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The Tennessee legislature ended its 2013 session without renewing the state's judicial nominating commission, which screens applicants for appellate court vacancies and recommends the best qualified candidates to the governor for appointment. The… MORE
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The Hon. Jack Zouhary, federal district court judge and member of the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice, recently penned an article for the Federal Lawyer about his case management process and the… MORE
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Taking some lawmakers by surprise, prominent Republicans in the house and senate announced that they will continue their pursuit of a constitutional change to the process for selecting supreme court and court of appeals judges in the final days of… MORE
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With Justice Joan Orie Melvin's resignation from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on May 1, Governor Tom Corbett has ninety days to fill the vacancy. Pennsylvania judges are chosen in partisan elections and stand for retention for subsequent terms,… MORE
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In a recent speech to the Ohio State Bar Association, Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor identified eight areas in which the state's process for electing judges might be improved. Among the reforms that O'Connor put on the table were the creation of a… MORE
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As a former Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and a current member of the IAALS Board of Advisors, I commend Governor Maggie Hassan for her wisdom in establishing the Judicial Selection Commission to advise her in filling vacancies on… MORE
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It has been an eventful week judicial selection-wise in the Kansas legislature. As IAALS Online covered last week, conservative legislators and bar leaders were discussing a compromise selection reform proposal for the state's appellate judges. The… MORE
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Bob Emery is one of the preeminent national experts on issues related to children and divorce. He is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law at the University of Virginia. He has both written… MORE
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This September, IAALS and the National Judicial College will host an educational summit exclusively tailored for state court judges on all facets of the discovery of electronically stored information (ESI)—from preservation to production to… MORE
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On March 7, 2013, Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal entered an Administrative Order recognizing the successful ad hoc use of a Fast Track jury trial process in South Carolina and implementing the voluntary process statewide. The Court also adopted… MORE