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1. Shared Expectations: Judicial Accountability in Context

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   IAALS' first publication in 2006 offers an overview of JPE standards and programs nationwide.

   It was one of our most requested and accessed publications.

2. Unbundling Legal Services: A Guide for Lawyers

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   The use of unbundled legal services is growing rapidly. An increasing number of jurisdictions explicitly allow unbundling and a growing number of attorneys are offering the service. Yet many attorneys remain unaware of its availability. As this method of legal services delivery expands, courts, commentators, and bar associations have created numerous excellent resources on the topic, including readily available websit... MORE

3. Unbundling Legal Services: A Toolkit for Court Leadership

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   Unbundled legal services, in which a client hires an attorney for agreed-upon discrete tasks, is a partial solution to the access to justice problem in our nation’s courts, and has become increasingly used and accepted in the last several decades. Although unbundled legal services provide more flexibility to a litigant, and is usually far less costly than full service representation, too few attorneys ... MORE

4. An Opinion on Opinions

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   In August of 2011, IAALS convened a national conference on appellate judicial performance evaluation (JPE)—Evaluating Appellate Judges: Preserving Integrity, Maintaining Accountability. Throughout the course of the conference, participants returned to the issue of evaluating appellate opinions. Participants agreed that, as the primary work product of appellate judges, written opinions should be reviewed as part of the evaluation proces... MORE

5. Choosing Judges: Judicial Nominating Commissions and the Selection of Supreme Court Justices

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   This report details the judicial nominating commissions used to select supreme court justices in 30 states and the District of Columbia. In these jurisdictions, the nominating commission accepts applications for judicial vacancies, screens the applicants through steps laid out in state law, and recommends a shortlist of the best-qualified candidates to the governor for... MORE

6. Rebuilding Justice

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   Authors Rebecca Love Kourlis and Dirk Olin tell the story of a civil justice system that has become alarmingly expensive, politicized, and time-consuming, degrading it to the point that it no longer meets the legitimate needs of the people it was created to serve.

   Rebuilding Justice gives citizens and civil servants alike permission (and a roadmap) to write a new ending to the story—one that employs practical and empowering solu... MORE

7. Transparent Courthouse®: A Blueprint for Judicial Performance Evaluation

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   A companion to Shared Expectations, this publication provides useful tools to aid jurisdictions interested in establishing or improving a judicial performance evaluation program.

8. Foundations: Hiring Guide

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   This guide is for employers who want to improve their hiring practices—to improve quality, retention, and diversity—based on what IAALS has learned from the Foundations for Practice project.

   To make the most of this resource, employers should use the guide in conjunction with the Hiring Toolkit at the end of the guide. This is not a list of boil... MORE

9. Preventing Whack-a-Mole Management of Consumer Debt Cases

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   Americans are drowning in debt, with an estimated $4 trillion or roughly $13,000 for every man, woman, and child in the United States—large numbers of whom struggle to repay their debts, especially debts incurred to cover routine living expenses, emergency situations, and out-of-pocket medical costs. Many then find themselves as defendants in consumer debt collection cases filed in state courts. These cas... MORE

10. Recommended Tools for Evaluating Appellate Judges

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    Recognizing that appellate Judicial Performance Evaluation (JPE) programs have largely been patterned after programs for trial judges, IAALS is pleased to offer recommendations and tools for evaluating the performance of appellate judges that are tailored to those judges’ unique role and responsibilities.

    These recommended tools are the product of two years’ work, which included a national confere... MORE