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Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In the last few weeks, legislators in two states have passed laws aimed at influencing upcoming supreme court decisions. In Kansas,  trouble has brewed  between the judiciary and the other two …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern In a  recent paper , LexisNexis examined a study of legal employers’ perceptions of recent law school graduates. In a survey of 300 hiring partners and senior associates, 95% believed that law students lack key practical skills …

Brittany Kauffman CEO This month, IAALS will  convene a group of plaintiffs’ attorneys  from Colorado and around the country to discuss the present and future impact of civil justice reform in the United States. Over the last ten years, there have been …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative With three of the seven seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court up for election in November, the stakes were high in the May 19 primaries, in which six candidates in each party vied for nominations. …

Brittany Kauffman CEO IAALS and the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice’s joint report,  Reforming Our Civil Justice System: A Report on Progress & Promise , continues to garner attention at a national level. In its …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern The  52nd Annual Conference of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts  (AFCC) is taking place this week in New Orleans, and representatives from IAALS will be taking part in the discussions. The conference,  Children …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Congratulations to Professor JoNel Newman, University of Miami School of Law, on her selection for the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education’s M. Shanara Gilbert Award. The award honors an “emerging clinician” with ten or …

Brittany Kauffman CEO On February 25-26, 2016, IAALS will hold its Fourth Civil Justice Reform Summit:  Creating the Just, Speedy, and Inexpensive Courts of Tomorrow . We are on the cusp of important change in our civil justice system .  We expect to see …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Three years ago, we launched  Law Jobs: By the Numbers , an interactive online tool that gives prospective law students the most transparent and complete law school employment rate information available. With the …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Technology has impacted the legal profession greatly, yet many attorneys are not keeping up—at least, according to some judges. In a  recent survey , roughly 32 percent of judge respondents said that lawyers lack the knowledge …

Karen Mathis Former Associate Executive Director The League of Women Voters of Colorado is recognizing IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis with its  2015 Leader of Democracy Award  on June 17. I can't think of a more appropriate recipient of …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Corina D. Gerety Former Director of Research, IAALS A year ago, we launched  Foundations for Practice  and kicked off a study to achieve the project’s first objective: to identify the foundations entry-level lawyers …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation The Modern Family Court Judge: Knowledge, Qualities, and Skills for Success , originally published by the  Honoring Families Initiative  in October 2014, has been republished in the  April 2015 …

Brittany Kauffman CEO On April 29, 2015, the United States Supreme Court  adopted amendments  to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and submitted them to Congress. The long-awaited amendments, often described as a “package” of complementary amendments, …

Robert P. Thompson Former Director of Communications & Marketing Last week, IAALS honored the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice at the 8th Annual Rebuilding Justice Award Dinner in downtown Denver. With …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In a ruling that took some fair courts advocates by surprise, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the authority of states to bar judges and judicial candidates from personally soliciting campaign …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern The 2015 Annual Meeting of The Association of American Law School (AALS), entitled  Legal Education at the Crossroads , provided much discussion around the critical choices facing law schools. Alli Gerkman, Director of  …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The  American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)  has long been a leader in preserving and promoting the civil jury trial right provided by the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This week ABOTA hosts a National Jury Summit in …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern In a  recent paper , Professors Chew and Pryal, University of North Carolina School of Law, identified areas where legal employers’ expectations concerning law students and recent graduates diverge. Through an anonymous survey …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The 640-page  Agenda Book  reflects the broad range of matters currently being tackled by the federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee, which met in Washington, D.C., on April 9. Issues include the  proposed rule amendments  currently …