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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 K.T. 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 …

Making the Case for Real and Lasting Reform Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO Over the last century, many efforts have been made to change and improve our civil justice system: thought leaders have …

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 …

Stacey Platt Clinical Professor of Law & Associate Director, Civitas ChildLaw Clinic, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Peter Salem Executive Director, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Today’s family law system requires its participants …

Family separation can be very stressful. Everyone in the family goes through changes, including parents, children, and other family members. You may also have more expenses, such as a second home, while living on the same income. Dividing property, moving …

Updated July 2017 Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative It is no surprise that there is much confusion around how judges get to be judges in the United States. No two states use the same method to select and retain their judges, and even …

IAALS and ACTL Since 2007, IAALS and the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice have partnered to study cost and delay in America’s civil justice system, and propose solutions. One of the major themes that emerged was …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Elena Harman Founder and Principal, Vantage Evaluation In recent years, law schools have been the subject of great scrutiny—by media, by the profession, by law students, and even by legal educators within the …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Family court judges make significant decisions affecting our nation's families, yet these judges are often undervalued—even by their peers on the bench. And, there is insufficient acknowledgement of …

Corina D. Gerety Former Director of Research, IAALS Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure This report details IAALS' final findings on the  Colorado Civil Access Pilot Project (CAPP) , the state's experiment with new court …