IAALS and HiiL will collect data from 10,000 people in the United States to gain an in-depth understanding of the scope of legal issues people encounter and their experiences in resolving them, on a national scale.
IAALS, the Institute for the… MORE
On August 20, IAALS and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law co-hosted a virtual panel discussion on how regulatory reform can help address issues of racial injustice, featuring legal industry leaders and access to justice advocates Rohan… MORE
Public trust and confidence in our government institutions is critical to the functioning of our democratic republic. While members of the public are directly involved in electing the executive and legislative branches, the judicial branch is… MORE
Just over seven years ago, IAALS launched Law Jobs: By the Numbers, an effort to provide a new perspective on law school rankings. The tool, which pulls employment outcomes data directly from what every law school reports to the American Bar… MORE
This year has been one of those that will, for the rest of our lives, divide time into before and after. A global pandemic has altered so much that we assumed was static and unmoving. Unrest brought on by more and more senseless killings of Black… MORE
State judicial misconduct . . . How much? What kinds? What do discipline bodies do about it?
For starters, consult IAALS’ analysis and recommendations for those bodies and its sources. Follow Cynthia Gray’s long-standing and essential Judicial… MORE
The Iowa farmer had some questions. Letter in hand, he called our number and got right down to business: “Is this legitimate? Is this for real?” It was a question I had heard numerous times before, but the tone varied between the callers—often… MORE
On September 17, IAALS Founding Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch published an op-ed in USA Today commending recent legal regulatory reforms in Utah and Arizona, and calling for more states across… MORE
September 17 marks Constitution Day, a day to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution—undoubtedly the most influential document in American history—in 1787. In order to celebrate, IAALS is looking back on a series of perspectives we… MORE
On August 27, the Arizona Supreme Court voted unanimously to eliminate its ethics rules barring nonlawyers from having an economic interest in law firms or participating in fee-sharing and streamlined rules governing how lawyers can advertise and… MORE