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Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative A new study from the American Constitution Society finds a correlation between the airing of TV ads in state supreme court races and justices' decisions in criminal cases. According to Skewed …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern The call for cooperation in legal disputes is on its way to being enshrined within the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in a more meaningful way. Several years ago, the Sedona Conference®'s Cooperation Proclamation called for …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Our nation's family courts—where divorce, separation, and custody matters are decided—are often the only foray with the legal system that many people will have. And, for many states, these family cases make up a …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Courts in many countries have been striving to  provide various services  to help  facilitate the increasing number  of self-represented litigants who need their services— especially in family law cases . In Ontario, Canada, …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS would like to congratulate Malia Reddick, Consultant to our Quality Judges Initiative , on being named recipient of the National Association of Women Judges' Award of Appreciation. Malia will receive the …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Riley Combelic IAALS Intern “Big dreams, hard work, and serendipity” are the words Judge Christine M. Arguello of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado would use to describe how she …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO Tomorrow, October 10, 2014, I will be in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to attend and present at a seminar, sponsored by ABOTA, NMDLA, and NMTLA, that will discuss the question: “ Can Summary Jury Trials Revive a Declining Civil Jury …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to settle a conflict in lower federal and state courts regarding whether judicial candidates may personally solicit campaign contributions. The nation's highest …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Public opinion polls consistently show that voters know very little about judges and judicial candidates on the ballot and wish they had more information. Around the country, judicial branch …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Denver, Colo. – IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, announces the release of our final findings on Colorado's experiment with new court procedures …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Cara Cunningham Warren, Associate Professor of Legal Writing & Research at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, has written a forthcoming paper titled " Achieving the American Bar Association's Pedagogy Mandate: …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Earlier this month,  Law Week Colorado   published an article highlighting IAALS' report  Choosing Judges: Judicial Nominating Commissions and the Selection of Supreme Court Justices …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern A Netherlands company is  headed to New York to establish a "divorce hotel." Couples with uncomplicated divorces can spend a weekend at the hotel to work through the process quickly with mediators and independent lawyers, with …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO After reviewing the public comments , and making some changes in response, the Iowa Supreme Court has approved a new expedited civil action rule (ECA rule) and a package of new rules and amendments collectively referred to as “ …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern A recent article in The New York Times  argues that divorced and never-married parents have, in a sense, lost their right to choose how they want to parent. A 1936 New York State Court of Appeals opinion gives "[t]he vast …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Last month,  Suffolk University Law School , an  Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers  Consortium school, hosted the first-ever  "Hackcess to Justice" legal hackathon . The event was designed to bring together some of the best legal …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The outcome of governors' races in at least two states— Florida and Kansas —will have meaningful implications for those states' courts. Florida's next governor could have the opportunity to fill four …

Brittany K.T. Kauffman CEO On Tuesday, September 16, the Judicial Conference of the United States forwarded the proposed rule amendments to the Supreme Court with the recommendation that they be adopted. The announcement  recognized that these amendments …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern Hello all! Riley Combelic, here. I am a third-year law student at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law focusing on corporate and securities law. This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (September 18-20), I will be …

Riley Combelic IAALS Intern A recent  ABA survey report found that self-help legal centers around the nation "are a vibrant and effective resource" to those they serve. The ABA's Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services surveyed approximately …