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Zachary Willis Director of Communications Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern This month, IAALS—the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver—will hold its annual Rebuilding Justice Award Dinner . The award recognizes …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The West Virginia legislature has passed, and the governor has signed, a bill that makes elections for the state's judges nonpartisan. West Virginia's judicial elections attracted the national …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The Texas Lawyer recently reported on Texas' downward trend in civil lawsuits, which have dropped 17 percent over the last 10 years. When separated out, this trend is even more striking in county-level courts, which have seen a 36 …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern The  Women's Legal Centre ACT  (Australian Capital Territory), in the Australian capital of Canberra, has opened a divorce clinic for women from diverse cultural backgrounds . The clinic provides free legal advice and …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern In a recent blog post, Richard Zorza shares some thoughts on improving services for self-represented litigants in the United States. Zorza, coordinator of the national Self Represented Litigation Network (SRLN), believes that …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Mark your calendars! The 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference will take place October 1-3, 2015, in Denver, Colorado. Each year, this conference has brought leaders in legal education together to …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The Colorado Supreme Court has requested comments on proposed amendments to the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes are focused on improving access to the civil justice system by making pretrial case management more …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution has awarded IAALS and the Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families (RCSDF) the 2015 John W. Cooley Lawyer as Problem Solver Award . This honor is …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern On March 6, University of Maine Visiting Professor and University Counsel Jeffrey Thaler published a paper on Meeting Law Students' Experiential Needs in the Classroom: Building an Administrative Law Practicum Implementing the …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern In a recent article , Professor Clare Huntington, Fordham University School of Law, argues for family law reforms that address the “seismic shift” occurring in American families. Today, more and more children are born to …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Whether law students are practice-ready after graduation depends greatly upon whom you ask. In BARBRI's first “State of the Legal Field Survey,” 70% of third-year law students thought they possessed “sufficient practice skills” …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In a recent Politico piece , the former chief justice of Alabama's supreme court offered a firsthand perspective on the relationship between electing judges and maintaining impartial courts and …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Minnesota legislators are proposing an alternative to traditional divorce proceedings—the Cooperative Private Divorce . The bill aims to allow couples to form divorce agreements without filing with the court or needing a …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern On March 12, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was  inducted in the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame as a Living Legacy . The Hall of Fame “pays tribute to the remarkable women whose contributions to the arts, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In December, we began contacting state bar leaders across the country, asking them to send a survey to every lawyer in their state in an effort to get to the bottom of a seemingly simple inquiry: what are the …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern The  Quality Judges Initiative  believes that court systems should reflect the social makeup of their communities, and therefore should be diverse among many demographics. As March is Women's History Month, we recognize the …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern New York has set its sights on access to justice and alleviating some of the issues that low-income litigants face needing help from justice system. In his annual  State of the Judiciary  address on February 17, New York Chief …

Hunter Metcalf IAALS Intern Divorce can put families through a long and difficult process of litigation—but does it have to? At its core, the collaborative divorce process occurs outside of court and seeks to resolve issues in a more respectful and …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director If you're like most prospective students, there's a good chance the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings will play some kind of role in your decision about where to go to law school. We can all debate the merits …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative As has become standard operating procedure in the last several sessions, the Kansas legislature is once again considering proposals to alter the process for selecting the state's appellate judges. …