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Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Are the days of retainers and hourly rate billing for legal services over? Probably not, but Avvo, Inc., may be leading the industry in this direction with a new, fixed-fee billing model. Through Avvo Legal Services (ALS), …

Carolyn A. Tyler Former Director of Communications DENVER—This year marks the 10th anniversary of IAALS ’ work to continuously improve America’s legal system and reestablish it as the aspirational model for justice globally. To mark this milestone, IAALS …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director I read my first legal blog in 2004 when, as a new lawyer, I saw Kevin O’Keefe present at a legal conference in Las Vegas. He talked about how lawyers could develop their practices through online tools, like blogs and …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern In January,  Law Week Colorado  covered Denver’s new Center for Out-of-Court Divorce . The Center, based on IAALS’ recommended model for child- and family-centric divorce and separation …

Debra Erenberg Director of State Affairs, Justice at Stake IAALS is celebrating its  10th Anniversary  in 2016. Throughout the year, we will be featuring guest posts from our colleagues and partners to recap our accomplishments and national impact — and …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS At the mid-winter Conference of Chief Justices meeting in late January, the Civil Justice Improvements Committee presented its draft recommendations to the Chiefs. The panel included Judge Greg Mize …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Likened to an emergency tool kit for divorce, DivorceForce.com is one of many online divorce support groups that have been appearing in recent years. Wendy Paris, author of  Splitopia ,  recently interviewed  a co-founder of …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers  Consortium member  Touro Law Center  has released the  second issue of its Journal of Experiential Learning . The issue focuses on incubator and residency programs and their impact on legal …

Francis M. Wikstrom Shareholder, Parsons Behle & Latimer IAALS is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Throughout the year, we will be featuring guest posts from our colleagues and partners to recap our accomplishments and national impact — and look …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS In April, there will be a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for Colorado due to the impending retirement of Judge Robert Blackburn. As with all Article III judgeships, the President will nominate …

Carolyn A. Tyler Former Director of Communications John Moye , IAALS co-founder and Board of Advisors member, was recently honored with the coveted National Association of Secretaries of State Medallion Award . The award is given to an individual who …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern The North Carolina Bar Association is exploring how tweaks in its judicial evaluation process can have real impact on results. As recommended by both the National Center for State Courts and IAALS, the latest performance …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Today, we celebrate ten years of IAALS and ten years of work rebuilding justice across the United States. A milestone, to be sure. One that marks our first chapter in reform of the American legal …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications In December, major changes were made to the rules regarding civil procedure in federal courts. The federal rules refocus and reaffirm the legal community’s commitment to providing a just, speedy, and inexpensive …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Last week, Chief Justice John Roberts dedicated his 2015 year-end report on the State of the Judiciary to extolling the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He stressed that these …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO At the beginning of this month, the  long awaited amendments  to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect. Of the amendments, the one that changed the most following the public comment period was  Rule 37(e) , which …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO An important takeaway from the May 2010 Conference on Civil Litigation held at Duke University Law School, sponsored by the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, was that the disposition of civil actions in our federal courts could …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation The Utah Supreme Court has  approved the development of a new program to help litigants navigate the court system . A Supreme Court Task Force established to examine the issue recommended that Limited …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Throughout the month of December, we've been releasing the 16 Ignite-style presentations given at our 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference by ETL Fellows and faculty from across the ETL Consortium. …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Legal education has been undergoing a great metamorphosis to adapt to a changing legal market. In recent years, we have witnessed an increase of interest in experiential learning, with …