Cynthia Dow

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Cynthia Dow focuses on recruiting general counsel and other high-level legal and compliance officers. Based in New York, she is a member of the firm's Legal, Government and Regulatory Affairs Practice. Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates,… MORE

National Conference on Evaluating Appellate Judges

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IAALS has worked in the area of judicial performance evaluation (JPE) from its inception in January 2006. In August 2008, IAALS convened its first conference on JPE—Judicial Performance Evaluation: Strategies for Success—which focused on the… MORE

Options for Federal Judicial Screening Committees

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Second Edition Committees that U.S. senators use to vet would-be federal district judges whom they might recommend to the White House are a little known but substantial part of the landscape of federal judicial selection. The number of committees… MORE

Excess and Access: Consensus on the American Civil Justice Landscape

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This publication synthesizes the results of four recent studies exploring how attorneys and trial judges across the nation view the civil justice system. Survey respondents overwhelmingly agreed that cost is a concern; delay increases cost; and… MORE

Civil Justice at a Crossroads

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Four years ago, concerns about skyrocketing costs, unprofessional gamesmanship, and long delays in civil litigation were the stuff of grousing and shoulder shrugs. We all had a level of fatalism or cynicism about our inability to change any of those… MORE

Trial Bench Views: Findings from a National Survey on Civil Procedure

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This survey asked state and federal judges questions about the civil legal system, and in particular, some of the civil process reforms advanced by IAALS and the ACTL Task Force. This report was published in Pace Law Review (PLR): Corina Gerety,… MORE

Surveys of the Colorado Bench & Bar

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Colorado’s voluntary simplified pretrial procedure for actions seeking $100,000 or less from any one party was set up to reduce the time to disposition and reduce costs for litigants. But our survey shows use of the rules is relatively infrequent… MORE

A Roadmap for Reform: Measuring Innovation

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The final installment of a three-part series that gives courts willing to try pilot projects a means for empirical evaluation of civil rules reforms and how they should be measured.

Civil Justice Reforms

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Those who are involved in the civil jury process know first-hand of the genius and value of trial by jury. Juries represent the collective wisdom and objectivity of a group of citizens who are called together to apply their common sense and agree on… MORE

Civil Litigation Survey of Chief Legal Officers and General Counsel

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This report sets forth the results of our civil litigation survey of Chief Legal Officers and General Counsel belonging to the Association of Corporate Counsel. (Updated May 2013).