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Mary Bowman Director of the Legal Writing Program, Seattle University School of Law This post is one of a series that stems from our 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference. The author(s) presented a six-minute Ignite-style presentation at the …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation In 2013, the Colorado Judicial Branch created the Self-Represented Litigant Coordinator (Sherlock) program. The Sherlocks , operating in courthouses in each of Colorado’s judicial districts, assist …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Throughout this month, we've been releasing the fantastic Ignite-style presentations given at our 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference by ETL Fellows and faculty from across the ETL Consortium. …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Just a week ago, the long awaited amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect. Of the amendments, the most significant—and controversial—changes are to Rule 26, which specifically incorporates proportionality …

Laurel S. Terry Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law Camille C. Marion Director of Experiential Learning, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law This post is one of a series that stems from our 4th Annual …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Recently, IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis and I met with the other members and staff of the Conference of Chief Justices Civil Justice Improvements Committee for its fourth plenary meeting in Washington, D.C. The …

Susan E. Carparelli Former Executive Director, The Center for Out of Court Divorce So often when parents begin the process of separation and divorce they feel vulnerable and uncertain about how to proceed. Their greatest fear is the potential of harm to …

Mary A. Lynch Director, Center for Excellence in Law Teaching, Albany Law School Rosemary Queenan Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Albany Law School This post is one of a series that stems from our 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference. …

Brittany Kauffman CEO As the legal world is focused on the newly implemented amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which went into effect December 1st , there is one group that is already thinking “what next?”—the Advisory Committee on Civil …

Randy Wagner Administrative Director for Strategic Initiatives, University of Denver Sturm College of Law This post is one of a series that stems from our 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference. The author(s) presented a …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation In the Jefferson County District Courthouse in Golden, Colorado, family law self-represented litigants in court on post-decree matters have a new resource available to them. The Turelli Foundation, …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Today, December 1, the long awaited amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure go into effect. The “package” of amendments include rule changes across a number of rules (specifically Rules 1, 4, 16, 26, 30, 31, 33, and 34) …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director We kicked off the 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference on October 1 with 16 (yes, sixteen!) Ignite-style presentations, given by ETL Fellows and faculty from across the ETL Consortium. We heard about …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications A wave of new amendments to the federal rules of civil procedure will take effect Tuesday, Dec. 1, sparking cultural and operational changes to the nation’s legal system. Approved last April by the U.S. Supreme …

Scott Greytak Policy Counsel and Research Analyst, Justice at Stake When spending in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court election surged to more than $16.5 million this month, it set a new record in U.S. history.  Special interests opened their checkbooks to …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern The Supreme Court of India recently struck down a new law that sought to increase the executive branch’s power over the selection of judges. The Court ruled the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act unconstitutional, …

Janice Davidson Former Senior Advisor, Honoring Families Initiative Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Honoring Families recently convened a diverse cross-section of the national family law bar, with the goal of identifying and …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Our collective view of litigation is a bit like the old New Yorker map , which shows New York City magnified, and then skips most of the rest of the country, landing on the west coast. Thomas Clarke, …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative November 2015 is the 75th anniversary of the Missouri Plan, an innovative approach to selecting state judges intended to preserve their impartiality while holding them publicly accountable for their …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation The ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services has published an issue paper exploring the development of new categories of judicially-authorized-and-regulated legal services providers. The …