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Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager On December 5, Australia’s Attorney-General reintroduced draft laws to merge the specialist Family Court of Australia with the lower-level Federal Circuit Court, with the aim to improve efficiency …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager At the end of September, Chief Justice John D. Minton of the Kentucky Supreme Court disqualified Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd from presiding over a politically charged lawsuit …

Scott Bales Former Executive Director In my first three months as Executive Director of IAALS, I have been able to visit with many of our partners and supporters in Colorado and across the nation. I’ve enjoyed these meetings and the uniformly encouraging …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure Family courts around the country are responding to an urgent need to improve the delivery of justice for everyone who walks through their doors. However, as courts and others develop these …

Brittany Kauffman CEO In partnership with HiiL, the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law, IAALS is conducting a nationwide survey of the legal needs of individuals in the United States over the course of the next year as part of its US Justice Needs …

Michelle Morley Circuit Court Judge, Fifth Circuit, Sumter County, Florida Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects Imagine the following scenario: instead of relaxing on Thanksgiving, your grandfather is being taken to a mental hospital because he …

Brittany Kauffman CEO IAALS is excited to announce the creation of a new Advisory Committee in support of its US Justice Needs project. In collaboration with HiiL, IAALS is conducting research to assess the justice needs of people and businesses in the …

Jayne Reardon Executive Director, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism A lot has been written about how changing legal regulation may reduce the access to justice gap by allowing more innovative and effective delivery of legal services to …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager In late September, the Indiana Supreme Court announced the creation of the 13-member Indiana Innovation Initiative . The initiative was established “to analyze research on justice reform, assess …

Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects Many aspects of human life have moved online—shopping for groceries, applying for jobs, taking classes, etc. So it’s no surprise that some legal processes, such as dispute resolution, are also moving to a …

Scott Bales Former Executive Director Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation We at IAALS are among the many saddened by the untimely passing last week of Mark Cady, Iowa’s Chief Justice. He had served as a judge for some 33 years—on Iowa’s …

Andrew Arruda CEO, Automate Medical Former Entrepreneur-in-Residence, IAALS It’s no secret that the United States is facing an access to justice crisis. Our justice system is failing. We are failing to uphold what the country’s founding fathers upheld as …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado greenlighted limited scope (i.e., “discrete task”) representation by attorneys through enactment of Local Rules D.C.COLO.LAttyR 2(b)(1) and LAttyR 5(a)-(b), allowing …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects Our state courts are the frontlines of justice in the United States. With state trial courts handling 83 million cases in 2017 (95 percent of all U.S. …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager Last month, the University of Pennsylvania Law School announced the launch of their Future of the Profession Initiative . The initiative aims to “Teach, Lead, and Transform” by looking at ways law …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In August 2017,  Chief Justice Thomas A. Balmer  of the Oregon Supreme Court established a Civil Justice Improvements Task Force based on the Conference of Chief Justices  Civil Justice Improvements Committee’s Call to Action: …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession The American legal profession is at a crossroads. Time and again, studies show that too many people are being left out of the civil justice system. Up and down the income scale, …

Kelsey Montague Director of Marketing and Public Relations More and more legal professionals want to know what clients want from their attorneys. What is it that clients value in, and want from, their lawyers? How does a lawyer meet the requirements of …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession One of the frequently cited issues in any discussion about reforming current regulations governing the delivery of legal services is the topic of limited legal license programs. …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager In August, the United States Courts published a new video in their “Court Shorts” series in which nine federal judges discuss the rule of law and the role it plays not only in our justice system, …