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Jordan Furlong Principal, Law21 Three people who’d never heard of an elephant before were blindfolded and brought forward to encounter this remarkable animal. The first felt its trunk and said, “It’s like a snake.” The second felt its side and said, “It’s …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession Last week, thousands of eager candidates for state bar admission once again gathered across the country to sit for …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In June 2021, the Colorado Supreme Court amended its Code of Judicial Conduct to expressly prohibit harassment, retaliation, and other inappropriate workplace behavior. The amendments are part of a more significant effort to …

Anna Carpenter Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Project Director for Presidential Initiatives, University of Utah President’s Office Alyx Mark Assistant Professor of Government, Wesleyan University 2020 was a year of  …

Kathryn A. Reilly Firm President, Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP Andrew Unthank Partner & Recruiting Chair, Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP At Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell (WTO), we’ve been fortunate to have a front-row seat to the outcomes and transformation that …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession On June 28, the Special Committee to Improve the Delivery of Legal Services submitted its  final report  to the Florida Supreme Court, recommending that  Florida adopt  a Law …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager In May, the  Colorado Judicial Branch announced  that a pilot program allowing documents in family court cases to be filed online will expand to seven more counties. The two-year pilot program …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager If the first step to fixing a problem is admitting there is one, the second step is understanding the scope of that problem—why it exists, how it persists, and who it’s affecting. And, when it …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS is pleased to announce that  Amy Livingston  has joined the organization as its new Director of Development. Livingston comes to IAALS after consulting with nonprofit clients and philanthropists to secure …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure IAALS’ report,  Building a Better Bar: The Twelve Building Blocks of Minimum Competence , provides the first-ever empirically grounded definition of the minimum competence required to practice …

Michele Pistone Director of Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services and Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law The COVID-19 pandemic required the entire legal education system—along with every other educational …

David Yellen Former CEO I am thrilled to have officially joined IAALS as CEO on June 1. Throughout my career—including serving a combined 14 years as law school dean at Hofstra University and Loyola University Chicago, as well as president of Marist …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager On June 9, IAALS co-hosted the first session of the  Redesigning Legal Speaker Series , bringing together over 150 people to learn about and discuss the regulatory changes underway, the challenges …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager In May, the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) at Fordham Law School published the latest iteration of the  Justice Index , a national survey of state civil justice policies that provides …

Jordan M. Singer Consultant, IAALS Professor of Law, New England Law | Boston What qualities do Americans want in their state judges? Professor Herbert Kritzer, the Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, addresses …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Last October, IAALS published the groundbreaking report Building a Better Bar: The Twelve Building Blocks of Minimum Competence , containing clear, evidence-based recommendations and …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO Pilot projects have long been used when implementing reforms—they provide a smaller-scale testing ground to administer the changes, they create an opportunity to gain broader support for innovation, and they allow for evaluation …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager On May 1, amendments to the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect, several of which provide better notice of parties’ rights and obligations at the outset and throughout a lawsuit. The rule amendments are also paired …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO In a guest column for the Montana Standard , former Montana Supreme Court Justice James C. Nelson calls for the implementation of a merit-based judicial selection process to keep Montana’s courts free from partisanship and …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager In March, IAALS wrapped up our Pandemic Positives Speaker Series , bringing together a number of courts and legal service providers who, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, transformed their …