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Zachary Willis Director of Communications Denver, Colo. – IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, announces the release of our final findings on Colorado's experiment with new court procedures …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Cara Cunningham Warren, Associate Professor of Legal Writing & Research at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, has written a forthcoming paper titled " Achieving the American Bar Association's Pedagogy Mandate: …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Earlier this month,  Law Week Colorado   published an article highlighting IAALS' report  Choosing Judges: Judicial Nominating Commissions and the Selection of Supreme Court Justices …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern A Netherlands company is  headed to New York to establish a "divorce hotel." Couples with uncomplicated divorces can spend a weekend at the hotel to work through the process quickly with mediators and independent lawyers, with …

Brittany Kauffman CEO After reviewing the public comments , and making some changes in response, the Iowa Supreme Court has approved a new expedited civil action rule (ECA rule) and a package of new rules and amendments collectively referred to as “ the …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern A recent article in The New York Times  argues that divorced and never-married parents have, in a sense, lost their right to choose how they want to parent. A 1936 New York State Court of Appeals opinion gives "[t]he vast …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Last month,  Suffolk University Law School , an  Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers  Consortium school, hosted the first-ever  "Hackcess to Justice" legal hackathon . The event was designed to bring together some of the best legal …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The outcome of governors' races in at least two states— Florida and Kansas —will have meaningful implications for those states' courts. Florida's next governor could have the opportunity to fill four …

Brittany Kauffman CEO On Tuesday, September 16, the Judicial Conference of the United States forwarded the proposed rule amendments to the Supreme Court with the recommendation that they be adopted. The announcement  recognized that these amendments …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Hello all! Riley Combelic, here. I am a third-year law student at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law focusing on corporate and securities law. This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (September 18-20), I will be …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern A recent  ABA survey report found that self-help legal centers around the nation "are a vibrant and effective resource" to those they serve. The ABA's Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services surveyed approximately …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The Colorado Supreme Court has extended the Colorado Civil Access Pilot Project (CAPP) for another six months, through June 30, 2015. The pilot project , which was originally schedule to run through December 31, 2013, had already …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative On August 7, three Tennessee Supreme Court justices withstood a well-funded (and well-covered by IAALS Online:  here , here , and here ) challenge to their retention on the bench for subsequent …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Under our Rule One Initiative , we have focused much of our time and effort over the last seven years on ways to improve the effectiveness of discovery. In large part, this is due to the expanding world of information—including …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation IAALS would like to congratulate Kansas Court of Appeals Judge Steve Leben on being named the 2014 recipient of the William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence. The National Center for State …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Chad G. Asarch recently wrote an article in The Colorado Lawyer discussing the Real Estate Transactions course he teaches, which emphasizes practical legal skills in a non-clinical, traditional classroom setting. In …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern There have been a few new resources made available for separating or divorcing families in the United Kingdom. The first is the  Family Separation Hub , a website that provides information to families who are going through, or …

Melinda Taylor Clerk of Court, Denver Juvenile Court Former Executive Director, Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families A year ago today, the Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families (RCSDF or Resource Center) opened its doors …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In May, we launched Foundations for Practice , an ambitious project that will study the foundations entry-level lawyers need to launch successful careers, identify models of legal education to get us there, and develop …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The latest round of proposed amendments published for comment appear to be just housekeeping measures, and therefore are not nearly as significant as the proposed amendments that were published for comment last August , and which we …