Senior Counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association Describes Protection for Homeschoolers by Lawyers For Jesus published on 2019-01-02T16:48:30Z Mike Donnelly is Senior Counsel and Global Outreach Director for the Home School Legal Defense Association, an organization that defends the liberty of families who choose to homeschool. HSLDA’s primary goal is to bring together homeschooling families so that each can have a low-cost method of obtaining quality legal defense. Today, HSLDA gives tens of thousands of families the freedom to homeschool without having to face legal threats alone.