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In a new white paper published on March 22, 11 legal scholars—including Deborah Jones Merritt, our partner for the Building a Better Bar project—stress the need for jurisdictions to consider alternative licensing options for the Class of 2020 and… MORE
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We join countless others in wishing retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor all the best today on her 90th birthday. Her life’s journey has been remarkable—spending her childhood on a remote cattle ranch in southeastern Arizona, entering Stanford… MORE
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On March 29, 2019—almost exactly a year ago—the Maurice A. Deane School of Law's Center for Children, Families and the Law hosted “Plain and Simple: Making the Legal System Accessible to All,” co-sponsored by IAALS, the Self-Represented Litigation… MORE
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Administering justice in the time of COVID-19 has taken on a whole new direction in a rural municipal court in Laramie, Wyoming. On March 13, 2020, after Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon declared a state of emergency, court personnel met to discuss… MORE
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The United States of America leads the world in many areas of democracy, technology, economy, and culture. Since 1871, the American economy has been the largest in the world. Currently it accounts for 23.6% of the global economy (IMF). The biggest… MORE
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Courts across the country continue to exhibit incredible flexibility in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders have been enacted in many parts of the country, judges and lawyers alike are looking for… MORE
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New Mexico is one of the latest states to look to regulatory innovation to increase access to legal services.
Many of the civil justice needs throughout the state are currently going unmet, due in part to the fact that New Mexico is so large and… MORE
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This past Tuesday, April 7, the American Bar Association Board of Governors approved a policy resolution that urges state licensing authorities to immediately adopt emergency rules that would authorize recent law school graduates to practice law… MORE
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The news is full of examples of our world moving to remote conferencing, from online schooling to court hearings. The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, originally set to meet in person in Florida on April 1, 2020, is no exception. The Committee met… MORE
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In 2018, the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) created its Testing Task Force to conduct a three-year project that, in part, examines whether the bar exam is a valid measure of minimum competence to practice law. Phase 1 involved a series… MORE