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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: …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative President Obama appears to be making diversity a priority in his judicial appointments. Of the 35 federal judicial nominees awaiting a Senate confirmation vote, 17 are women, 15 are ethnic …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern With marriages involving dual citizenship becoming increasingly common, Forbes contributor Jeff Landers has evaluated how the  laws of different countries can compound the complications of divorce . The article warns that …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern Recently, Examiner.com reviewed a  new mobile application called the Healthy Divorce App , designed to educate and advise users on how to get through the divorce process in an emotionally healthy way. The app focuses on …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Over the last two months, the IAALS board of advisers has welcomed several distinguished members to the fold, all of whom are committed to the missions of our Initiatives and the continuous improvement of the …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS The oldest advice in the world is that the trick is not in knowing the answers—rather it is in knowing the right questions to ask. Such advice has broad application, and in the current debate about …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern New York Magazine has published an article discussing the intricate and often difficult  path from gay marriage to divorce . The article interviews a recently divorced couple, who describe their relationship and how it …

Brittany Kauffman CEO On Monday, the United States District Court for the District of Oregon directed  that local rule amendments that had previously been proposed and submitted for public comment take effect March 1, 2013. The amendments, which are …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) has developed a new model for estimating civil litigation costs , known as the Civil Litigation Cost Model (CLCM). The model is based on the amount of time lawyers expend on various …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Oklahoma has joined several other states—including Florida , Illinois , Kansas , Minnesota , North Carolina , Pennsylvania , South Dakota , and Tennessee —whose legislatures are considering changes …

Brittany Kauffman CEO Despite the fact that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(g) went into effect in 1983, the first judicial opinion enforcing this provision was issued just last month. In Branhaven LLC v. Beeftek, Inc. , __ F.R.D. __, 2013 WL 388429 …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative As it did in 2012, Florida’s house of representatives has proposed  giving the governor greater authority  over the membership of the state’s judicial nominating commissions. These commissions …