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Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Over the summer, the Tennessee legislature declined to renew the state's judicial nominating commission, which was used to recommend well-qualified candidates for appellate judgeships to the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Much of the work on core competencies for entry-level lawyers has focused on large firms, often because it has been harder to collect this information from small firms. This is a challenge because small and medium firms …

Robert P. Thompson Former Director of Communications & Marketing IAALS is honored to be featured front and center in the Fall 2013 edition of The Bulletin , a publication of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). The article chronicles the six year …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative As Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts , a longtime advocate of judicial selection reform, celebrates its 25th year, supporters of moving from partisan elections to commission-based appointment of the …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern Judge Kevin Burke , Minnesota District Court Judge and member of the IAALS Board of Advisors, has written about the ideas and lessons of Roscoe Pound, former Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916-1936, and what  the legal …

Corina D. Gerety Former Director of Research, IAALS Over the past few years, IAALS has been tracking the Colorado Civil Access Pilot Project, along with numerous other rules projects across the country . These efforts are aimed at providing greater access …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO As many have recognized , electronic discovery has arrived in the state courts, with challenges that are as big and complicated as in federal court. State courts are faced with a wide variety of dockets, a large number of cases, …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Thanks to a working group of judges and lawyers, California's Administrative Office of the Courts now offers a required course on judicial ethics for incumbent judges and attorney challengers running …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative IAALS Online readers are familiar with recent efforts to alter the process for selecting Kansas' appellate judges. Supporters of increased funding for public schools are concerned about the impact …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern Chad C. Schmucker, former state court administrator and circuit judge of Jackson County, Michigan, will become the 8th president of the  National Judicial College in 2014. As president, he will work to provide innovative …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative At a recent public forum, Ohio's three newest supreme court justices discussed the threat posed to state courts by significant turnover on the bench. Over the next six years, four of the high court's …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Opponents of commission-based appointment of judges—also known as the Missouri Plan, for the state in which the judicial selection process originated—have obtained  approval from the secretary of …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO Judge Paul W. Grimm is well known for his contributions in the area of improving the pretrial discovery process, particularly with regard to the discovery of electronically stored information. In addition to his many other …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Two retired judges will co-chair a new task force on judicial independence established by the New Jersey Bar Association. According to the bar association's president, the task force will direct its …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation On September 3, the Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families at the University of Denver opened its doors to metro-area families. The Center is a model for providing interdisciplinary, …

Steven S. Gensler When most people think of electronic discovery, they probably envision a lawsuit in federal court between corporate giants with big litigation budgets and terabytes of electronically stored information (ESI). To be sure, the federal …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In 2012, North Carolina was the only state with contested judicial elections in which voters were provided with performance evaluations of the judicial candidates—both sitting judges and …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS IAALS is very sad to note the passing of Professor Penelope Pether, of Villanova Law School. Penny taught at both Villanova and American University, but was an Aussie by birth and education. One of …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Indiana's superior courts are created by statute, and as such, the method of selecting judges is determined by statute as well and varies from county to county. In two counties, superior court judges …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spent a few days last week with us here at IAALS. On Monday, we held a meeting of the O'Connor Advisory Committee to the Quality Judges Initiative , the membership of …