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Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Documentary film Divorce Corp opens in cities across the country today, drawing critical attention to family courts and those involved in the system, such as attorneys, judges, and custody …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The Iowa Supreme Court has requested comments on proposed amendments to the discovery provisions in the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure and a proposed new rule allowing for streamlined and expedited civil actions for cases involving …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern France is considering a proposal that would allow divorcing couples who are in agreement on their issues to divorce without appearing before a judge . Nearly half of …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative With the start of a new year comes the convening of state legislatures around the country, and, in a number of states, judicial selection reform is on the table. In Kansas, conservative legislators …

Robert P. Thompson Former Director of Communications & Marketing IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis paid a pre-holiday, virtual visit to LXBN TV to talk about the effects of partisan elections of judges across the country. Kourlis weighed in on …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director 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 …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS will be closed from December 25 through January 1, but we promise to pick up where we left off in the new year! Thanks for reading and being a part of our mission to change the American legal system for the …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative According to the Michigan Campaign Finance Network (MCFN), more than $18 million was spent in two Michigan Supreme Court races in 2012. Of this, nearly $14 million was spent on candidate-focused …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis and Chief Judge Janice Davidson participated in a Law Day program on Colorado's merit selection system in 2012.   Denver, CO - IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In August 2014, all of Tennessee's appellate judges will appear on the ballot, and voters will decide whether they should be retained in office. By that time, the  Judicial Performance Evaluation …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation A recent survey in the United Kingdom asked respondents for their opinions on both court and non-court proceedings for divorcing couples . Overall, only 51 percent of those surveyed indicated they …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications We are excited to announce that two new law schools have joined the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Consortium: Loyola University Chicago and Georgia State University. Members of the Consortium demonstrate …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Jurors have a unique perspective on our legal system. Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with someone who served on a jury this fall in California Superior Court. The trial concerned a wrongful …

Brittany Kauffman CEO 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 …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications 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 …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative 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 …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director 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 …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative 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 …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director 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 …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director 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 …