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Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Florida is one of eight states with a commission-based judicial appointment process wherein the governor appoints all members of the nominating commissions. In Florida, as in Arizona, Delaware, and …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Professor Anthony C. Infanti, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law , uses a problem-based teaching method to expose students to the complex concept of …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative According to a new analysis conducted by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, justices on Wisconsin's high court tend to favor parties whose attorneys contributed to their election …

Brittany Kauffman CEO In response to increasing pressures on the civil justice system, both at the state and federal level, many jurisdictions around the country have implemented an alternative process that is designed to provide speedy and less expensive …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern Earlier this year, a local news channel praised the University of Miami's  Health and Elder Law Medical Legal Partnership  in a piece entitled " Joining Forces .” The clinic, run by Dr. Pat Caralis of the VA …

Sarah Clark One of my primary responsibilities as Counsel to the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court is to start and maintain dialogue among Colorado's law schools, bench, and bar in an effort to find and promote commonality among their efforts to …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Over the summer, the Tennessee legislature declined to renew the state's judicial nominating commission, which was used to recommend well-qualified candidates for appellate judgeships to the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Much of the work on core competencies for entry-level lawyers has focused on large firms, often because it has been harder to collect this information from small firms. This is a challenge because small and medium firms …

Robert P. Thompson Former Director of Communications & Marketing IAALS is honored to be featured front and center in the Fall 2013 edition of The Bulletin , a publication of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). The article chronicles the six year …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative As Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts , a longtime advocate of judicial selection reform, celebrates its 25th year, supporters of moving from partisan elections to commission-based appointment of the …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern Judge Kevin Burke , Minnesota District Court Judge and member of the IAALS Board of Advisors, has written about the ideas and lessons of Roscoe Pound, former Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916-1936, and what  the legal …

Corina D. Gerety Former Director of Research, IAALS Over the past few years, IAALS has been tracking the Colorado Civil Access Pilot Project, along with numerous other rules projects across the country . These efforts are aimed at providing greater access …

Brittany Kauffman CEO As many have recognized , electronic discovery has arrived in the state courts, with challenges that are as big and complicated as in federal court. State courts are faced with a wide variety of dockets, a large number of cases, and …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Thanks to a working group of judges and lawyers, California's Administrative Office of the Courts now offers a required course on judicial ethics for incumbent judges and attorney challengers running …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative IAALS Online readers are familiar with recent efforts to alter the process for selecting Kansas' appellate judges. Supporters of increased funding for public schools are concerned about the impact …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern Chad C. Schmucker, former state court administrator and circuit judge of Jackson County, Michigan, will become the 8th president of the  National Judicial College in 2014. As president, he will work to provide innovative …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative At a recent public forum, Ohio's three newest supreme court justices discussed the threat posed to state courts by significant turnover on the bench. Over the next six years, four of the high court's …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Opponents of commission-based appointment of judges—also known as the Missouri Plan, for the state in which the judicial selection process originated—have obtained  approval from the secretary of …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Judge Paul W. Grimm is well known for his contributions in the area of improving the pretrial discovery process, particularly with regard to the discovery of electronically stored information. In addition to his many other roles, …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Two retired judges will co-chair a new task force on judicial independence established by the New Jersey Bar Association. According to the bar association's president, the task force will direct its …