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Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Task Force appointed by the Texas Supreme Court to recommend rules to promote “the prompt, efficient, and cost-effective resolution of civil actions” in response to H.B. 274 was unable to come to an agreement about …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director U.S. Senator and possible 2015 gubernatorial candidate David Vitter urged the state legislature to examine the current process for choosing judges—i.e., partisan elections—and consider moving to merit selection. Mon, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In an article recapping the hearing before a House Judiciary panel on the growing costs of discovery, Eileen Malloy cites Rebecca Love Kourlis' testimony several times, including: “Civil jury trials have all but …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Sofia Adrogué, partner at Looper, Reed & McGraw, and Caroline Baker, a state district judge for more than 14 years, predict that e-discovery will continue to loom large in 2012.  With continued reliance on e-discovery …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for judicial nominees to get an up-or-down vote after 90 days, regardless of whether they could overcome a filibuster. Sun, 02/05/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director After a standoff over judicial appointments brought senate business to a halt, lieutenant governor and 2013 gubernatorial candidate Bill Bolling called for the creation of a bipartisan judicial selection commission. …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Justice Michael Gableman rejected requests that he recuse himself from three cases involving a law firm that defended him for free against an ethics violation charge. Gableman noted that justices should recuse …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Harvard's new Initiative for Learning and Teaching recently kicked off with a conference focused on teaching and learning, including demonstrations of innovative teaching methods. Click here to read the article. Sun, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The latest edition of Rule One Review is now available. Rule One Review is a quarterly newsletter that shares information about pilot projects and other civil rules projects being monitored by the Rule One Initiative . …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A proposal to amend the constitution to establish merit selection and retention for appellate judges and justices met with support and opposition from both Republicans and Democrats in the legislature. The proposal …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The three candidates competing to be the Republican candidate for chief justice of the supreme court raised nearly $150,000 in January for the March primary campaign. Wed, 02/01/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director On the new blog, The Legal Whiteboard , Bill Henderson highlights an article on legal education reform written by an adjunct professor. Henderson: Law professors rarely engage with these critiques; to acknowledge these …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The National Law Journal has compiled a special report of articles focused on costs of e-discovery, including this piece featuring IAALS' executive director Rebecca Love Kourlis . Tue, 01/31/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Beth Tomerlin took Professor David Thomson's Discovery Practicum while still a student at University of Denver Sturm College of Law. In an article for the Denver Bar Association Docket, she discusses the class and how …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director According to campaign finance records, two trial court judges made $100 contributions to an anti-abortion PAC after hearing cases involving abortion-related issues. The two judges serve in Sedgwick County, where judges …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Penny Pether is a Professor of law at Villanova University School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, law and literature, criminal law, and criminal procedure. In her …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house jointly proposed a constitutional amendment that would establish a merit selection and retention system for the state’s appellate judges. If approved by the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director On February 6 at Noon PST, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Rick Hasen (University of California at Irvine School of Law) and Professor James Sample (Hofstra Law) will discuss the impact of Citizens United on …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Two Republican legislators proposed a bill that would require attorneys to disclose to the judge and all parties to a lawsuit any campaign contributions of more than $500 made to that judge by the attorney or the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The District of Columbia Judicial Nominating Commission recommended three public sector attorneys to fill a vacancy on the D.C. superior court. The White House has 60 days to select a nominee, who then appears before …