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1. Unlocking Legal Regulation

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   Objectives: Support and facilitate efforts to improve the regulation of legal services in the United States, including educating lawyers, courts, and the public on regulatory issues. Assess and support pilot projects for risk-based regulation in Utah and other states, including identifying metrics and conducting empirical research to evaluate outcomes.  Develop a model for a regulatory en... MORE

2. Get Involved

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   Supporting IAALS—intellectually and financially—is an investment in one of our country's most fundamental institutions: our legal system.

   By leveraging a unique blend of empirical and legal ... MORE

3. Out-of-Court Model for Separating and Divorcing Families

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   Objective: To encourage a family-centered approach for couples with children who want to end their partnership or marriage through compassionate, holistic divorce resolution.

   Modeled in part after the highly successful Australian Family Relationship Centres, IAALS' out-... MORE

4. Rule Makers vs. Risk Takers

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   Editor's Note: Although Professor Bill Henderson's talk on the future of legal services has been postponed, we're thrilled to share his recent post on Legal Evolution, in which he calls for us all to be Risk Takers—and to supp... MORE

5. The O'Connor Judicial Selection Plan

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   Objective: To offer a research-based process for ensuring the best judicial candidates are selected and retained.

   The O’Connor Judicial Selection Plan consists of four elements:

   Judicial nominating commission Gubernatorial appointment Judicial performance evaluation Retention elections

   IAALS offers research-based recommendat... MORE

6. The Whole Lawyer: Small Variations among Law Firm Sizes (And Conclusion)

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   In the last blog, we explained that the 77 foundations survey respondents identified as being necessary for new lawyers in the short term—that is, the foundations that make up the whole lawyer—which IAALS reported in 

7. The Whole Lawyer: Small Variations Across Practice Settings

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   In our previous blog, we explained that the 77 foundations survey respondents identified as being necessary for new lawyers immediately upon graduation from law school, which IAALS reported in Foundatio... MORE

8. Honor Becky

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   Honor a Lifetime in Service of Justice Honor Rebecca Love Kourlis

9. Expert Opinion: State Courts, You’ve Had the Framework to Adapt to COVID-19 All Along

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   We must look back to move forward, so the saying goes.

   Courts face a backlog of civil cases that have been placed on hold since mid-March because of state and local shelter-in-place orders, court closures, or other pandemic-related... MORE

10. Copyright / IP Policy

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