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The judicial selection commission sponsored by Senators Inouye and Akaka submitted to the senators a list of three candidates for an upcoming vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. The vacancy is due to Judge David Ezra… MORE
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Governor Abercrombie appointed Circuit Court Judge Richard Pollack to the supreme court. Pollack was one of five nominees submitted by the judicial selection commission. This was Governor Abercrombie’s second appointment to the supreme court of his… MORE
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An unpopular decision became an issue in a supreme court race. The high court weakened the Open Beaches Act in a 5-3 decision in April, and the challenger to incumbent Justice Nathan Hecht criticized him for siding with the majority. The only other… MORE
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The house judiciary committee tabled by a 13-12 vote a measure calling for merit selection of the state’s appellate judges, and it is unlikely that it will come up again before the legislature’s summer recess. Supporters credit trial lawyers and… MORE
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The proposed 2012 platform of the Iowa Republican Party calls for state legislators to impeach judges who recognize a right to same-sex marriage and supports eliminating the role of the state judicial nominating commission in selecting judges and… MORE
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After the governor failed to make a judicial appointment within the 30 day limit, the judicial selection commission made the appointment from its list of well-qualified nominees. The governor had selected the same nominee, but he was two days late… MORE
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The ABA Journal discusses the impact of Big Law's preference for graduates from Ivy League and other “elite” law schools. The article notes that such “near obsession with pedigree . . . is damaging to the entire profession” because new… MORE
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Professor Michael Madison’s (view his course portfolio here) “goal is to inspire students to learn, and to have the confidence to learn, long after they have left [his] classroom.” He adopts a “writing to learn” pedagogy in his copyright course as… MORE
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When Michael Madison left Silicon Valley to begin teaching law, he thought a lot about how to teach judgment:
“This was a question that was at the forefront of my mind because it was so much a forefront of my practice.”
Today, he offers an upper… MORE
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Mark Nadeau is a member of the Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Advisory Committee and the co-managing partner of the Phoenix office of DLA Piper, one of the largest law firms in the world.
He recently took some time to talk with us about new lawyers,… MORE