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We have now hit the necessary escape velocity to punch through the gravitational pull of 2020. 2021 awaits, full of promise, mystique, and excitement. I, like most of my peers, have taken to finishing most of my Zoom calls these days with the words… MORE
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On December 31, 2020, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary. In it, he lauds the flexibility and innovation shown by courts across the country as their operations were upended by the… MORE
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IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, announced today that it has named Professor David Yellen as its new chief executive officer. Yellen will take over leadership from IAALS’ interim… MORE
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Wendy Paris is the author of Splitopia: Dispatches from Today’s Good Divorce and How to Part Well (Atria books/Simon & Schuster, Spring 2016).
Before writing Splitopia, she worked as a print and electronic journalist for more than 20 years,… MORE
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The pandemic has affected our civil justice system in many ways. It forced the system to go online to protect judges, court staff, lawyers, litigants, witnesses, jurors, and the public from the coronavirus contagion. It forced access to justice (A2J… MORE
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National experts create landmark protocols to help courts more quickly resolve the wave of business interruption insurance cases stemming from COVID-19-related closures and losses
IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal… MORE
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Throughout the past ten months, our justice system has made giant strides in its use of technology. Video- and tele-conferencing, e-filing, and remote jury trials have been implemented in courts across the country, in many instances for the first… MORE
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In 2019, the 86th Texas Legislature passed House Bill 3040, creating the Texas Commission on Judicial Selection to study the “fairness, effectiveness, and desirability” of partisan elections for judicial selection in Texas and the merits of other… MORE
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At this point, it’s fairly trite to begin writing with a comment about the impact COVID-19 has on our lives and our legal system. But it’s an inescapable truth that the pandemic has forced us to rethink so much about how we do things and why—and one… MORE
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Last month, IAALS kicked off our Pandemic Positives Speaker Series, bringing together a number of courts and legal service providers who, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, transformed their day-to-day operations to continue serving the… MORE