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Kelsey Montague Director of Marketing and Public Relations The recommendations can provide critical support to courts facing unprecedented need for change during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal …

Dona Playton Associate Professor and Director, Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic, University of Wyoming College of Law Former Director, Honoring Families Initiative For many practitioners and law students, the current crisis and subsequent need for …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager Courts, judges, and lawyers have demonstrated a remarkable ability to adapt to a remote and technology-driven version of our justice system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Advancements in technology within the legal …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects On April 10, the State Justice Institute (SJI) launched its Funding Toolkit for State Courts and Justice System Partners, hosting a webinar to introduce …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure In 2018, the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) created its Testing Task Force to conduct a three-year project that, in part, examines whether the bar exam is a valid measure of …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The news is full of examples of our world moving to remote conferencing, from online schooling to court hearings. The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, originally set to meet in person in Florida on April 1, 2020, is no exception. …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure This past Tuesday, April 7, the American Bar Association Board of Governors approved a policy resolution that urges state licensing authorities to immediately adopt emergency rules that would …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager New Mexico is one of the latest states to look to regulatory innovation to increase access to legal services. Many of the civil justice needs throughout the state are currently going unmet, due in …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager Courts across the country continue to exhibit incredible flexibility in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders have been enacted in many parts of the country, judges and lawyers …

Martin Gramatikov Director, Measuring Justice, HiiL Rodrigo Nunez Justice Sector Advisor, HiiL The United States of America leads the world in many areas of democracy, technology, economy, and culture. Since 1871, the American economy has been the largest …

Dona Playton Associate Professor and Director, Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic, University of Wyoming College of Law Former Director, Honoring Families Initiative Administering justice in the time of COVID-19 has taken on a whole new direction in a …

Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects On March 29, 2019—almost exactly a year ago—the Maurice A. Deane School of Law's Center for Children, Families and the Law hosted “Plain and Simple: Making the Legal System Accessible to All,” co-sponsored by …

Scott Bales Former Executive Director We join countless others in wishing retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor all the best today on her 90th birthday. Her life’s journey has been remarkable—spending her childhood on a remote cattle ranch in southeastern …

William D. Henderson Stephen F. Burns Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law Editor's Note: Although Professor Bill Henderson's talk on the future of legal services has been postponed, we're thrilled to share his recent post on Legal …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure In a new white paper published on March 22, 11 legal scholars—including Deborah Jones Merritt, our partner for the Building a Better Bar project—stress the need for jurisdictions to consider …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager In a recent op-ed for Deseret News , Joanne Slotnik, who served as executive director of the Utah Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission for eight years, touts the state’s successful judicial …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager On March 13, 2020, the American Bar Association created the  Task Force on Legal Needs Arising Out of the 2020 Pandemic, chaired by James J. Sandman, the former president of the Legal Services Corporation. The task force will …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation On February 13, the Arizona Task Force on the Delivery of Legal Services filed a petition with the Arizona Supreme Court …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In January 2019, IAALS published Efficiency in Motion: Recommendations for Improving Dispositive Motions Practice in State and Federal Courts , calling for a new paradigm for motion practice in the United States. The …

Andrew Arruda CEO, Automate Medical Former Entrepreneur-in-Residence, IAALS If you are reading this, you have likely heard the news that on Thursday, March 12, 2020, the State Bar of California Trustees voted to postpone passing the motion to explore the …