Projects

When we improve civil justice, we improve community stability, income and asset growth, family well-being, and employment. Through this project, IAALS is giving voice to the imperative of civil justice and developing the messages and strategies that civil justice champions can rely on.

This initiative is creating the blueprint for courts to simplify their high-volume dockets and processes, and layer in user-focused technology alongside strategically targeted legal help, so courts will be optimized to meet the needs of people and their communities.

Too many people cannot effectively access our legal system to protect their rights and resolve their disputes. This project is about taking a bold step forward into a consumer-centered regulatory system—one that is competitive, broadly accessible, and better meets the needs of the people.

Allied legal professionals hold a key to bringing more accessible and affordable legal help where it is needed most. Like nurse practitioners, ALPs show great potential, and IAALS is working to grow these successful programs nationwide.

IAALS is evaluating the legal licensure landscape to understand each method’s effectiveness in assessing minimum competence to practice law and protecting the public from malpractice.

IAALS is helping JPE programs update their approaches to reflect modern realities, while remaining accurate, trusted, and relevant.

This project is developing strategies and tools that states need to facilitate meaningful public participation in vital legal regulation efforts.

With over 100 million middle class Americans needing better access to affordable legal help, ATLN is helping expand middle class-focused legal services nationwide.

Our Foundations work is compiling the competencies, skills, and characteristics new lawyers need to succeed in modern practice, with corresponding pathways to improve legal education and legal hiring.

We have defined the minimum competence needed to practice law and provide recommendations for how the legal licensing process, including the bar exam, must change to better serve the public.

IAALS and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor identified a model for choosing, evaluating, and retaining judges that balances the need for fair and impartial courts with the need for public accountability and transparency.

People of all socioeconomic backgrounds face problems every day with unclear paths to resolution. Our research findings are paving the way for meaningful progress to close the justice gaps in our society.