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IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, today announced that its CEO, David Yellen, has accepted the role of dean of the law school at the University of Miami.
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Since opening its doors, IAALS has been at the forefront of efforts to improve and expand programs for evaluating the performance of state and federal court judges. JPE 2.0 represents the next stage in IAALS’ work: to reexamine approaches to… MORE
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Susanne DiPietro has served since 2014 as the Executive Director of the Alaska Judicial Council, the constitutionally established commission responsible for judicial performance evaluation in Alaska. Before coming to the Judicial Council, she worked… MORE
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Kent J. Wagner is the Executive Director of the Office of Judicial Performance Evaluation in Denver, Colorado. In that role, Kent manages the Colorado Judicial Performance program established by the Colorado Legislature in 1988. The program provides… MORE
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Sherman & Howard L.L.C. is a super-regional firm with a national practice. Its approximately 180 lawyers serve a broad range of clients, including individuals, privately held businesses, multi-national corporations, and government entities… MORE
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Michael Oki has been assigned since 1991 as staff to the Hawai‘i Supreme Court Rule 19 Committee on Judicial Performance. The Judicial Performance Program conducts evaluations of full time and per diem judges through attorney and juror surveys. Oki’… MORE
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Since 2016, Jennifer MJ Yim has served as the executive director of the Utah Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission (JPEC), an independent state government commission that evaluates the performance of Utah judges for voters.
Yim has over 20… MORE
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Farrah Fite is a former member of IAALS' JPE 2.0 Task Force. She communicates and promotes—using traditional and new media—the wide range of services and resources The Missouri Bar provides to help lawyers even better serve their clients. Since 2012… MORE
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Since its founding 100 years ago, Southwestern has been at the vanguard of legal education reform. It was one of the original proponents in Southern California of the Harvard case method of instruction, and was among the first schools to recruit… MORE