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Zachary Willis Director of Communications Editor's Note: Anna Carpenter, Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, is the inaugural recipient of the Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award, which …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager September is National Preparedness Month , and with natural disasters increasing in severity—and with COVID-19 still wreaking havoc worldwide—it is important for courts …

David Yellen Former CEO Constitution Day, September 17, commemorates that date in 1787 when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia. Clearly, this date and this holiday do not attract nearly as much …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession Last August, Utah made history as the first state to establish a regulatory sandbox, providing a space for lawyers …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager On August 24, IAALS co-hosted the second session of the Redesigning Legal Speaker Series , bringing together an audience of 145 people to learn about and discuss how lawyers and other legal …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure It’s no secret that the United States is deeply embroiled in a justice crisis. According to the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index , the U.S. ranks 30th out of the world’s 37 …

Brittany Kauffman CEO In the fall of 2019, IAALS and HiiL joined forces and launched a nationwide study to assess the justice needs of individuals in the United States. Today we have released a comprehensive report summarizing the results of this study, …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Kelsey Montague Director of Marketing and Public Relations A report from IAALS and HiiL highlights the breadth and scope of the American access to justice issue, including racial, ethnic, and socio-economic …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager Last month, former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson and former Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor penned an op-ed for NBC News calling for an end to lifetime appointments on the U.S. Supreme …

Jordan Furlong Principal, Law21 Three people who’d never heard of an elephant before were blindfolded and brought forward to encounter this remarkable animal. The first felt its trunk and said, “It’s like a snake.” The second felt its side and said, “It’s …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession Last week, thousands of eager candidates for state bar admission once again gathered across the country to sit for …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In June 2021, the Colorado Supreme Court amended its Code of Judicial Conduct to expressly prohibit harassment, retaliation, and other inappropriate workplace behavior. The amendments are part of a more significant effort to …

Anna Carpenter Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Project Director for Presidential Initiatives, University of Utah President’s Office Alyx Mark Assistant Professor of Government, Wesleyan University 2020 was a year of  …

Kathryn A. Reilly Firm President, Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP Andrew Unthank Partner & Recruiting Chair, Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP At Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell (WTO), we’ve been fortunate to have a front-row seat to the outcomes and transformation that …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession On June 28, the Special Committee to Improve the Delivery of Legal Services submitted its  final report  to the Florida Supreme Court, recommending that  Florida adopt  a Law …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager In May, the  Colorado Judicial Branch announced  that a pilot program allowing documents in family court cases to be filed online will expand to seven more counties. The two-year pilot program …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager If the first step to fixing a problem is admitting there is one, the second step is understanding the scope of that problem—why it exists, how it persists, and who it’s affecting. And, when it …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS is pleased to announce that  Amy Livingston  has joined the organization as its new Director of Development. Livingston comes to IAALS after consulting with nonprofit clients and philanthropists to secure …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure IAALS’ report,  Building a Better Bar: The Twelve Building Blocks of Minimum Competence , provides the first-ever empirically grounded definition of the minimum competence required to practice …

Michele Pistone Director of Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services and Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law The COVID-19 pandemic required the entire legal education system—along with every other educational …