IAALS reached out to those in the trenches—businesses, courts, and the legal community—to provide a snapshot of today’s electronic discovery landscape. This report explores the real world implications of e-discovery and the impact of the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Judicial Performance Evaluation has the potential to help dissipate attacks on judicial impartiality and independence by focusing the public on process-oriented judicial skills and away from specific case outcomes.
This article proposes a two-pronged, comprehensive approach to providing proper, relevant information to voters on candidates in contested judicial elections.
This article summarizes the results of a recent comprehensive study of an existing but underutilized approach to process-oriented judicial accountability: judicial performance evaluation.
A companion to Shared Expectations, this publication provides useful tools to aid jurisdictions interested in establishing or improving a judicial performance evaluation program.
IAALS' first publication in 2006 offers an overview of JPE standards and programs nationwide. It was one of our most requested and accessed publications.