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Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO On March 7, 2013, Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal entered an Administrative Order recognizing the successful ad hoc use of a Fast Track jury trial process in South Carolina and implementing the voluntary process statewide. The …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Bob Emery is one of the preeminent national experts on issues related to children and divorce. He is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law at the …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative It has been an eventful week judicial selection-wise in the Kansas legislature. As IAALS Online covered last week, conservative legislators and bar leaders were discussing a compromise selection …

John T. Broderick, Jr. Chief Justice (Ret.), New Hampshire Supreme Court As a former Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and a current member of the IAALS Board of Advisors, I commend Governor Maggie Hassan for her wisdom in establishing the …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In a recent speech to the Ohio State Bar Association, Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor identified eight areas in which the state's process for electing judges might be improved. Among the reforms that …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative With Justice Joan Orie Melvin's resignation from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on May 1, Governor Tom Corbett has ninety days to fill the vacancy . Pennsylvania judges are chosen in partisan …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Taking some lawmakers by surprise, prominent Republicans in the house and senate announced that they will continue their pursuit of a constitutional change to the process for selecting supreme court …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications The Hon. Jack Zouhary, federal district court judge and member of the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice , recently penned an article for the Federal Lawyer about his case …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The Tennessee legislature ended its 2013 session without renewing the state's judicial nominating commission , which screens applicants for appellate court vacancies and recommends the best qualified …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Denver, Colo. – Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers , an initiative of IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, is pleased to announce Law Jobs: By the Numbers™ ( …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Numbers matter. As we take on some of the biggest challenges facing the civil justice system, our work depends on the number of stakeholders we bring to the table, our ability to facilitate …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern A recent study by IAALS board member  Russell Wheeler , a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, analyzes the politics behind the  high number of judicial vacancies without nominees . Wheeler examines judicial …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern A study from the  Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics  shows "law students who found ways to exercise their top strengths in daily life were less likely to report depression and more likely to report satisfaction." …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Governor Maggie Hassan signed an executive order establishing a judicial selection commission to advise her in filling vacancies on the state's courts. Hassan is the third New Hampshire governor to …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern Last week, in  Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl , the  U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments   to decide whether custody rights of a three-year-old girl should go to her adoptive parents or her biological father, who is a member of …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern Under British Columbia's new Family Relations Act , unmarried couples who have lived together for more than two years will now have the same property rights as married couples. The changes went into effect March 18 and …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO IAALS has played an important role in empowering jurisdictions to experiment with pilot projects and rules changes. Today, we are making information about these programs more accessible to all by launching Action on the Ground , …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director If there's one thing the people in the room at the ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education can agree on today , it's that something has to give. But just what has to give? That still seems to be up for debate. …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The  ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education  is meeting today in Indianapolis at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law. The meeting is available via live webcast here . The Task Force is charged with …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative A group of Republican members of the house of representatives have proposed cutting the pay of the four remaining Iowa Supreme Court justices who participated in Varnum v. Brien , a unanimous 2009 …