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Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern Law Week Colorado  recently highlighted IAALS’ new report on the landscape of summary judgment motions practice,  Efficiency in Motion: Summary Judgment in the U.S. District Courts . The report is intended to serve as …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation In the spring of 2017, IAALS and members of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services asked ourselves:  “ What if we created a forum where an array of …

Jennifer D. Bailey Administrative Judge (Ret.), 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida, Circuit Civil Division Bailey Judicial Solutions IAALS’ recent report,  Redefining Case Management , is an important update on the work being done in civil justice …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession I recently joined a panel discussion of IAALS’  Foundations for Practice project  at the 2018 National Association for Law Placement (NALP) Annual Education Conference, where we …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS has long focused on increasing access to justice by helping courts develop policies and procedures to make civil litigation more efficient and less expensive. But it’s not just courts and judges that can …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director IAALS simply would not be what it is without the support of our partners and friends. They are essential to our efforts and hail from a wide range of backgrounds, viewpoints, and sectors.  Every month , IAALS will shine …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern Since 2015, the amicable app has been helping couples in the United Kingdom facilitate their divorces. App co-founder Kate Daly said helping families and their children is at the core of their business: “At amicable, …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications In IAALS’ first annual report, nearly 12 years ago, we described our “commitment to work toward a restoration of trust in our legal system for all Americans.” Today, that commitment remains as strong and as …

Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects Jennifer M. Lechner Executive Director, North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission The IAALS Court Compass project is exploring streamlined and simplified solutions that help people through the divorce …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Zachary Willis Director of Communications Public trust and confidence in our judiciary, and our judges, is vital. Yet, over the last several decades, that trust has been eroded. For people to trust …

Michael Houlberg Director of Special Projects The issue of how to provide litigants with equal access to legal services, regardless of the litigant’s financial status, has plagued the legal community for some time now. One solution that is gaining …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications We have never been busier at IAALS, with projects and convenings ramping up across all of our focus areas. To help facilitate this work and expand our impact nationwide, we are pleased to welcome three new staff …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern For litigants without the help of an attorney, the American civil justice system can be difficult to understand—let alone navigate. IAALS explored this issue in depth with our qualitative empirical research study  …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern Alternative dispute resolution processes, especially in the area of family law, are finally starting to become more common—yet still not common enough. IAALS piloted the  Center for Out-of-Court Divorce (COCD)  in …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS IAALS simply would not be what it is without the support of our partners and friends. They are essential to our efforts and hail from a wide range of backgrounds, viewpoints, and sectors.  Every …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Over the past two years, IAALS has been collaborating with NCSC on a  three-year project  to support the modernization and transformation of civil litigation in our state courts. One of the key aspects of this  Civil Justice …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern A recent study  revealed  that a high percentage of women still leave major financial and investment decisions to their spouse. This trend is becoming a problem for widowed and divorced women, 59 percent of whom wish …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern The National Self-Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP) recently published a  paper  that looks at costs awards to self-represented litigants (SRLs) in Canadian courts. The paper notes the leading Canadian cases in …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern Law school clinics are often said to serve two goals. They are a place where law students can develop and practice their legal skills in a real setting, with the safety net of faculty supervision. They also aim to …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern The ABA Center for Innovation  launched a new project  in April that will provide legal aid organizations with free technology that will hopefully make them more efficient and able to help more clients. The project, …