IAALS drafted this report coming out of its Forum for Understanding and Comment on the Federal Rules Amendments, which was held on December 5, 2013.
The Forum brought together a group of approximately forty lawyers, academics, and judges from… MORE
IAALS and the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice submitted comments on the proposed Federal Rule Amendments.
The comment provides a summary of the pilot project and rules reform activity around the country,… MORE
This report is the culmination of a joint project between IAALS and the American College of Trial Lawyers, which involved interviewing nearly 30 state and federal trial court judges, from diverse jurisdictions nationwide, who were identified as… MORE
Recognizing that appellate Judicial Performance Evaluation (JPE) programs have largely been patterned after programs for trial judges, IAALS is pleased to offer recommendations and tools for evaluating the performance of appellate judges that are… MORE
In response to increasing pressures on the civil justice system, both at the state and federal level, many jurisdictions around the country have implemented an alternative process that is designed to provide litigants with speedy and less expensive… MORE
The implementation of recent civil rules projects, which are aimed at better achieving the goals of a just, speedy, and inexpensive civil justice system, has revealed important considerations for any effort to change procedures.
In this report, we… MORE
In 2012, IAALS published the second edition of Navigating the Hazards of E-Discovery: A Manual for Judges in State Courts Across the Nation, which serves as a manual for state court judges and anyone who needs a basic resource that includes the… MORE
In March 2013, IAALS sponsored “An Uncommon Dialogue” about judicial selection. IAALS convened a group of thirty legal experts for two days to share perspectives on essential attributes for judges and how to put judges with those attributes on the… MORE
This white paper describes the premises and policies for the Honoring Families Initiative (HFI). The goal of the paper and, more broadly, of HFI’s projects, is to offer new models of service delivery in order to facilitate an informed national… MORE
The Quality Judges Initiative's recommendations for reviewing written opinions as part of a performance evaluation program for appellate judges were featured in Trends in State Courts 2013, an annual publication of the National Center for State… MORE