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Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS On the very day when the Colorado Supreme Court Justices convened for an annual holiday luncheon, which includes all former Justices, a new Justice was added to the Court. Former Chief Justices …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern How can jury trials be better? That was the question being discussed at the Jury Improvement Lunch recently held in Denver by the New York University School of Law's Civil Jury Project. The …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Nicole Bradick is a lawyer, Chief Strategy Officer at CuroLegal, and an advocate for expanding access to justice. As she writes in a recent post at Lawyerist , she was a federal court litigator for eight years and had …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern Despite having some of the longest judicial terms in the country, Maryland does not have a program in place to evaluate the performance of its state judges. Coupled with recent allegations of misconduct and …

Brittany Kauffman CEO On January 18-19, 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona, the National Center for State Courts and the Maricopa County Superior Court will host a Civil Justice Initiative Implementation Workshop on the Nuts and Bolts of Civil Justice Reform. This …

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 While a significant focus of civil justice reform has been on the cost and delay of discovery, IAALS has heard the call for reform in the area of motions practice as well, which can similarly result in great cost and delay to the …

Caitlin Anderson Former Legal Assistant Princeton Review released their 2018 law school rankings at the end of October—top 10 lists with categories like “ Best Classroom Experience ,” “ Most Competitive Students ,” and “ Best Career Prospects .” Many of …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern In a society where only 26 percent of adults can name all three branches of the federal government and a third cannot even name one, Colorado's judicial branch has sought to improve its citizens’ civics knowledge …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern It is common knowledge that many lawyers and law students struggle with high stress as well as high rates of depression and substance abuse. Now, the American Bar Association’s National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being …

Dona Playton Associate Professor and Director, Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic, University of Wyoming College of Law Former Director, Honoring Families Initiative For young legal practitioners, integrating limited scope representation into law …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The Civil Jury Project at NYU School of Law, whose Executive Director is Steve Susman, is organizing a Jury Improvement Lunch for the Colorado bench and bar this Thursday, November 2. The goal of the lunch is to honor jurors who have …

Carolyn A. Tyler Former Director of Communications Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern This week, the North Carolina Senate created the new Senate Select Committee on Judicial Reform and Redistricting to consider various options for how the state selects …

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 …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern In a recent article , Gillian Hadfield, Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Southern California, commented on how the United States legal education system has in some ways become stale. She suggests …

Nathaniel Baca Former Manager Over the last three years, California has undertaken an effort to “research and analyze innovative proposals for the justice system of the future.” The work has culminated in a final report that was submitted to the Chief …

Dona Playton Associate Professor and Director, Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic, University of Wyoming College of Law Former Director, Honoring Families Initiative Technology has radically altered how legal help is sought—and how it is delivered—yet …

Carolyn A. Tyler Former Director of Communications Zachary Willis Director of Communications What do clients want from their attorneys? The answers to that question would seem to be key to understanding how to improve the quality and diversity of legal …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Arizona’s Supreme Court has  approved  numerous civil justice reforms “aimed at reducing the time and expense it takes to resolve civil cases in Arizona’s superior courts.” The reforms are based on the recommendations of Arizona’s …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern Hello! My name is Heather Buchanan, and I am a second-year law student at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder. I am thrilled to be attending the  6th Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference in …