This report is a must read for small and mid-sized businesses and organizations without e-discovery plans in place.
It provides a guide to creating and implementing sound practices with proactive recommendations that will help your business prepare… MORE
Chief Justice Ronald George recently announced the formation of the Commission for Impartial Courts, a new state commission that will study ways to protect California courts from attacks on their independence while at the same time ensuring the… MORE
This article proposes a two-pronged, comprehensive approach to providing proper, relevant information to voters on candidates in contested judicial elections.
This article summarizes the results of a recent comprehensive study of an existing but underutilized approach to process-oriented judicial accountability: judicial performance evaluation (JPE).
The IAALS study concluded that, if properly designed… MORE
IAALS reached out to those in the trenches—businesses, courts, and the legal community—to provide a snapshot of today’s electronic discovery landscape.
This report explores the real world implications of e-discovery and the impact of the 2006… MORE
A companion to Shared Expectations, this publication provides useful tools to aid jurisdictions interested in establishing or improving a judicial performance evaluation program.
IAALS' first publication in 2006 offers an overview of JPE standards and programs nationwide.
It was one of our most requested and accessed publications.
This study assesses whether, as some claim, there is empirical evidence that women and minority judges are evaluated less favorably than their Caucasian male colleagues.
We find that judges in four states with longstanding judicial performance… MORE
In August of 2011, IAALS convened a national conference on appellate judicial performance evaluation (JPE)—Evaluating Appellate Judges: Preserving Integrity, Maintaining Accountability. Throughout the course of the conference, participants returned… MORE
A subcommittee of the O’Connor Advisory Committee developed a set of goals to pursue and principles to follow in the selection, composition, and operation of judicial nominating commissions.
Rather than constituting a “one size fits all”… MORE