On September 17, 2013, IAALS and the Byron R. White Center brought United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Ret.) to Colorado to deliver the 3rd Annual John Paul Stevens Lecture . The Stevens Lecture brings a well-known jurist to the …
On September 19 and 20, IAALS and the National Judicial College co-hosted the 2nd Annual Educational Summit for State Court Judges: Unlocking E-Discovery. The Summit provided a forum exclusively tailored for state court judges to learn about all facets of …
IAALS hosted a Forum in Denver, Colorado on December 5-6, 2013 for a small group of stakeholders from around the country for the purpose of gathering comments on the proposed federal rules amendments. IAALS brought together a group of lawyers, academics, …
In Spring 2014, IAALS held its annual Rebuilding Justice Award Dinner, which recognizes individuals who exemplify the spirit of innovation and leadership that we champion across all of our work toward building a legal system that is fair, accessible, …
On June 11, 2014, IAALS and the National Judicial College co-hosted Fundamentals of E-Discovery for State Court Judges , a webcast available for state court judges at no cost. In the fall of 2013, IAALS and the NJC co-hosted an educational …
On November 13 and 14, 2014, IAALS convened a group of senior in-house counsel and corporate management from around the country to discuss the challenges surrounding discovery in litigation. The single most expensive aspect of litigation (apart from …
On February 18, 2015, IAALS and the National Judicial College co-hosted E-Discovery Sanctions & Spoliation: What a Judge Needs to Know , a webcast available for state court judges at no cost. This session provided a fundamental-level discussion of the …
Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers hosted its first annual conference, The Development of Professional Identity in Legal Education: Rethinking Learning and Assessment , September 27-29, 2012, at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. This was a …
Asking the Right Questions The oldest advice in the world is that the trick is not in knowing the answers—rather it is in knowing the right questions to ask. In legal education today, we find ourselves facing many questions—from students, from the …
Traditional notions of assessment in legal education have limited our capacity to truly measure whether law students are receiving the education and training they need to enter the profession. Rather than using assessment as a sorting mechanism, …
What Lawyers Need to Succeed In 2014, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers launched Foundations for Practice , an ambitious national project to identify the foundations entry-level lawyers need for practice. 37: The number of states that participated in the …
In Spring 2015, IAALS held its annual Rebuilding Justice Award Dinner, which recognizes individuals who exemplify the spirit of innovation and leadership that we champion across all of our work toward building a legal system that is fair, accessible, …
On February 25-26, 2016, IAALS held its Fourth Civil Justice Reform Summit at the Cable Center on the University of Denver campus. The goal of the Summit was to bring together federal and state court judges, court administrators, attorneys on both sides …
Part of DIAALOGUES, a groundbreaking series of national conversations designed to bring together the best minds in the country to forge solutions to the most pressing issues facing the American legal system. Sponsored by El Pomar Foundation, DIAALOGUES …
