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Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects Our state courts are the frontlines of justice in the United States. With state trial courts handling 83 million cases in 2017 (95 percent of all U.S. …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager Last month, the University of Pennsylvania Law School announced the launch of their Future of the Profession Initiative . The initiative aims to “Teach, Lead, and Transform” by looking at ways law …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In August 2017,  Chief Justice Thomas A. Balmer  of the Oregon Supreme Court established a Civil Justice Improvements Task Force based on the Conference of Chief Justices  Civil Justice Improvements Committee’s Call to Action: …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession The American legal profession is at a crossroads. Time and again, studies show that too many people are being left out of the civil justice system. Up and down the income scale, …

Kelsey Montague Director of Marketing and Public Relations More and more legal professionals want to know what clients want from their attorneys. What is it that clients value in, and want from, their lawyers? How does a lawyer meet the requirements of …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession One of the frequently cited issues in any discussion about reforming current regulations governing the delivery of legal services is the topic of limited legal license programs. …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager In August, the United States Courts published a new video in their “Court Shorts” series in which nine federal judges discuss the rule of law and the role it plays not only in our justice system, …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession This week is the tenth annual National Celebration of Pro Bono. Legal professionals across the country are taking the time to recognize the importance of volunteer work, as well …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager Next week is the tenth National Celebration of Pro Bono , which highlights the importance of pro bono work in today’s legal landscape. The ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession The movement to significantly reform the regulation of legal services and open the market for better delivery of legal services has just expanded to another western …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession The comment below was submitted by IAALS to the California State Bar Task Force on Access Through Innovation for Legal Services (ATILS) as part of its request for public comment …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager Although divorce cases have traditionally been resolved via adversarial processes, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is becoming increasingly more prevalent in New York state civil courts, …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager The National Center for State Courts’ (NCSC) 2019 Trends in State Courts explores how to make state court processes both more comprehensible and relevant to the public. The articles relate the …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession “Are we in an era of regulatory reform?” Art Lachman, legal ethics attorney and former President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL), posed this …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager This past Saturday, September 14, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System held its Pass the Gavel Dinner, honoring Rebecca Love Kourlis as she stepped down as executive …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Over the past year, at the behest of our Board of Advisors, IAALS has examined the public’s trust and confidence in the American legal system. Many observers had already established that the public’s …

Kelsey Montague Director of Marketing and Public Relations Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS and HiiL begin research to provide in-depth understanding of the problems everyday Americans face resolving legal issues and accessing justice, on a …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS With heavy hearts we share the news of IAALS Senior Director  Alli Gerkman ’s passing after a long battle with cancer. There are no words that can adequately convey who Alli was—and who she was to …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation While technology is increasingly finding its way into courthouses around the country, substantial opportunities remain for courts to implement simple technology solutions that stand to greatly improve …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In 2015, the Conference of Chief Justices  and the  Conference of State Court Administrators passed Resolution 5 , which supports the goal of 100 percent access to effective assistance for essential civil legal needs. The …