Chris Martin is an associate at Holland & Hart LLP. He is a part of the real estate, construction, finance and bankruptcy practice group and focuses on land use and zoning, renewable energy, and leasing.
Chris is a 2021 graduate of the… MORE
Karen is the Director of Legal Talent for the Colorado Attorney General's Office. She has 15 years of experience as a talent expert and is adept at strategic hiring and recruiting; coaching and teaching professional development and skills topics for… MORE
Professor Thiadora Pina is an accomplished civil litigation attorney and brings her strong communication, customer service, and project management skills to Santa Clara Law as a clinical professor and externship director. These skills… MORE
At Miami Law, Jessi Tamayo is a Lecturer in Law teaching courses in Professional Responsibility, the Director of the STREET Law Program, and assists in the planning of scholarly colloquia, symposia, and conferences.
Prior to… MORE
What qualities do Americans want in their state judges? Professor Herbert Kritzer, the Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, addresses the question in the Spring 2021 issue of Judicature. In a… MORE
In May, the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) at Fordham Law School published the latest iteration of the Justice Index, a national survey of state civil justice policies that provides “a snapshot of the degree to which each U.S.… MORE
< Back to Judicial Performance EvaluationJudicial performance evaluation exists in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as an official program. Not all states with judicial performance evaluation adopt all four… MORE
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IAALS administers a Working Group of JPE program administrators and scholars around the country. The Working Group facilitates sharing of ideas and information, as well as identification of problem… MORE
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IAALS has taken a closer look at how best to evaluate appellate judges for two essential reasons.
First, appellate JPE programs have largely been patterned after programs for trial judges, though these… MORE
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The judicial nominating commission is the key to commission-based appointment, or “merit selection,” of state court judges. Whenever a vacancy occurs on the bench, judicial nominating commissions… MORE