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In the most recent issue of the Bar Examiner, Alli Gerkman and I discuss IAALS’ Foundations for Practice project, what it means to be a “whole lawyer,” and how we can ensure new lawyers have the skills they need to succeed in practice.
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IAALS simply would not be what it is without the support of our partners and friends. They are essential to our efforts and hail from a wide range of backgrounds, viewpoints, and sectors. Every month, IAALS will shine the spotlight on one such… MORE
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How do I spend most of my time as a federal court district judge? The best part of my job is presiding at a trial with good trial lawyers. But unfortunately that does not happen as often as I would like both because there has been a… MORE
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In 2014, the American Bar Association adopted new standards for law school accreditation called the ABA Standards and Rules Procedure for Approval of Law Schools, which focus less on bar passage and employment rates and more on student learning… MORE
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Unbundling has been a tool to better deliver legal services since the 1990s, when California family law practitioner Forrest “Woody” Mosten coined the term and became its alpha advocate. Woody brought this model to both the American Bar Association… MORE
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At the beginning of my career in court administration, I was fortunate to be part of the team at the National Center for State Courts that produced the first empirically based study of case processing times in major civil cases across the country.… MORE
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In hosting the 2017 Better Access through Unbundling Conference—the second national conference of its kind—and publishing its comprehensive Conference Report, IAALS has set the national agenda for expanding legal access through limited scope… MORE
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Although the idea of equal protection under the law has long been at the heart of the American legal system, equal access to justice is still not a reality for many people. Former American Bar Association President Robert J. Grey Jr. discusses this… MORE
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For years, law school graduates have struggled to find full-time employment, facing a highly saturated, fiercely competitive job market. There continues to be a gap between what law schools teach and what legal employers expect from new graduates—… MORE
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IAALS’ recent report to the Administrative Conference of the United States described a large but relatively unknown group of executive branch adjudicators who are not "Administrative Law Judges" (ALJs) governed by… MORE