A Report on the IAALS Convening Russell Wheeler President, Governance Institute Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution Former Deputy Director, Federal Judicial Center Senior Fellow, IAALS Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative …
Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Riyaz Samnani Project Consultant, Court Compass Our studies show that the court system does an insufficient job helping people navigate their way through the system to resolution. People feel …
In July 2016, the Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ) and the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) endorsed 13 recommendations for improving the American civil justice system. The report and recommendations, titled Call to Action: Achieving …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure This report analyzes data from the Foundations for Practice survey regarding hiring practices and answers this question: How can employers hire new lawyers …
An Updated Blueprint for Judicial Performance Evaluation Since opening its doors in 2006, IAALS has been at the forefront of efforts to improve and expand programs for evaluating the on-the-bench performance of judges, and we have earned a reputation as …
Ideas for Impact from IAALS’ Fourth Civil Justice Reform Summit Brittany Kauffman CEO In February 2016, IAALS hosted its Fourth Civil Justice Reform Summit. The goal of the Summit was to bring together federal and state court judges, court administrators, …
Recommendations to the Conference of Chief Justices by the Civil Justice Improvements Committee Over the last two years, IAALS has worked alongside the National Center for State Courts to support the efforts of the Conference of Chief Justices’ Civil …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure This is the lead report in a series of reports that explore the results of the Foundations for Practice survey. The Foundations for Practice survey was …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure This report describes the Foundations for Practice survey and methodology used for the foundations and describes the demographics and practice-specific …
Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure In June 2016, IAALS convened a group of people from around the country to discuss …
Evaluating a New Model for Separation and Divorce in a University Setting Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Corina D. Gerety Former Director of Research, IAALS Marsha Kline Pruett Maconda Brown O'Connor Professor, Smith …
Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation In November 2015, the Honoring Families Initiative hosted the Family Bar Summit: Shaping the System for the Families We Serve . The two-day event brought together diverse leaders of the family law bar …
Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Corina D. Gerety Former Director of Research, IAALS Janet Drobinske Senior Executive Legal Assistant Many litigants navigating state …
Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Many litigants navigating state family courts today are without attorney representation—in some courts, these numbers are increasing. Justice system stakeholders have made significant efforts in the …
IAALS has been working to improve and expand judicial performance evaluation programs since our founding in 2006. One of the major challenges these programs face is effectively communicating JPE results with voters. Recent public opinion research shows …
Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In 33 states and the District of Columbia, judicial nominating commissions play a part in selecting at least some judges. States have adopted commission-based appointment of judges, as called for in …
Top 10 Cultural Shifts Needed to Create the Courts of Tomorrow Brittany Kauffman CEO IAALS and others have catalogued and documented the case for civil justice reform over the past ten years. The results of multiple nationwide surveys have found that cost …
Making the Case for Real and Lasting Reform Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Brittany Kauffman CEO Over the last century, many efforts have been made to change and improve our civil justice system: thought leaders have conferred, …
Janice Davidson Former Senior Advisor, Honoring Families Initiative Unbundled legal services, in which a client hires an attorney for agreed-upon discrete tasks, is a partial solution to the access to justice problem in our nation’s courts, and has become …
Janice Davidson Former Senior Advisor, Honoring Families Initiative The use of unbundled legal services is growing rapidly. An increasing number of jurisdictions explicitly allow unbundling and a growing number of attorneys are offering the service. Yet …
