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Unbundled legal services, in which a client hires an attorney for agreed-upon discrete tasks, is a partial solution to the access to justice problem in our nation’s courts, and has become increasingly used and accepted in the last several decades.… MORE
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Over the last century, many efforts have been made to change and improve our civil justice system: thought leaders have conferred, rules have changed, processes have improved. Even still, the call for real, meaningful change persists.
Now, we… MORE
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IAALS and others have catalogued and documented the case for civil justice reform over the past ten years. The results of multiple nationwide surveys have found that cost is too high and it affects court access; delay increases cost; and discovery… MORE
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Daniel L. Ritchie is a founder of IAALS and a former member of IAALS' Board of Advisors.
Ritchie has served as President of the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation since 1993. The Foundation focuses on early childhood education and development.… MORE
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In 33 states and the District of Columbia, judicial nominating commissions play a part in selecting at least some judges. States have adopted commission-based appointment of judges, as called for in the O’Connor Judicial Selection Plan, to achieve… MORE
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IAALS has been working to improve and expand judicial performance evaluation programs since our founding in 2006. One of the major challenges these programs face is effectively communicating JPE results with voters. Recent public opinion research… MORE
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Many litigants navigating state family courts today are without attorney representation—in some courts, these numbers are increasing. Justice system stakeholders have made significant efforts in the last decade to develop self-helpinformation,… MORE
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Many litigants navigating state family courts today are without attorney representation—in some courts, these numbers are increasing. Justice system stakeholders have made significant efforts in the last decade to develop self-helpinformation,… MORE
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In November 2015, the Honoring Families Initiative hosted the Family Bar Summit: Shaping the System for the Families We Serve. The two-day event brought together diverse leaders of the family law bar to identify obstacles to serving children and… MORE
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This report chronicles and analyzes the two-year pilot project of IAALS' out-of-court model for separation and divorce at the Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families. It includes information on:
The service process;
The… MORE