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Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Hello all! Riley Combelic, here. I am a third-year law student at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law focusing on corporate and securities law. This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (September 18-20), I will be …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern A recent  ABA survey report found that self-help legal centers around the nation "are a vibrant and effective resource" to those they serve. The ABA's Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services surveyed approximately …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The Colorado Supreme Court has extended the Colorado Civil Access Pilot Project (CAPP) for another six months, through June 30, 2015. The pilot project , which was originally schedule to run through December 31, 2013, had already …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative On August 7, three Tennessee Supreme Court justices withstood a well-funded (and well-covered by IAALS Online:  here , here , and here ) challenge to their retention on the bench for subsequent …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Under our Rule One Initiative , we have focused much of our time and effort over the last seven years on ways to improve the effectiveness of discovery. In large part, this is due to the expanding world of information—including …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation IAALS would like to congratulate Kansas Court of Appeals Judge Steve Leben on being named the 2014 recipient of the William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence. The National Center for State …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Chad G. Asarch recently wrote an article in The Colorado Lawyer discussing the Real Estate Transactions course he teaches, which emphasizes practical legal skills in a non-clinical, traditional classroom setting. In …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern There have been a few new resources made available for separating or divorcing families in the United Kingdom. The first is the  Family Separation Hub , a website that provides information to families who are going through, or …

Melinda Taylor Clerk of Court, Denver Juvenile Court Former Executive Director, Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families A year ago today, the Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families (RCSDF or Resource Center) opened its doors …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In May, we launched Foundations for Practice , an ambitious project that will study the foundations entry-level lawyers need to launch successful careers, identify models of legal education to get us there, and develop …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The latest round of proposed amendments published for comment appear to be just housekeeping measures, and therefore are not nearly as significant as the proposed amendments that were published for comment last August , and which we …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS IAALS and its Quality Judges Initiative are pleased to announce the release of a new report on the judicial nominating commissions used to …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative New Mexico judges are chosen through a process that is truly unique. Since 1988, judicial vacancies have been filled by commission-based appointment. Appointees then face a partisan election to keep …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Law Week Colorado recently published an article detailing the launch of Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers' Foundations for Practice project. The goal of the project is to give law schools …

Brittany Kauffman CEO In a recent opinion issuing discovery sanctions , a federal district court judge in the Northern District of Iowa denounced modern discovery practice in the United States. Judge Mark W. Bennett began the opinion with a reference to …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Professor and ETL Fellow John Lande of the University of Missouri School of Law has helped bring together a new collection of resources for law school professors who teach Alternative Dispute Resolution or who use ADR …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern The United Kingdom Ministry of Justice recently announced  the government's "commitment that from the age of 10, children and young people involved in all family court hearings in England and Wales will have access to judges to …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Riley Combelic IAALS Intern The ABA recently honored Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law and Vanderbilt University Law School , both Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Consortium schools, with their 2014  …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Legal Aid Ontario, established in 1998 by the Legal Aid Services Act, is an independent publicly funded organization that promotes access to justice for low-income individuals. The organization recently created programs that …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Recent events in Arkansas have prompted some state leaders to call for an end to electing judges, in favor of commission-based gubernatorial appointment. In May, a contested nonpartisan primary race …