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Professor John Lande of the University of Missouri School of Law gives students a realistic and comprehensive perspective on legal negotiation through a semester-long simulated experience in his Negotiation course. In this second or third… MORE
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In his Voices from the Field interview, John Walsh, U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, encourages legal education reformers to consider new strategies to help teach students more than just legal analysis and case reading, so that they have… MORE
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This year, we tried something new at the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference. During the reception, we opened the floor to four [six-minute, 20-slide] presentations by participants who wanted to share an idea with our audience of legal educators… MORE
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At our 2nd Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference, we honored Bill Henderson, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, with our Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Award. Afterward, he delivered a keynote address (video below) focused on the… MORE
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O'Connor Advisory Committee member and former Texas chief justice Wallace Jefferson recently appeared on MSNBC's Craig Melvin show. That segment of the program focused on the findings of the latest New Politics of Judicial Elections report… MORE
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In a recent opinion dissenting from the denial of certiorari in an Alabama death penalty case, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the pressures of partisan judicial elections influence judges' decisions in cases involving… MORE
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The U.S. Senate voted 52 to 48 to change its rules regarding use of the filibuster to block votes on nominees to the lower federal courts and executive branch positions. The filibuster had been used by both parties in the past to require… MORE
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In October, we had a room full of people abuzz with talk about the present state of legal education and its future. These were educators who are already changing the way legal education happens and practitioners who are already engaging the… MORE
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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review recently published an article about proposed legislation to change the Pennsylvania judicial selection process. Two state representatives of Pennsylvania have introduced a bill to move the state from a partisan… MORE
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We previously shared Judge Paul W. Grimm's standard Discovery Order, which we recommend to state and federal court judges alike as a model and inspiration to manage the pretrial discovery process so as to reduce the cost and burden of discovery.… MORE