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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 month …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern When law school applications took a downturn around 2011, some law schools redesigned their curricula to add more experiential learning opportunities. Aimed at ensuring that their students were prepared for practice …

Zachariah DeMeola Former Director of Legal Education and the Legal Profession This is the second in a series of posts that looks at lawyer career paths and what could help or hinder a legal professional’s development. Read Part 1 here. With nearly 30 …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Last night, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Director Alli Gerkman was honored at the 12th Annual Raising the Bar Dinner hosted by the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation. Each year, the CWBA Foundation honors …

Margaret Hagan Executive Director, Legal Design Lab, Stanford Law School At next month's Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference , we will spend Saturday morning in a Design Thinking workshop. It will be a hands-on way to learn what a design approach is, …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern The U.S. legal system is already hard to navigate and understand, but even more so in the aftermath of a natural disaster. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and in preparation for Hurricane Irma, the legal community is …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern In July, the nonprofit organization Progress Florida sent a  letter  to the Florida Constitution Revision Commission outlining proposed revisions to Article V, Section 11, of the state's constitution. The revisions add …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO Across the nation, states are reforming the civil justice system. They are taking action in response to the Conference of Chief Justices' (CCJ) and Conference of State Court Administrators' (COSCA) endorsement of 13 …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO A  recent study  conducted for Voices for Civil Justice, with support from the Public Welfare Foundation, found that voters strongly favor reform of the civil justice system. Overwhelming majorities of voters believe it is …

Keith Lee Attorney, Hamer Law Group A while back, Alli Gerkman wrote about the importance of life experience for new lawyers . She noted that “lawyers responding to our Foundations for Practice survey indicated that ‘life experience between college and …

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 …

Douglas Keith Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice Laila Robbins Research & Program Associate, Brennan Center for Justice This month, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and the American Bar Association Judicial Division released Building a …

Caitlin Anderson Former Legal Assistant The 6th Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference is right around the corner! In addition to our fantastic lineup of program speakers , we are excited to have fifteen Ignite presentations from a broad swath of …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO At its annual meeting this week in New York City, the ABA House of Delegates  adopted Resolution 116  urging courts to implement plans that provide meaningful courtroom experience to new lawyers. The resolution—recognizing the …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern In a recent article for Metropolitan Corporate Counsel , IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis and Rule One Initiative Director Brittany Kauffman discuss how state court and bar leaders across the country are …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern In a time when nearly everyone has an online presence, more and more jurisdictions are having to navigate the extent to which trial lawyers can use a juror's social media to inform jury selection. In 2014, the American …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Last month, in " We Won’t See You in Court: The Era of Tort Lawsuits Is Waning ," the Wall Street Journal took a look at the decline in tort lawsuit filings and the reasons fueling the decline, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In the name of simplicity, the ABA Council for the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar approved a proposal to roll back transparency in employment outcomes for law school graduates in a process that, …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern The California State Bar recently released the results of a study on the state bar exam’s current cut score, or pass line. The study, which was accelerated in order to possibly apply a new score to the July 2017 exam, …

Heather Buchanan Former IAALS Intern As noted by the  Miami Herald , the average lifespan of an immigration case in the United States is about three years. Several factors have led to the nation-wide backlog, but many say the most prominent reason is the …