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Zachary Willis Director of Communications The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review  recently published an article about proposed legislation to change the Pennsylvania judicial selection process. Two state representatives of Pennsylvania have introduced a bill to …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The U.S. Senate voted 52 to 48 to  change its rules  regarding use of the filibuster to block votes on nominees to the lower federal courts and executive branch positions. The filibuster had been …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In October, we had a room full of people abuzz  with talk about the present state of legal education and its future. These were educators who are already changing the way legal education happens and practitioners who …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In a recent opinion dissenting from the denial of certiorari in an Alabama death penalty case, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the pressures of partisan judicial …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director At our 2nd Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference , we honored Bill Henderson, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, with our Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Award. Afterward, he delivered a keynote address …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director This year, we tried something new at the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference . During the reception, we opened the floor to four [six-minute, 20-slide] presentations by participants who wanted to share an idea with …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative O'Connor Advisory Committee member and former Texas chief justice  Wallace Jefferson recently appeared on MSNBC's Craig Melvin show. That segment of the program focused on the findings of the latest …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Professor John Lande of the University of Missouri School of Law gives students a realistic and comprehensive perspective on legal negotiation through a semester-long simulated experience in his  Negotiation course . In …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director It's been just over six months since we launched  Law Jobs: By the Numbers™ , the interactive online tool that gives prospective law students the most transparent and complete law school employment rate information …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Last week, Bill Sullivan, lead author of Educating Lawyers and the founding director of Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers , did an interview with Insight Labs on the future of law, discussing legal education (and reform …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications In 2012, IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis was named an Honorary Diplomate of ABOTA—the American Board of Trial Advocates. She received the award last month in Austin, Texas, when she presented at the …

Barbara Blackwell Former Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships IAALS is extremely grateful for the unwavering generosity of the Gates Frontiers Fund. Entirely supported by gifts and grants, IAALS values support at every level. From time to time, we …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern Harvard Law School's “Case Studies Blog” recently featured the University of Denver Sturm College of Law 's Lawyering Process Program as one that helps students begin to develop their identities as lawyers in the first …

Robert P. Thompson Former Director of Communications & Marketing Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers  announces a newly expanded and integrated collection of online  legal education resources for law schools and professors . These teaching tools were compiled …

Brittany Kauffman CEO On November 7th, the Civil Rules Advisory Committee held the first of three hearings on the proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The hearing, which took place in Washington D.C., provided an opportunity for …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A couple years ago, Milbank Tweed announced Milbank@Harvard , billed as a "groundbreaking multi-year training program for Milbank associates" to give them broader context for the commercial matters they handle for …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Studies on predictors of divorce abound. Among the more recent is a study exploring a connection between the intensity of one's smile—as memorialized in a yearbook picture—and the likelihood of …

Stephen Daniels “[Lawyers] who have smaller shops and are looking to take on people out of Baylor because they're ready to walk into a courtroom. Baylor has that edge of teaching you how to go try cases . . . .” Responses like this are common from Texas …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation Recent studies are shedding new light on the impact of divorce on society and the individual. According to a Brown University longitudinal study, based on data collected beginning in 1948, divorce may …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill calling for a move to merit selection for judges of Pennsylvania's appellate courts. Pennsylvania is currently one of nine states that …