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Marsha Kline Pruett Maconda Brown O'Connor Professor, Smith College School for Social Work Past President, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Deborah Roth-Howe Family Consultant, Family Resolutions Specialty Court, Hampshire Family and Probate …

Andrew Schepard Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professor of Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Hofstra University Innovations in the delivery of legal services can also be laboratories for testing innovations in legal education. When it comes to …

Jordan M. Singer Consultant, IAALS Professor of Law, New England Law | Boston Nevada, which directly elects nearly all of its state judges, has never implemented an official judicial performance evaluation (JPE) program. Instead, between 1992 and 2013, …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In June, the National Center for States Courts (NCSC) released the second in a series of evaluations of civil justice reform demonstration pilot projects around the country:  Civil Justice Initiative: Evaluation of the Civil …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Kelsey Montague Director of Marketing and Public Relations As thousands sit for the bar exam this week, IAALS is spearheading an empirical effort to define the minimum competence they need to practice law Most law …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation As state courts work to serve the substantial numbers of litigants who navigate the civil and family court process without an attorney, they are taking a variety of approaches. Some have fillable …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS IAALS simply would not be what it is without the support of our staff, partners, and friends. They are essential to our efforts and hail from a wide range of backgrounds, viewpoints, and sectors.  …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS is pleased to announce that Kelsey Montague has joined the organization as its new Associate Director of Marketing and Public Relations. Kelsey comes to IAALS from the Anchor Center for Blind Children, where …

Russell Wheeler President, Governance Institute Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution Former Deputy Director, Federal Judicial Center Senior Fellow, IAALS In 2016, California legislators,  pressed by court users and judges , authorized the State …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Brooke Meyer Former Manager The National Center for States Courts (NCSC) has released the first in a series of evaluations of civil justice reform demonstration pilot projects around the country:  Civil Justice Initiative, Evaluation …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager On April 29, Maine continued its efforts toward civil justice reform by conducting an all-day Civil Justice Reform Training Conference for all Maine Supreme Court Justices, Superior Court Justices, District Judges, Magistrates, …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS IAALS simply would not be what it is without the support of our staff, partners, and friends. They are essential to our efforts and hail from a wide range of backgrounds, viewpoints, and sectors.  …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern Technological advances in the legal field are growing around the world, but different countries are seeing that growth manifest at different speeds and in different ways. In the United States, we’ve seen a boom in …

John Montgomery Former Communications Coordinator Divorce is an inherently complicated and lengthy process in most states, and families bear the burden of high financial and emotional costs, especially when children are involved. Easing this emotional …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure It is no secret that divorce poses significant problems for those who go through the legal process. Even for people who approach it with the intention of remaining amicable, the adversarial …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern Kim Kardashian West wears many hats: reality television star, media personality, businesswoman, wife, and mother. But the second eldest Kardashian told  Vogue  she has plans to add “lawyer” to her list of titles, …

Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects Online dispute resolution (ODR) is emerging in courts around the country. Last month, Arizona’s Administrative Office of the Courts announced the launch of an ODR pilot program in the family courts of Pinal …

Linda Simard Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School As a law professor, I have the pleasure of watching law students evolve from 1Ls who are shocked—and somewhat dismayed—at the remarkable intricacies of civil procedure, to 2Ls and 3Ls who slowly …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS IAALS simply would not be what it is without the support of our staff, partners, and friends. They are essential to our efforts and hail from a wide range of backgrounds, viewpoints, and sectors.  …

John Montgomery Former Communications Coordinator This week, IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis and Senior Director Brittany Kauffman have been attending the World Justice Forum at The Hague, which concludes today. They participated on panels …