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Bill Sullivan Senior Scholar, Center for Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, Wabash College The Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers survey, carried out last year, provides an unparalleled overview of what is happening in legal education today, giving an update of the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The California bar’s task force is set to issue recommendations in December 2013 regarding whether to impose a practical skills training requirement on lawyers applying for admission.  Whether the country’s largest bar …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The University of California Hastings College announced that it will reduce enrollment by 20% over the next three years. "The critics of legal education are right," Dean Frank Wu said in a telephone interview on April …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The governor asked a judicial nominating commission to submit the name of more than one candidate for a district court judgeship for which only four attorneys applied. All four applicants—two Republicans and two …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Despite an earlier agreement to move forward with Senate confirmation of judicial nominees, Senator Al Franken and others report that the process remains acrimonious. Nearly one in 10 seats on the federal bench are …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A judicial selection task force made seven recommendations and offered draft legislation to improve the process for selecting supreme court justices. Recommendations including nominating candidates in open primaries …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The senate approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the governor to appoint appellate judges with legislative confirmation. The proposal would give the general assembly sixty days to act on a …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The senate passed a bill that would make the Tennessee Plan—which calls for merit selection, retention elections, and performance evaluation of appellate judges—constitutional. If the measure is approved by the house, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Numbers may prevent a disciplinary complaint against Justice David Prosser from going any further. Prosser formally requested that two justices recuse themselves from consideration of the complaint against him, and he …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A Republican legislator called for an investigation into whether three supreme court justices violated state election law in using court employees to help file their retention candidacy paperwork. The justices learned …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The three supreme court justices standing for retention in November share major campaign contributors with Fair Districts Now, an organization that supported redistricting amendments considered by the court in February. …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Last week, we announced that we now recognize ETL Fellows for their contributions to legal education. Professor Benjamin Madison of Regent University School of Law is among our first six. This article by his school …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director LawWeek Colorado recently featured a story on Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers , highlighting the twenty law schools around the country that have already joined our efforts. The article included interviews with three …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Republican Allen Loughry, who is running for the supreme court of appeals, is the only one of eight candidates to seek public campaign financing through the state’s pilot program. The public financing program provides …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A district court judge may have violated the state’s code of judicial conduct by writing a letter soliciting campaign contributions for a fellow judge who is running for a state supreme court seat. If a complaint is …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The supreme court adopted new rules that bar individual judges from taking budget requests and suggestions for revisions to the law directly to legislators without first getting appropriate approval. These rules are in …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A state senator criticized Governor Christie for not taking action on longstanding superior court vacancies. A shortage of judges recently led to a four-month suspension of civil trials in the state’s busiest …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director By a 5-4 vote, the state judicial nominating commission voted to bar its members from contributing to or actively participating in any judicial race in the state, including the retention elections of three supreme court …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Professor Amy Landers discusses the upside of interactive casebooks. Now available as part of some  paper-format textbooks, students can link to the subject matter of the cases, including clips of songs, images, and …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Washington & Lee law professor and Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Fellow Jim Moliterno recently presented at Pepperdine Law Review Symposium on “The Lawyer of the Future.” Moliterno observes that the root cause of the …