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President Obama appears to be making diversity a priority in his judicial appointments. Of the 35 federal judicial nominees awaiting a Senate confirmation vote, 17 are women, 15 are ethnic minorities, and five are openly gay. Of the judges who were… MORE
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In its Winter 2013 edition, The Arkansas Lawyer makes the case for a more efficient option for trial by jury in civil cases, and does so by introducing and reprinting an excerpt from A Return to Trials: Implementing Effective Short, Summary, and… MORE
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This post was originally published on The Huffington Post on March 5, 2013.
In the recent blog post "In Our Courts 'Justice' Is Bought," Lance Soskin argued that "litigation is a multi-billion dollar industry that favors the wealthy" and… MORE
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The national dialogue about changing legal education has proposed many ideas aimed at making the system better, one of which being the outright elimination of the third year of law school. In the wake of this consideration, Luke Bierman, the… MORE
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ABC 7 Denver News reports that the task force established to determine how to regulate marijuana in Colorado after the passage of Amendment 64 has no plans to create any laws dictating marijuana consumption in child custody cases.… MORE
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Michigan Law has created an online calculator called the "Debt Wizard" that helps current and prospective law students better understand their student loan obligations and how their perspective career paths may impact them financially… MORE
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Responding to a 6-3 supreme court decision that invalidated a legislative initiative requiring a two-thirds vote for tax increases, three Republican senators proposed a bill that would eliminate four justices from the nine-member court, citing the… MORE
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Arizona’s house of representatives passed a bill that would increase from three to five the minimum number of candidates a nominating commission sends to the governor for each judicial vacancy. The constitution calls for the commission to submit at… MORE
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Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Advisory Committee member Paul Lippe recently spoke to the “Deans Workshop for ABA Approved Schools,” and, while that meeting was off the record, he proposes new ideas and frameworks for changing the current… MORE
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The United States District Court for the District of Colorado announced proposed amendments to its Local Rules on March 7, 2013. The proposed amendments are few, but include an amendment to D.C.COLO.LCivR 1.1 to include a section on "Pilot Programs… MORE