Ready or Not: Practitioners and Law Students on Different Pages

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Whether law students are practice-ready after graduation depends greatly upon whom you ask. In BARBRI's first “State of the Legal Field Survey,” 70% of third-year law students thought they possessed “sufficient practice skills” and 76% believed they… MORE

Adapting Family Law for Modern, Nonmarital Families

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In a recent article, Professor Clare Huntington, Fordham University School of Law, argues for family law reforms that address the “seismic shift” occurring in American families. Today, more and more children are born to unmarried parents. These… MORE

Experiential Learning in Administrative Law: Meeting the Revised ABA Standards

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On March 6, University of Maine Visiting Professor and University Counsel Jeffrey Thaler published a paper on Meeting Law Students' Experiential Needs in the Classroom: Building an Administrative Law Practicum Implementing the Revised ABA Standards… MORE

Setting Goals to Improve Access to Justice for Self-Represented Litigants

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In a recent blog post, Richard Zorza shares some thoughts on improving services for self-represented litigants in the United States. Zorza, coordinator of the national Self Represented Litigation Network (SRLN), believes that the legal system must… MORE

Divorce Clinic Opened in Australia to Assist Women from Foreign Cultures

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The Women's Legal Centre ACT (Australian Capital Territory), in the Australian capital of Canberra, has opened a divorce clinic for women from diverse cultural backgrounds. The clinic provides free legal advice and representation to… MORE

IAALS and Center for Divorcing Families Receive 2015 ABA Problem Solver Award

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The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution has awarded IAALS and the Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families (RCSDF) the 2015 John W. Cooley Lawyer as Problem Solver Award. This honor is bestowed upon individuals and organizations that… MORE

Colorado's Proposed Civil Rule Amendments Focused on Improving Access to Justice

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The Colorado Supreme Court has requested comments on proposed amendments to the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes are focused on improving access to the civil justice system by making pretrial case management more efficient, thereby… MORE

Save the Date: 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference Is October 1-3, 2015

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Mark your calendars! The 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference will take place October 1-3, 2015, in Denver, Colorado. Each year, this conference has brought leaders in legal education together to collaborate on ways to retool… MORE

2015 Rebuilding Justice Award Honors ACTL Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice

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This month, 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 the spirit of innovation and leadership… MORE

West Virginia Ends Partisan Elections for Judges

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The West Virginia legislature has passed, and the governor has signed, a bill that makes elections for the state's judges nonpartisan. West Virginia's judicial elections attracted the national spotlight in 2009, when the U.S. Supreme Court weighed… MORE