting applicants without "big law/clerkship/govt experience" ?
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