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  • Reaching Students' Heads, Hands, Hearts

    Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Rebecca Love Kourlis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) and retired Colorado Supreme Court justice, discusses Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers and the importance of …

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  • Law School Survey of Student Engagement

    Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Law School Survey of Student Engagement is administered to all students at participating law schools via the Internet. In 2010, 77 law schools participated. The objective of the survey is to "provide data to law …

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  • An Interim Evaluation of Utah's Legal Regulatory Sandbox

    Part 4: Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Jessica Bednarz Director of Legal Services and the Profession Courtney Petersen-Rhead Program Associate James Teufel Evaluation and …

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    Uncomplicated Courts Initiative

    The high-volume justice journey simplified Countless people across the United States navigate legal issues without the help of a lawyer. This new norm in our courts leaves millions of everyday people to fend for themselves when facing high-stakes legal …
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  • An Interim Evaluation of Utah's Legal Regulatory Sandbox

    Part 3: Outcomes Evaluation Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Jessica Bednarz Director of Legal Services and the Profession James Teufel Evaluation and Regulatory Reform Consultant In the fall of 2020, the Utah Supreme Court …

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  • A Blueprint for Judicial Innovation

    Takeaways from Advancing Innovation: A National Summit on Judicial Leadership Danielle Kalil Director of Civil Justice and the Judiciary Throughout the country, courts are grappling with unmet legal needs, complex and opaque processes, widening …

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  • An Interim Evaluation of Utah's Legal Regulatory Sandbox

    Part 2: Process Evaluation Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Jessica Bednarz Director of Legal Services and the Profession James Teufel Evaluation and Regulatory Reform Consultant In the fall of 2020, the Utah Supreme Court …

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  • An Interim Evaluation of Utah's Legal Regulatory Sandbox

    Part 1: Sandbox Background and Evaluation Design Overview Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Jessica Bednarz Director of Legal Services and the Profession In the fall of 2020, the Utah Supreme Court launched the nation’s first …

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  • Regulating AI in the Delivery of Consumer-Facing Legal Services

    Unlocking Legal Regulation Jessica Bednarz Director of Legal Services and the Profession Ericka Byram Program Associate IAALS has been at the forefront of efforts to rethink how the legal profession regulates the delivery of legal services. While the …

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  • Building Bridges

    Guidelines for Creating Reciprocity between Allied Legal Professional Programs Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects Courtney Petersen-Rhead Program Associate Kristy Clairmont Director, Career Development, University of Arizona James E. Rogers …

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    Unlocking Legal Regulation

    Re-envisioning how people can get legal services Too many people cannot effectively access our legal system to protect their rights and resolve their disputes. Studies show that Americans seek lawyers for help or consider doing so for only 16% of the …
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    Allied Legal Professionals

    Establishing a new, affordable tier of legal professionals Up and down the income scale, the legal needs of Americans are going unmet. The inability to afford a lawyer, among other factors, has led to ballooning rates of self-representation in our justice …
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  • Recommendations for Modernizing Judicial Performance Evaluation

    Danielle Kalil Director of Civil Justice and the Judiciary This report presents updated recommendations that should guide the future of judicial performance evaluation (JPE) in the United States, developed through IAALS' JPE 2.0 project . Recommendations …

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    Pathways to Legal Licensure

    Building stronger pathways to licensing lawyers We know that closed-book, multiple-choice, memory-based tests do not reflect real-world lawyering or client-facing skills, and are thus not an ideal way to assess minimum competence for law practice. We also …
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    Judicial Performance Evaluation 2.0

    Creating modern approaches to assessing judge performance Most Americans undergo job evaluations, and there is no reason why judges should not do the same. Judicial performance evaluation (JPE) processes were first developed in the 1980s and provide a …
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  • Unlocking Legal Regulation

    Lessons Learned and Recommendations for the Future Jessica Bednarz Director of Legal Services and the Profession Through its Unlocking Legal Regulation work, IAALS is deeply involved in regulatory innovation happening across the United States. The …

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  • National Perspectives on Judicial Performance Evaluation

    Danielle Kalil Director of Civil Justice and the Judiciary Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure James Swearingen Former Research Analyst This report details survey findings from judges across eight states—Alaska, Colorado, …

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    Above the Line Network

    Increasing access to justice for the middle class Middle-class Americans face daunting challenges finding affordable legal help when they need it. They are “above the line” of income eligibility for the free legal aid reserved for the poorest Americans, …
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