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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. 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

3. Civil Justice Initiative

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   Objectives: To develop guidelines and best practices for civil litigation—including case management—based upon evidence derived from state pilot projects and other applicable research, and informed by implemented rule changes and stakeholder input, for the purpose of improving the civil justice system in our state courts. To support implementation of those recommendations nationwide and transform our state... MORE

4. Judicial Performance Evaluation

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   We have accomplished this by serving, in a number of contexts, as a convener of JPE program administrators, judges, lawmakers, and scholars who are committed to promoting and ensuring effective judicial performance evaluation in states around the country.

   IAALS’ JPE Working Group provides an essential forum for this convening. Founded in 2007 with JPE program administrators and scholars from seven states, the group now ... MORE

5. Family Justice Initiative

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   Objectives: To develop guidelines and best practices for domestic relations case processing, for the purpose of making family courts less adversarial, more efficient—particularly for those individuals who use the courts without the help of an attorney—and more responsive to the needs of the families involved in litigation. To support implementation of the

6. Cases Without Counsel

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   Most people’s experience with the American justice system is through the family courts. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people enter the U.S. courts seeking a divorce, separation, or resolution of child-related matters (like custody or child support). Some individuals hire a lawyer to help them through the entire process. But a large and growing number do not have an attorney and proceed self-represented through the court system for s... MORE

7. Initial Discovery Protocols

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   Objective: To develop a set of case-type-specific documents for automatic initial disclosures and support their implementation by individual federal and state trial court judges, with the ultimate goal of reducing cost and delay in the discovery process.

   In 2010, the Civil Rules Advisory Committee sponsored a conference at Duke University School of Law to explore the current costs of ci... MORE

8. 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

9. Judicial Selection in the United States

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   Objective: To identify and promote models for choosing state and federal judges that promote and preserve fair, high quality, and trusted courts.

   Through empirical analysis and recommendations, thought leadership, and substantive support, IAALS works to identify and promote models for choosing state and federal judges that emphasize qualifications and experience, limit political considerations and sp... MORE

10. Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice

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    One of the major themes that emerged from IAALS' research in partnership with the ACTL was that our civil justice system is indeed plagued with cost and delay, making the system inaccessible for many and inefficient for all. In 2009, IAALS and the Task Force jointly published a Final Report, whic... MORE