In September 2012, 21 law schools sent representatives to Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers’ first conference. With the understanding that collaboration is at the heart of rich and effective teaching, the report represents the starting point of a shared dialogue among Consortium schools.
This report presents the results from an analysis of data from five pilot programs instituted from 2000 to 2002 in four different Colorado courts implementing proactive case management in family law cases. The data shows that proactive case management in family law cases provides substantial benefits for the litigants.
This Guide provides the tools for any interested federal judge to make a quick, initial assessment of the status of his or her civil case docket to measure how it compares to his or her colleagues, as well as to courts across the nation, with the goal of improving caseflow management in civil cases in the U.S. District Courts.
In this article we explore the history of recent efforts to improve the civil justice system in the United States, beginning first with the efforts of IAALS and the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice, which culminated in a Final Report that proposed twenty-nine Principles containing broad ideas to improve the civil justice system.
During the ABA’s 2013 mid-year meeting, the Task Force on the Future of Legal Education heard testimony from individuals about opportunities to improve legal education. Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers took this opportunity to submit a comment focused on aligning legal education with the needs of an evolving profession. The comment had six main recommendations.
This report summarizes what IAALS learned through focus groups of judges and attorneys, which then provided the foundation for developing our model surveys and recommendations for reviewing written opinions of appellate judges.
This report, containing a docket analysis complemented by in-depth interviews, examines the Colorado experience to provide insight to jurisdictions around the country interested in streamlined pretrial procedures, case differentiation, and voluntary processes.
This collects recommendations for jurisdictions around the country that are considering implementing short, summary, or expedited trial program, as well as those seeking to improve their current programs. The recommendations "are meant to serve as a flexible roadmap for reform, with the details of each program to be determined at the local level."
Published in conjunction with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), this report evaluates the cost and delays of litigation from a new perspective: that of financial experts. The report offers five recommendations to maximize both the effectiveness of financial experts and efficiency of their use in the civil pretrial process.
This article examines the ways in which familial distress surrounding separation and divorce can affect individual employee productivity and negatively impact a business' bottom line. This article further outlines some improvements that are being implemented or considered in various jurisdictions.
While electronic discovery continues to pose challenges for the civil justice system, the judge who understands e-discovery may be uniquely positioned to guide the litigation in a way that works better for all litigants—and for the court itself. In this Second Edition, IAALS provides an updated manual for state court judges and anyone who needs a basic resource on e-discovery.
This study assesses whether, as some claim, there is empirical evidence that women and minority judges are evaluated less favorably than their Caucasian male colleagues. We consider whether these differences are the result of implicit biases, and we offer recommendations for minimizing the potential that such biases may come into play.
This publication couples the desired attributes for court systems and individual judges identified by participants in the IAALS Roundtable on Judicial Selection with principles (or “cornerstones”) for judicial selection processes that are most likely to produce court systems and judges with these attributes.
In response to the need for an impartial, efficient, and meaningful method for evaluating appellate opinions as part of the JPE process, IAALS developed this report containing broad recommendations, and model criteria and questionnaires.
IAALS developed a set of goals to pursue and principles to follow in the selection, composition, and operation of judicial nominating commissions. Rather than constituting a “one size fits all” prescription, these goals and principles offer a framework within which to establish a commission-based gubernatorial appointment process tailored to individual states.
