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Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative States across the country are wrestling with the question of whether a mandatory retirement age should be imposed upon judges, and if so, what that age should be. According to the National Center for …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In response to the end-of-term decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court on marriage equality and the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), some presidential candidates are calling for changes to the life …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The National Center for State Courts has released its final evaluation of  Utah’s significant statewide changes  to the rules governing disclosures and discovery, implemented in November 2011. The rule changes incorporate …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation The new  Idaho Rules of Family Law Procedure (IRFLP) will go into effect statewide today.  Several Judicial Districts have opted to implement the rules prior to this date. The new IRFLP are designed …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Early results  from Minnesota’s Expedited Litigation Track (ELT) pilot program suggest a reduction in the delays generally caused by either the discovery process or the filing of continuances. The ELT  provides  a more expedited …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The Colorado Supreme Court  has adopted amendments  to the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure, effective July 1 for cases filed on or after July 1. The  amendments  are substantial and incorporate the best of  Colorado’s Civil Access …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Nationwide, IAALS is succeeding in improving the American legal system with innovative approaches to daunting challenges. But, we don’t do it alone. We work each day in collaboration with the very best minds in …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In the last few weeks, legislators in two states have passed laws aimed at influencing upcoming supreme court decisions. In Kansas,  trouble has brewed  between the judiciary and the other two …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern In a  recent paper , LexisNexis examined a study of legal employers’ perceptions of recent law school graduates. In a survey of 300 hiring partners and senior associates, 95% believed that law students lack key practical skills …

Brittany Kauffman CEO This month, IAALS will  convene a group of plaintiffs’ attorneys  from Colorado and around the country to discuss the present and future impact of civil justice reform in the United States. Over the last ten years, there have been …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative With three of the seven seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court up for election in November, the stakes were high in the May 19 primaries, in which six candidates in each party vied for nominations. …

Brittany Kauffman CEO IAALS and the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice’s joint report,  Reforming Our Civil Justice System: A Report on Progress & Promise , continues to garner attention at a national level. In its …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern The  52nd Annual Conference of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts  (AFCC) is taking place this week in New Orleans, and representatives from IAALS will be taking part in the discussions. The conference,  Children …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Congratulations to Professor JoNel Newman, University of Miami School of Law, on her selection for the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education’s M. Shanara Gilbert Award. The award honors an “emerging clinician” with ten or …

Brittany Kauffman CEO On February 25-26, 2016, IAALS will hold its Fourth Civil Justice Reform Summit:  Creating the Just, Speedy, and Inexpensive Courts of Tomorrow . We are on the cusp of important change in our civil justice system .  We expect to see …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Three years ago, we launched  Law Jobs: By the Numbers , an interactive online tool that gives prospective law students the most transparent and complete law school employment rate information available. With the …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Technology has impacted the legal profession greatly, yet many attorneys are not keeping up—at least, according to some judges. In a  recent survey , roughly 32 percent of judge respondents said that lawyers lack the knowledge …

Karen Mathis Former Associate Executive Director The League of Women Voters of Colorado is recognizing IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis with its  2015 Leader of Democracy Award  on June 17. I can't think of a more appropriate recipient of …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Corina D. Gerety Former Director of Research, IAALS A year ago, we launched  Foundations for Practice  and kicked off a study to achieve the project’s first objective: to identify the foundations entry-level lawyers …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation The Modern Family Court Judge: Knowledge, Qualities, and Skills for Success , originally published by the  Honoring Families Initiative  in October 2014, has been republished in the  April 2015 …