It's been just over six months since we launched Law Jobs: By the Numbers™, the interactive online tool that gives prospective law students the most transparent and complete law school employment rate information available. Since launch, nearly… MORE
IAALS is extremely grateful for the unwavering generosity of the Gates Frontiers Fund. Entirely supported by gifts and grants, IAALS values support at every level. From time to time, we will pause to celebrate our donors, and today we begin by… MORE
Last week, Bill Sullivan, lead author of Educating Lawyers and the founding director of Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers, did an interview with Insight Labs on the future of law, discussing legal education (and reform history), the Carnegie Report,… MORE
In 2012, IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis was named an Honorary Diplomate of ABOTA—the American Board of Trial Advocates. She received the award last month in Austin, Texas, when she presented at the ABOTA National Jury Summit 2013.… MORE
Professor John Lande of the University of Missouri School of Law gives students a realistic and comprehensive perspective on legal negotiation through a semester-long simulated experience in his Negotiation course. In this second or third… MORE
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 case reading, so that they have… MORE
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 our audience of legal educators… MORE
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 (video below) focused on the… MORE
O'Connor Advisory Committee member and former Texas chief justice Wallace Jefferson recently appeared on MSNBC's Craig Melvin show. That segment of the program focused on the findings of the latest New Politics of Judicial Elections report… MORE
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 elections influence judges' decisions in cases involving… MORE