News & Updates

IAALS is dedicated to building a broad ecosystem of providers and guiding best practices for innovation to ensure everyone has access to affordable legal help.

The constitutional framework of checks and balances, individual rights, judicial independence, and the rule of law remain essential to our democracy, but a commitment to our constitutional ideals also requires us to ask how our institutions can better fulfill them.

The toolkit shows regulators how prosecutorial guidance can allow for AI tools to develop and serve people while preserving meaningful consumer protections.

At an ATLN webinar, lawyers and innovators learned how nonprofit and sliding scale law firm models can benefit communities.

ATLN and people-centered legal providers serving those across the income scale can collaborate, share innovative models, and partner toward our shared goals.

IAALS' work on Allied Legal Professional programs across the country is providing paralegals with a clear legal path to independent practice.

The WSBA built dedicated innovation capacity directly into its staffing structure to move ideas into implementation.

IAALS has elevated the role of empirical research in legal system reform and demonstrated how data and evaluation are the bedrock for effective solutions.

IAALS' evaluation includes the social and economic value generated through Utah’s Sandbox program during its first three years of operation.

Over the past 20 years, IAALS has built a national reputation as an independent force behind civil justice transformation. Read more about our impact in our 2025 Annual Report.

This pioneering initiative will guide how jurisdictions assess the impact of ABS programs on access to justice, innovation, and consumer protection.

IAALS, Innovation for Justice, and Community Justice Advocates of Utah have relaunched an expanded version of the U.S. Justice Worker Program Index, a comprehensive national resource mapping how “Community-Based Justice Worker” programs are structured, authorized, and implemented.

In a time when public trust in institutions is fraying, IAALS remains steady in its dedication to people-centered solutions that improve how civil justice functions.

Over the past year, judges faced an unprecedented number of threats. Minimizing these attacks as just another indication of our polarized society is shortsighted.

The Community Justice Advocates of Utah and Innovation for Justice, in partnership with IAALS, have launched a new index tracking how Community-Based Justice Worker programs are designed and implemented.

Most people and small businesses struggle to find affordable legal help when they need it, but innovation across the legal services landscape is bringing new models and providers to the market.

Over the past 20 years, IAALS has built a national reputation for advancing bold, practical solutions across our justice system by cutting through division with data and dialogue.

In 2025, IAALS connected experts and leaders to help build innovative solutions that address the most pressing challenges facing our justice system.

At IAALS' recent judicial webinar, judges stressed how critical communication and persistence are for judges trying to innovate in their courts.

Insights from A Blueprint for Judicial Innovation lay out how judges can be catalysts for change in their courts.