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Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative At a recent public forum, Ohio's three newest supreme court justices discussed the threat posed to state courts by significant turnover on the bench. Over the next six years, four of the high court's …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Opponents of commission-based appointment of judges—also known as the Missouri Plan, for the state in which the judicial selection process originated—have obtained  approval from the secretary of …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Judge Paul W. Grimm is well known for his contributions in the area of improving the pretrial discovery process, particularly with regard to the discovery of electronically stored information. In addition to his many other roles, …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Two retired judges will co-chair a new task force on judicial independence established by the New Jersey Bar Association. According to the bar association's president, the task force will direct its …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation On September 3, the Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families at the University of Denver opened its doors to metro-area families. The Center is a model for providing interdisciplinary, …

Steven S. Gensler When most people think of electronic discovery, they probably envision a lawsuit in federal court between corporate giants with big litigation budgets and terabytes of electronically stored information (ESI). To be sure, the federal …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In 2012, North Carolina was the only state with contested judicial elections in which voters were provided with performance evaluations of the judicial candidates—both sitting judges and …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS IAALS is very sad to note the passing of Professor Penelope Pether, of Villanova Law School. Penny taught at both Villanova and American University, but was an Aussie by birth and education. One of …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Indiana's superior courts are created by statute, and as such, the method of selecting judges is determined by statute as well and varies from county to county. In two counties, superior court judges …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spent a few days last week with us here at IAALS. On Monday, we held a meeting of the O'Connor Advisory Committee to the Quality Judges Initiative , the membership of …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative As IAALS Online has covered in the past , the Coalition for Impartial Justice has been working for several years to move Minnesota from nonpartisan judicial elections to commission-based appointment …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The State Bar of Michigan, which represents more than 43,000 attorneys and judges, has asked the secretary of state to require disclosure of funders of "issue ads" in state elections. Specifically, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education has released its draft report, which highlights proposals and conclusions related to changes in the pricing of legal education, liberalizing or eliminating certain …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In a 5-0 ruling, the Arizona Supreme Court struck down a law that required the state's judicial nominating commission to send the names of five candidates to the governor for possible appointment. …

Robert P. Thompson Former Director of Communications & Marketing Denver, Colo. – Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers , an initiative of IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, announces its second annual …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director We are pleased to announce the newest member of our Consortium of law schools committed to innovation: Touro Law Center . Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg School of Law (Touro Law Center) has been an innovator in the …

Robert P. Thompson Former Director of Communications & Marketing The word is out! The new Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families at the University of Denver is open for business. Media buzz around the first-of-its-kind Center, based on the …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson of the Supreme Court of Texas announced this week that he will  resign from the court  effective October 1. Chief Justice Jefferson has served on the court since …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director This first appeared on August 26, 2013, in the print edition of LawWeek Colorado . The American Bar Association's 2013 Annual Meeting in San Francisco was a sprawling event with thousands of attendees spread out over 20 …

Barbara Blackwell Former Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships As a subscriber to IAALS Online, you are one of our many partners. We thank you for your interest, your input, and your support. We want to share with you a bit more about other ways in …