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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 2001, when he was appointed by Governor Rick… MORE
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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 model developed by IAALS, continues to grow.
Recently,… MORE
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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 conference, which will focus on connecting the profession… MORE
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In a 5-0 ruling, the Arizona Supreme Court struck down a law that required the state's judicial nominating commission to send the names of five candidates to the governor for possible appointment. According to the court's opinion, “the Legislature… MORE
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The State Bar of Michigan, which represents more than 43,000 attorneys and judges, has asked the secretary of state to require disclosure of funders of "issue ads" in state elections. Specifically, the bar is seeking an interpretive ruling that such… MORE
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The ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education has released its draft report, which highlights proposals and conclusions related to changes in the pricing of legal education, liberalizing or eliminating certain accreditation standards,… MORE
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As IAALS Online has covered in the past, the Coalition for Impartial Justice has been working for several years to move Minnesota from nonpartisan judicial elections to commission-based appointment with retention elections and performance evaluation… MORE
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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spent a few days last week with us here at IAALS. On Monday, we held a meeting of the O'Connor Advisory Committee to the Quality Judges Initiative, the membership of which includes not only Justice O'Connor, but former… MORE
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Indiana's superior courts are created by statute, and as such, the method of selecting judges is determined by statute as well and varies from county to county. In two counties, superior court judges are chosen through a commission-based appointment… MORE
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In 2012, North Carolina was the only state with contested judicial elections in which voters were provided with performance evaluations of the judicial candidates—both sitting judges and challengers—on their ballot. The North Carolina Bar… MORE