Events

Our Vision 2040 Summit will bring together innovators from law, business, technology, academia, and the community to ask an urgent question: What must justice look like in 2040—and what will it take to get there? From vision to action, the summit will bring together today's leaders to shape tomorrow’s justice system.

At this convening, we will focus on building a prototype of a reimagined and non-adversarial family justice model that will be healthier for all family members, more productive, and more efficient for the legal system.

At this convening, we will bring together civil justice reform experts and teams of judges, court administrators, and advocates from four states to redesign how courts approach high-volume cases.

This Allied Legal Professionals convening focused on one of the most critical questions for the future of these programs: What title will best define—and unify—this new profession, while helping to build public confidence and consistency across states?

This series explores how AI-driven legal innovation intersects with the regulation of Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL), and how reforms can balance consumer protection with broader access to legal services. Building on IAALS’ November 2024…

To help chart a better future for resolving business disputes, IAALS brought together leaders in business and the justice system to discuss the landscape of businesses’ justice needs and to craft new ways of meeting them. The ideas and solutions generated through this convening will spur innovative new models for businesses to more effectively and efficiently meet their legal needs.

How do we create a regulatory structure that allows us to take advantage of the opportunities that AI presents while also minimizing potential consumer harm? This convening brought national leaders together to discuss regulating the use of AI in the delivery of consumer-facing legal services.

Co-hosted with the Berkeley Judicial Institute, the 2024 summit brought together judicial leaders and change experts to provide interactive opportunities for peer collaboration. Building on this momentum, a 2025-2026 webinar series was launched to equip more judges with the practical tools and insights needed to drive meaningful innovation in the courts.

This convening included representatives from the seven states with active allied legal professional (ALP) programs. Through discussion and collaboration, we aimed to adopt general guidelines around reciprocity that can be shared and adopted nationally.

This national convening focused on current issues and challenges surrounding the development of non-exam pathways to legal licensure. IAALS brought together thought leaders and changemakers to collaborate and ideate on ways to create cohesion across states’ efforts, best practices in developing and implementing new pathways, and recommendations for the future of legal licensure.

We believe the regulatory innovation movement is now at a point where we can come together and share lessons learned and recommendations for launching and sustaining regulatory innovation. This convening was an opportunity to further this momentum and create an initial set of recommendations for launching and sustaining regulatory innovation.

This convening provided a venue for experts and national partners to develop recommendations and best practices for states developing allied legal professional programs. In June 2023, IAALS published and disseminated the results as well as a framework for a new national model for allied legal professionals based on best practices in Allied Legal Professionals: A National Framework for Program Growth.

IAALS invited a group of key players in the regulatory movement to participate in two days of thought leadership sessions to further creating synergies between and among regulatory reform efforts around the country.

This invitation-only convening brought together thought leaders from across the country to begin formulating the future of judicial performance evaluation. Outcomes from the convening will help formalize IAALS’ forthcoming recommendations for modernizing the evaluation process nationwide.

IAALS has launched a virtual summit series, Paths to Justice, comprised of multiple invite-only virtual convenings as well as a series of webinars focusing on the paths of the pandemic, the paths to access, and the paths to racial justice that our system must walk in our new normal.

Across the country, more and more jurisdictions are reimagining how to deliver and regulate legal services. IAALS and its partners are hosting a quarterly speaker series to provide a forum to learn about and discuss the regulatory changes underway, the challenges they face, and the opportunities they provide.

IAALS, The Chicago Bar Foundation, the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, and the Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) hosted a three-day virtual event that focused on the major hows and whys of supporting and implementing the practice of unbundled legal services both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the pandemic still ongoing, and in an effort to share lessons learned across jurisdictions, IAALS hosted a four-part speaker series to discuss best practices when implementing virtual services.

IAALS and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law co-hosted a speaker series—The Future of Legal Services—bringing together perspectives from the legal profession, academia, and state supreme courts—the regulators of legal services.

Our 7th Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference was held November 1-2, 2018, in Denver, Colorado. Our topic this year covered Phase II of our Foundations for Practice project.