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A Democratic legislator circulated a resolution calling for the removal of supreme court justice Michael Gableman, for presiding over cases involving a law firm that provided him with free legal services. The constitution allows the legislature to… MORE
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A house subcommittee approved a bill that would allow the governor to replace the five members of the judicial nominating commission who are appointed by the governor without bar association input. (Currently, commission members serve four-year… MORE
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A circuit court judge announced her intention to challenge a court of appeals judge in the Republican primary for the open supreme court seat created by Justice Tom Woodall’s retirement. In announcing her candidacy, she pledged not to accept… MORE
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The approved Pilot Project Regarding Case Management Techniques for Complex Civil Cases took effect in the Southern District of New York on November 1, 2011, and will be in place for an eighteen-month trial period. This article provides background… MORE
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The supreme court amended the code of judicial conduct to bar elected judges from hearing cases when a litigant, lawyer, or law firm involved in the case “has made contributions or given such support to the judge’s campaign that the judge’s… MORE
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In a follow-up to the annual AALS meeting, LawWeek Colorado interviewed Rebecca Love Kourlis about the team Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers sent to the conference and its takeaways.
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In another follow-up to this month's Association of American Law Schools meeting, this article questions whether the current efforts of law schools and professors to change legal education go far enough.
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The current standards for education of new lawyers are problematic, but we cannot fix legal education without addressing the challenges that face the legal system as a whole.
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The State Bar of California has created a task force that will consider whether the state should require recent graduates to have practical experience before receiving a law license, and how the practical experience might be obtained.
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The New York State Board of Law Examiners announced the amendment of the New York Court of Appeals' educational requirements for U.S.-educated graduates of ABA-accredited law schools to sit for the New York State bar examination, including an… MORE