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Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director According to the author, 12% of Canadian law school graduates are currently unable to secure an articling position. In light of this, the article urges Canadian law schools to look to legal education reform efforts in …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Larry Ribstein comments on changes in corporate legal services, which find companies first doing away with the law firms as middle men and the then restructuring internal legal teams and “embedding” lawyers throughout …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Two constitutional amendments have been proposed to move away from merit selection for appellate judges, a statutory process that sunsets in 2012. But since the constitution cannot be amended until 2014, the state bar …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The late Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, who served on the O'Connor Advisory Committee and was a recipient of the Transparent Courthouse® Award, is now being honored by the Ohio Supreme Court, which is naming the Ohio …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A second supreme court justice announced plans to not seek reelection when his term expires in 2012. Chief Justice Paul De Muniz announced his retirement intentions in October. Fri, 11/04/2011 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director During a series of panels that comprised a Defending Iowa’s Courts event, the executive director of the state ACLU chapter described an organized national effort to dismantle judicial merit selection processes. The …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director House Speaker Dean Cannon announced that he would not seek major changes to the judiciary in the 2012 legislative session. In the 2011 session, Cannon unsuccessfully proposed a constitutional amendment that would have …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Governor Rick Perry has made more appointments to the supreme court than any other Texas governor. While he has been praised for diversifying the court, his appointees have been characterized as business-friendly and …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel recently highlighted Rebuilding Justice : As the joint product of two authors, Rebuilding Justice aims to provide a balanced perspective on the courts by integrating experiences from …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director President Obama nominated supreme court justice Andrew Hurwitz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. If Hurwitz is confirmed, Governor Brewer will have the opportunity to make her third appointment to the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director This week, Rebecca Love Kourlis contributed a guest post to the National Law School's Forum on Legal Education : But, of course, systemic change doesn’t happen overnight. Progress will be incremental.  The people who …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Fall 2011 edition of Transparent Courthouse® Quarterly is now available. Transparent Courthouse® Quarterly is a quarterly newsletter reporting highlights from all IAALS initiatives. Sign up for Transparent …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director This article from the Colorado Lawyer discusses the 2011 conference on evaluating appellate judges and its outcomes. In 2010, a number of states saw organized opposition to the retention of Supreme Court justices. This …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The November 2011 edition of Selection Snapshots is now available. Sign up for Selection Snapshots and other IAALS newsletters here . Tue, 11/01/2011 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The judicial nominating commission released 40 years of data on those who have been recommended and appointed to the D.C. superior court and court of appeals. The commission’s process has become increasingly transparent …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director There are fourteen trial court seats up for election in Manhattan, but candidates are all running unopposed. The five supreme court candidates were nominated at a party convention. Of the nine civil court candidates, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director According to a report on campaign spending in state supreme court elections in 2009-10, special interest groups accounted for 30% of the money spent and paid for three out of four attack advertisements. The $4.9 million …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Christie campaigned for Republican state legislators, who are up for reelection in November, on the issue of “elitist judges.” Christie plans to propose a constitutional amendment to bypass the ruling. Click here to …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A joint legislative committee considered changing the process for selecting the state’s appellate judges. The primary proposal is to put party labels for judicial candidates back on the ballot, in order to enhance voter …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A Republican gubernatorial candidate expressed his support for returning to contested elections for all of the state’s judges. In his view, the current system (merit selection) is closed to public input and too …