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Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative As IAALS Online covered back in April , the Arizona legislature passed and the governor signed a bill directing the state's judicial nominating commissions to submit the names of at least five …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern A group of twenty teenagers in the United Kingdom who have been affected by separation or divorce are banding together to  create a service  that will help teens cope with divorce. The website will provide mentoring and …

Wes Reber Porter Associate Professor of Law and Director of Litigation Center, Golden Gate University School of Law If the current law school model is dilapidated, then the remodel requires more than a face-lift; it requires real structural and …

Corina D. Gerety Former Director of Research, IAALS The Colorado Civil Access Pilot Project Applicable to Business Actions in District Court (CAPP) has been extended by one year, now applying to relevant cases filed through December 31, 2014. All other …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern A  new report  from the Brennan Center for Justice highlights the unprecedented number of judicial vacancies in federal district courts across the United States. Approximately ten percent of federal trial court seats are …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative As IAALS Online covered last week , controversy arose in Kansas over Governor Brownback's announcement that he would not release the names of applicants for a court of appeals vacancy. The governor …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern In 2012, the  divorce rate in China  exceeded the marriage rate. According to China's Ministry of Civil Affairs, 2.87 million people applied for divorce in 2012, a seven percent increase from the year prior. Thirteen …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Our recommendations for reviewing written opinions as part of a performance evaluation program for appellate judges are featured in Trends in State Courts 2013 , an annual publication of the National …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Two recent appointments to Maryland's court of appeals mark "firsts" in diversity for the state's highest court. Governor Martin O'Malley's elevation of Judge Mary Ellen Barbera to be chief judge …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Following an 18-month study, a Wisconsin state bar task force proposed that supreme court justices serve a single 16-year term. Justices currently serve 10-year terms and may stand for reelection. …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in  Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl . The case presented the issue of whether the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a law meant to minimize the involuntary removal of …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative As IAALS Online covered back in March , the Kansas legislature adopted a new process for choosing intermediate appellate court judges in the 2013 session. A judicial nominating commission will no …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Unlimited and unmanaged discovery in civil lawsuits can be extremely expensive—and sometimes wholly out of proportion to the needs of the case. In a landmark decision issued this week, the Colorado …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative A new poll by the Center for American Progress assesses voter support for judicial selection changes that are currently under consideration around the country. The highest level of support—80 …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern This fall, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, an Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers consortium school , plans to implement its new Experiential Advantage Curriculum , a program that will focus on placing students …

David Thomson Professor of Practice, University of Denver Sturm College of Law I am pleased to announce that my new book,  Skills & Values: Lawyering Process - Legal Writing and Advocacy  was published by LexisNexis/Matthew Bender last week. Sample copies …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern Mo Weiland, a recent graduate of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, an Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers consortium school , recalls her first  volunteer case  as both unexpectedly challenging and very informative …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Denver, Colo. – Quality Judges , an initiative of IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, has just released A Credit to the Courts: The Selection, Appointment, …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications On Sunday, June 23, 2013, former IAALS Board Member and Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court Patricio M. Serna will be honored as a Santa Fe Living Treasure . The ceremony pays tribute to elders who have …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Judge Kevin Burke, a Minnesota trial judge and member of the IAALS Board of Advisors, seconded Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor's call for selection reform in her state. As IAALS Online covered …