Second Edition
In 2007, following the adoption of the 2006 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, IAALS published its first edition of Navigating the Hazards of E-Discovery, A Manual for Judges in State Courts Across The Nation. Since… MORE
This publication couples the desired attributes for court systems and individual judges identified by participants in the IAALS Roundtable on Judicial Selection with principles (or “cornerstones”) for judicial selection processes that are most… MORE
IAALS has worked in the area of judicial performance evaluation (JPE) from its inception in January 2006. In August 2008, IAALS convened its first conference on JPE—Judicial Performance Evaluation: Strategies for Success—which focused on the… MORE
Second Edition
Committees that U.S. senators use to vet would-be federal district judges whom they might recommend to the White House are a little known but substantial part of the landscape of federal judicial selection. The number of committees… MORE
This publication synthesizes the results of four recent studies exploring how attorneys and trial judges across the nation view the civil justice system.
Survey respondents overwhelmingly agreed that cost is a concern; delay increases cost; and… MORE
Four years ago, concerns about skyrocketing costs, unprofessional gamesmanship, and long delays in civil litigation were the stuff of grousing and shoulder shrugs. We all had a level of fatalism or cynicism about our inability to change any of those… MORE
This survey asked state and federal judges questions about the civil legal system, and in particular, some of the civil process reforms advanced by IAALS and the ACTL Task Force.
This report was published in Pace Law Review (PLR): Corina Gerety,… MORE
Colorado’s voluntary simplified pretrial procedure for actions seeking $100,000 or less from any one party was set up to reduce the time to disposition and reduce costs for litigants.
But our survey shows use of the rules is relatively infrequent… MORE
The final installment of a three-part series that gives courts willing to try pilot projects a means for empirical evaluation of civil rules reforms and how they should be measured.
Those who are involved in the civil jury process know first-hand of the genius and value of trial by jury. Juries represent the collective wisdom and objectivity of a group of citizens who are called together to apply their common sense and agree on… MORE