Carolyn A. Tyler Former Director of Communications In time for the election season, IAALS today announced a new toolkit designed to educate voters about the performance record of judges up for retention. Judges Aren’t Sexy: Engaging and Educating Voters …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director It is hard to believe it has been seven months since our 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference last fall, where we presented initial results from our Foundations for Practice survey. Since that gathering, …
Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern In a recent Colorado Public Radio/Colorado Matters story, the Center for Out-of-Court Divorce was featured as a promising alternative to the traditional lengthy, expensive, and often contentious in-court divorce. Dr. Megan …
H. Thomas Wells, Jr. Partner and Founding Member, Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC Past President, American Bar Association IAALS is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Throughout the year, we will be featuring guest posts from our colleagues and partners …
Brittany Kauffman CEO Back in 2011, Utah implemented significant statewide changes to its rules of civil procedure governing disclosure and discovery, incorporating proportionality and presumptive discovery limits based on tiers. Once again Utah is on the …
Brittany Kauffman CEO On December 1, 2015, the long awaited amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect, including changes focused on cooperation, active judicial case management, proportionality in discovery, and …
Zachary Willis Director of Communications Carolyn A. Tyler Former Director of Communications Last week, IAALS held our annual Rebuilding Justice Award Dinner in celebration of our 10th Anniversary and the remarkable progress we've made as a national force …
Daniel Girard Managing Partner, Girard Gibbs LLP IAALS is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Throughout the year, we will be featuring guest posts from our colleagues and partners to recap our accomplishments and national impact — and look to the …
Zachary Willis Director of Communications Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern In February, IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis gave the keynote address for the Denton Darrington Annual Lecture on Law and Government in Boise. The lecture is sponsored by …
Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS IAALS is celebrating our 10th Anniversary, which means our 2015 Annual Report marks a milestone in our history. This report takes a look back at our past decade of accomplishments as well as gazes …
Zachary Willis Director of Communications Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern As IAALS celebrates its tenth year, the Denver Business Journal sat down with Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis to recap her motivation for leaving the Colorado Supreme Court and …
Zachary Willis Director of Communications This week, the Denver Post published an article highlighting Denver’s new Center for Out-of-Court Divorce , which provides a child-focused, less-adversarial, and potentially less-costly approach for families when …
Wendy Paris Author, Splitopia: Dispatches from Today’s Good Divorce and How to Part Well IAALS is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Throughout the year, we will be featuring guest posts from our colleagues and partners to recap our accomplishments …
Zachary Willis Director of Communications On April 21, IAALS—the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver—will hold its annual Rebuilding Justice Award Dinner . The award recognizes individuals who exemplify …
Brittany Kauffman CEO Inspired in part by the work of the Conference of Chief Justice’s Civil Justice Improvements Committee , Chief Justice Scott Bales of the Arizona Supreme Court issued an Order at the end of last year establishing a new initiative …
Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative It’s that time of year again, when state legislatures are in session and lawmakers who are dissatisfied with the judiciary and some of its decisions are proposing changes in how judges are selected. …
John T. Broderick, Jr. Chief Justice (Ret.), New Hampshire Supreme Court IAALS is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Throughout the year, we will be featuring guest posts from our colleagues and partners to recap our accomplishments and national …
Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern As is true in many jurisdictions, Arizona courts are finding that self-represented parties are heavily concentrated in family law matters, like divorce, child support, and custody. With little or no legal experience, …
Alan Carlson CEO (Ret.), Orange County Superior Court, California Toward the end of last year when I first read IAALS’ report, Change the Culture, Change the System: Top 10 Cultural Shifts Needed to Create the Courts of Tomorrow , I had feelings of both …
Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Last month, MSN released a ranking of the best and worst states (including D.C.) for getting a low-cost divorce , based on a survey conducted by GOBankingRates. The ranking takes into account factors like court filing fees, …
