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Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession This week is the tenth annual National Celebration of Pro Bono. Legal professionals across the country are taking the time to recognize the importance of volunteer work, as well …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager Next week is the tenth National Celebration of Pro Bono , which highlights the importance of pro bono work in today’s legal landscape. The ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession The movement to significantly reform the regulation of legal services and open the market for better delivery of legal services has just expanded to another western …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession The comment below was submitted by IAALS to the California State Bar Task Force on Access Through Innovation for Legal Services (ATILS) as part of its request for public comment …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager Although divorce cases have traditionally been resolved via adversarial processes, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is becoming increasingly more prevalent in New York state civil courts, …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager The National Center for State Courts’ (NCSC) 2019 Trends in State Courts explores how to make state court processes both more comprehensible and relevant to the public. The articles relate the …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession “Are we in an era of regulatory reform?” Art Lachman, legal ethics attorney and former President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL), posed this …

Maddie Hosack Former Communications and Marketing Manager This past Saturday, September 14, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System held its Pass the Gavel Dinner, honoring Rebecca Love Kourlis as she stepped down as executive …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Over the past year, at the behest of our Board of Advisors, IAALS has examined the public’s trust and confidence in the American legal system. Many observers had already established that the public’s …

Kelsey Montague Director of Marketing and Public Relations Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS and HiiL begin research to provide in-depth understanding of the problems everyday Americans face resolving legal issues and accessing justice, on a …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS With heavy hearts we share the news of IAALS Senior Director  Alli Gerkman ’s passing after a long battle with cancer. There are no words that can adequately convey who Alli was—and who she was to …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation While technology is increasingly finding its way into courthouses around the country, substantial opportunities remain for courts to implement simple technology solutions that stand to greatly improve …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In 2015, the Conference of Chief Justices  and the  Conference of State Court Administrators passed Resolution 5 , which supports the goal of 100 percent access to effective assistance for essential civil legal needs. The …

Marsha Kline Pruett Maconda Brown O'Connor Professor, Smith College School for Social Work Past President, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Deborah Roth-Howe Family Consultant, Family Resolutions Specialty Court, Hampshire Family and Probate …

Andrew Schepard Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professor of Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Hofstra University Innovations in the delivery of legal services can also be laboratories for testing innovations in legal education. When it comes to …

Jordan M. Singer Consultant, IAALS Professor of Law, New England Law | Boston Nevada, which directly elects nearly all of its state judges, has never implemented an official judicial performance evaluation (JPE) program. Instead, between 1992 and 2013, …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In June, the National Center for States Courts (NCSC) released the second in a series of evaluations of civil justice reform demonstration pilot projects around the country:  Civil Justice Initiative: Evaluation of the Civil …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Kelsey Montague Director of Marketing and Public Relations As thousands sit for the bar exam this week, IAALS is spearheading an empirical effort to define the minimum competence they need to practice law Most law …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation As state courts work to serve the substantial numbers of litigants who navigate the civil and family court process without an attorney, they are taking a variety of approaches. Some have fillable …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS IAALS simply would not be what it is without the support of our staff, partners, and friends. They are essential to our efforts and hail from a wide range of backgrounds, viewpoints, and sectors.  …