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Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS is pleased to announce that Kelsey Montague has joined the organization as its new Associate Director of Marketing and Public Relations. Kelsey comes to IAALS from the Anchor Center for Blind Children, where …

Russell Wheeler President, Governance Institute Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution Former Deputy Director, Federal Judicial Center Senior Fellow, IAALS In 2016, California legislators,  pressed by court users and judges , authorized the State …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Brooke Meyer Former Manager The National Center for States Courts (NCSC) has released the first in a series of evaluations of civil justice reform demonstration pilot projects around the country:  Civil Justice Initiative, Evaluation …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager On April 29, Maine continued its efforts toward civil justice reform by conducting an all-day Civil Justice Reform Training Conference for all Maine Supreme Court Justices, Superior Court Justices, District Judges, Magistrates, …

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.  …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern Technological advances in the legal field are growing around the world, but different countries are seeing that growth manifest at different speeds and in different ways. In the United States, we’ve seen a boom in …

John Montgomery Former Communications Coordinator Divorce is an inherently complicated and lengthy process in most states, and families bear the burden of high financial and emotional costs, especially when children are involved. Easing this emotional …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure It is no secret that divorce poses significant problems for those who go through the legal process. Even for people who approach it with the intention of remaining amicable, the adversarial …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern Kim Kardashian West wears many hats: reality television star, media personality, businesswoman, wife, and mother. But the second eldest Kardashian told  Vogue  she has plans to add “lawyer” to her list of titles, …

Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects Online dispute resolution (ODR) is emerging in courts around the country. Last month, Arizona’s Administrative Office of the Courts announced the launch of an ODR pilot program in the family courts of Pinal …

Linda Simard Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School As a law professor, I have the pleasure of watching law students evolve from 1Ls who are shocked—and somewhat dismayed—at the remarkable intricacies of civil procedure, to 2Ls and 3Ls who slowly …

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.  …

John Montgomery Former Communications Coordinator This week, IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis and Senior Director Brittany Kauffman have been attending the World Justice Forum at The Hague, which concludes today. They participated on panels …

Brittany Kauffman CEO On May 17, 2019, the Colorado Women’s Bar Association will honor IAALS Senior Director Alli Gerkman with the Mary Lathrop Trailblazer Award at their “All Rise” 42nd Annual Convention. The award is presented annually to “an …

Brooke Meyer Former Manager In December 2018, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) issued its Final Report for the Arizona Superior Court’s three-year Commercial Court Pilot Program, Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County Commercial Court …

John Montgomery Former Communications Coordinator IAALS’ Court Compass project has received an honorable mention as part of the World Justice Project’s World Justice Challenge 2019 . The challenge, Access to Justice Solutions, “is a competition to …

John Montgomery Former Communications Coordinator In recent years, the legal profession has had to adapt to the needs of both litigants and law firms in a rapidly changing and more technologically adept society. As the needs of lawyers and those seeking …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications John Montgomery Former Communications Coordinator On Thursday, April 25, IAALS will present the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and our four Foundations for Practice partner schools with the 2019 Rebuilding …

Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects Each month, the Colorado Lawyer publishes a “Judges Corner” article written by judges on a topic in which they are experts. I had the honor of working with Judge Daniel Taubman with the Colorado Court of …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Brittany Kauffman CEO As state courts around the country have been responding to the Conference of Chief Justices' (CCJ) 2016 Call to Action for civil justice reform, IAALS, the National Center for …