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Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO The National Center for State Courts’ 2016  Trends in State Courts  includes an article focused on the impact that high-volume cases, such as consumer debt collection, landlord/tenant, and small claims, have on the overall civil …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation The National Self-Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP) recently released  Canadian data on case outcomes for self-represented litigants (SRLs) . These new figures come shortly after NSRLP published …

Steve Leben Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals IAALS is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Throughout the year, we will be featuring guest posts from our colleagues and partners to recap our accomplishments and national impact — and look to the future …

Mark Staines IAALS Intern As law schools across the country strive to produce lawyers who can hit the ground running—and as we gear up to launch our Foundations for Practice findings—Alli Gerkman, Director of Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers , has been …

Mark Staines IAALS Intern Updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and a rising crop of tech savvy attorneys have Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola (Ret.) of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia optimistic about the future of …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation The June edition of  5280 Magazine  highlights the  reality of self-representation in Colorado’s civil courts . Referencing the first-hand experience of a litigant who navigated her way through the …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative National organizations that work to ensure fair, trusted, and accountable courts are increasingly recognizing the potential for implicit bias to obstruct this goal, particularly when such bias is …

Logan Cornett Director of Research Legal Education & Licensure We are pleased to announce the results of our evaluation of the Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families (RCSDF)—the first manifestation of the IAALS Honoring Families Initiative …

Ann B. Frick Judge, Second Judicial District Court of Colorado Vice Chair, ACTL Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice IAALS is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Throughout the year, we will be featuring guest posts from our colleagues and …

Mark Staines IAALS Intern For separating and divorcing families, access to justice can be hard to come by. Our traditional, court-driven model de-emphasizes parents’ (and children’s) long-term interests, fosters expensive legal fees, and lacks important …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO IAALS’  Honoring Families Initiative  recently released two new reports focused on the experiences of self-represented litigants in our family court system. The first,  Cases Without Counsel: Research on Experiences of …

Mark Staines IAALS Intern A recent study by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is shedding new light on the demographics of state judiciaries across the country. The Gavel Gap  project collected data based on the race, ethnicity, …

Christine Todd Whitman Former Governor of New Jersey, 1994–2001 One of the reasons that the American experiment succeeded was the genius of our Founding Fathers in establishing a three-part system of government with an independent judiciary. The concept …

Carolyn A. Tyler Former Director of Communications Zachary Willis Director of Communications New IAALS Report Highlights Themes and Recommendations to Reshape the Divorce and Separation Process Today, IAALS released a new report that finds family law …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Fern Fisher of the New York City Courts recently addressed the Colorado Supreme Court Advisory Committee and its Limited License Legal Technician (LLLTs) …

Deanell Reece Tacha Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean and Professor of Law, Pepperdine School of Law IAALS is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Throughout the year, we will be featuring guest posts from our colleagues and partners to recap our …

Caitlin Anderson Former Legal Assistant The Journal of Experiential Learning at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center (an ETL Consortium school) is looking for papers for the Fall/Winter 2016 volume. The topic is “Loosening the Walls of the Legal …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Lawyers reach out to me from time to time to give me a dose of reality. Recently, a trial lawyer spoke to me of a few cases that had gone awry—and are examples of larger issues that plague our civil …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative This November, five of the seven justices on the Kansas Supreme Court are standing for retention, and many court watchers in Kansas and around the country are anticipating a no-holds-barred election …

Carolyn A. Tyler Former Director of Communications Zachary Willis Director of Communications "Cases Without Counsel: Experiences of Self-Representation in U.S. Family Court" Presents Panoramic View The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal …