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Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Facing sentencing for a corruption conviction and a house resolution calling for her impeachment , Justice Joan Orie Melvin announced her resignation , effective May 1. The vacancy could be filled in …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern The divorce rate among baby boomers has reached an all-time high of 25 percent, with many more newly single 50-somethings experiencing  difficulties planning and saving for retirement .  USA Today  reports that it will cost …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern In a recent article,  The Huffington Post  offers advice on  how families with teens can better cope with divorce . Divorce can particularly stress family relationships involving teenagers; teens are already struggling to …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Four former Pennsylvania governors, including two Democrats and two Republicans, joined together in expressing support for a proposal to change the way the state's appellate judges are selected. A …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The District of Nevada adopted a Short Trial Program on March 11, 2013. The Short Trial Rules include the express purpose of expediting "civil trials (both bench trials and jury trials) through procedures designed to control the …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative By a vote of 28-12, the senate gave final approval to a bill that ends the role of the nominating commission in appointing court of appeals judges and requires senate confirmation of such …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Last week, IAALS Associate Executive Director Karen J. Mathis was presented with the Community Service Award by the University of Denver. As part of the DU Founders Day celebration, Karen and five other award …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The house of representatives approved with a 78-14 vote a proposed constitutional amendment that would alter the process for selecting Tennessee's appellate judges. The senate approved the measure …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson of the Texas Supreme Court issued his State of the Judiciary message on March 6. In his remarks, Chief Justice Jefferson, who is also member of the Quality Judges Initiative …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern The  Business Insider  has compiled a list of the  9 most costly cities for divorcees . The list considered each city's average fee rate for divorce attorneys in addition to the financial impact of each state's different …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern ABC 7 Denver News  reports that the task force established to determine how to regulate marijuana in Colorado after the passage of Amendment 64 has no plans to create any laws dictating  marijuana consumption in child …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The United States District Court for the District of Colorado announced proposed amendments to its Local Rules on March 7, 2013. The proposed amendments are few, but include an amendment to D.C.COLO.LCivR 1.1 to include a section on …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers   Advisory Committee member Paul Lippe  recently spoke to the “Deans Workshop for ABA Approved Schools,” and, while that meeting was off the record, he proposes new ideas and …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern Michigan Law has created an online calculator called the " Debt Wizard " that helps current and prospective law students  better understand their student loan obligations  and how their perspective career paths may impact …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Arizona’s house of representatives passed a bill that would increase from three to five the minimum number of candidates a nominating commission sends to the governor for each judicial vacancy. The …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Responding to a 6-3 supreme court decision that invalidated a legislative initiative requiring a two-thirds vote for tax increases, three Republican senators proposed a bill that would eliminate four …

Marnee Baker The national dialogue about changing legal education has proposed many ideas aimed at making the system better, one of which being the outright elimination of the third year of law school. In the wake of this consideration, Luke Bierman, the …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern The  ABA Journal  reports that a  South Florida judge has approved an out-of-court settlement  allowing three people—two women and the gay man they used as a sperm donor—to be listed as parents on a 23-month-old girl's birth …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS This post was originally published on The Huffington Post on March 5, 2013. In the recent blog post  "In Our Courts 'Justice' Is Bought,"  Lance Soskin argued that "litigation is a multi-billion …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications In its Winter 2013 edition, The Arkansas Lawyer makes the case for a more efficient option for trial by jury in civil cases, and does so by introducing and reprinting an excerpt from A Return to Trials: …