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Robert P. Thompson Former Director of Communications & Marketing Denver, Colo. – Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers , an initiative of IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, announces its second annual …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director We are pleased to announce the newest member of our Consortium of law schools committed to innovation: Touro Law Center . Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg School of Law (Touro Law Center) has been an innovator in the …

Robert P. Thompson Former Director of Communications & Marketing The word is out! The new Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families at the University of Denver is open for business. Media buzz around the first-of-its-kind Center, based on the …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson of the Supreme Court of Texas announced this week that he will  resign from the court  effective October 1. Chief Justice Jefferson has served on the court since …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director This first appeared on August 26, 2013, in the print edition of LawWeek Colorado . The American Bar Association's 2013 Annual Meeting in San Francisco was a sprawling event with thousands of attendees spread out over 20 …

Barbara Blackwell Former Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships As a subscriber to IAALS Online, you are one of our many partners. We thank you for your interest, your input, and your support. We want to share with you a bit more about other ways in …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS Part of what we do at IAALS is to convene people who have different viewpoints around a particular topic—in hopes that areas of consensus will emerge from the dialogue. We convened one such group at …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation The Honoring Families Initiative has released a white paper on the role of courts and communities in separation and divorce. Designed to spark national conversation and encourage collaboration between …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative According to a poll funded by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, 74 percent of Oklahoma voters favor choosing appellate judges in contested elections over a merit selection and …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation In the latest edition of Unified Family Court Connection , IAALS Honoring Families Initiative Advisory Committee members William J. Howe, III and Justice Paul J. DeMuniz highlight Oregon's efforts to …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern preLaw Magazine 's 2013 Back to School issue highlights numerous achievements from our Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers   Consortium schools . In an article discussing some of the more recent and important developments in …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern The Delaware Legislature recently  passed a resolution  requesting a study to examine the possibility of opening Family Court proceedings to the public. Delaware's legislature has shown a long history of interest in …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Last week, during a town hall at Binghamton University, President Obama jumped into the legal education fray when he suggested that law schools could increase the value of a law degree without sacrificing its quality by …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Last week, Governor Brownback nominated his chief counsel , Caleb Stegall, to a newly created seat on Kansas' court of appeals, reigniting a war of words between his supporters and detractors. The …

Robert P. Thompson Former Director of Communications & Marketing Effective July 1, 2013, two current IAALS managers stepped up to lead their respective divisions. Corina Gerety has assumed the role of Director of Research and Brittany Kauffman is now …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative A recent piece in the  Chicago Sun-Times sheds light on the process for selecting judges in Cook County, Illinois. Earlier this month, the Cook County Democratic Party's Judicial Selection Committee …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern At the direction of the Montana Legislature, the Montana Law and Justice Interim Committee met last month with the objective of finding ways to  improve the Montana family court  and domestic relations proceedings. To …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative For the second time in his tenure—and the second time in state history—New Jersey Governor Chris Christie declined to renominate a sitting supreme court justice.  Christie offered two rationales for …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative On August 12, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivered the keynote address at the 2013 Legislative Summit of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) in Atlanta, …

Katherine Kirk Former IAALS Intern A recent article in the  Washington Post suggests that our current concept of marriage needs to adapt to the high divorce rate in the United States. As a solution, the author borrows a concept from property law and …