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Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative As IAALS Online covered back in March , the Kansas legislature adopted a new process for choosing intermediate appellate court judges in the 2013 session. A judicial nominating commission will no …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Unlimited and unmanaged discovery in civil lawsuits can be extremely expensive—and sometimes wholly out of proportion to the needs of the case. In a landmark decision issued this week, the Colorado …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative A new poll by the Center for American Progress assesses voter support for judicial selection changes that are currently under consideration around the country. The highest level of support—80 …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern This fall, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, an Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers consortium school , plans to implement its new Experiential Advantage Curriculum , a program that will focus on placing students …

David Thomson Professor of Practice, University of Denver Sturm College of Law I am pleased to announce that my new book,  Skills & Values: Lawyering Process - Legal Writing and Advocacy  was published by LexisNexis/Matthew Bender last week. Sample copies …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern Mo Weiland, a recent graduate of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, an Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers consortium school , recalls her first  volunteer case  as both unexpectedly challenging and very informative …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Denver, Colo. – Quality Judges , an initiative of IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, has just released A Credit to the Courts: The Selection, Appointment, …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications On Sunday, June 23, 2013, former IAALS Board Member and Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court Patricio M. Serna will be honored as a Santa Fe Living Treasure . The ceremony pays tribute to elders who have …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Judge Kevin Burke, a Minnesota trial judge and member of the IAALS Board of Advisors, seconded Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor's call for selection reform in her state. As IAALS Online covered …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative According to new data from the Center for Public Integrity, outside interest groups spent more than $11.7 million in ten states on supreme court elections—both contested and retention—in 2012 and …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Governor Tom Corbett nominated superior court judge Correale F. Stevens to fill the supreme court vacancy created by former justice Joan Orie Melvin's resignation following her criminal conviction . …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Increasingly, law firms, corporate employers, public interest organizations, government entities, and other organizations that employ lawyers are relying on core competencies when hiring, assessing, and promoting new …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director You may have noticed a new voice in our Honoring Families blog posts. Natalie Knowlton has been with IAALS since 2006 and joined the staff full time in 2008, working first as a Research Analyst across initiatives and …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director This month we are welcoming a new contributor to our ranks. Katherine Kirk  will replace  Cindy Pham , who served as our first student contributor and helped us get IAALS Online off the ground. Like Pham, Kirk will …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Less than a week after the supreme court struck down a civil justice reform measure known as the Comprehensive Lawsuit Reform Act of 2009, some state legislators called for a study of term limits for …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative As IAALS Online has covered in the past, the Tennessee legislature opted not to renew the state's judicial nominating commission, and it is set to expire on June 30. Three appellate judges announced …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation A one-day divorce program that launched this spring in the Sacramento Superior Court is streamlining the process for self-represented litigants who have filed a dissolution of marriage case before the …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Standing Committee”) this week approved a package of amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for publication and public comment. The proposed …

Brittany Kauffman CEO In our recent publication in the Kansas Law Review, " The American Civil Justice System: From Recommendations to Reform in the 21st Century ," we explore the national momentum that has arisen around reducing the costs and delays …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern Following its 2009 decision in Varnum v. Brien overturning the state ban on same-sex marriage, the Iowa Supreme Court recently held that the state must allow same-sex couples to have both their names listed on the birth …