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Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Several groups have filed a motion requesting that Justice Paul Newby recuse himself from hearing their challenge to the legislature’s redistricting plan because of the campaign support he received …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Governor Rick Perry  appointed his chief of staff to fill a supreme court vacancy  created by Justice Dale Wainwright’s September resignation. Governor Perry has a history of appointing close …

Corina D. Gerety Former Director of Research, IAALS IAALS has just released a Rule One Initiative research report entitled Measuring Rule 16.1: Colorado’s Simplified Procedure Experiment.  In 2004, the Colorado Supreme Court put in place Rule 16.1, a …

Brittany Kauffman CEO A Metropolitan Corporate Counsel article this week asks " Are Courts Beginning to Take Proportionality Seriously in E-Discovery ?" As the article recognizes, the concept of proportionality has been a part of the Federal Rules of …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern Governor Sam Brownback and his conservative allies have  gained substantial majorities  in both houses of the Kansas Legislature as a result of the recent general election. With this support, it is predicted that in early …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Fellow, Professor Michael Madison, has written a blog post examining the state of legal education and emphasizing the need for change. Professor Madison suggests that "[c]hanges in the …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern In August, the American Bar Association formed the Task Force on the Future of Legal Education to analyze the challenges facing law schools. The Task Force is now seeking comments about the goals law schools should adopt; …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Speaking at the Colorado Judicial Institute’s Tenth Annual Judicial Excellence for Colorado dinner, former Iowa justices Marsha Ternus, David Baker, and Michael Streit stressed the importance to the …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative People for the American Way lauded the work of a federal judicial screening committee established by Senators Udall and Bennet to assist them in recommending to the White House a replacement for a …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern Professor Rebecca Aviel , member of the Steering Committee to the  Honoring Families Initiative ,  has won the third annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility for her article, …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern Congratulations to Professor  Howard Markman , member of the  Honoring Families Initiative Advisory Committee , for receiving the University of Denver's John Evans Professorship Award . This honor is the University's highest …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Proponents of replacing Minnesota’s nonpartisan judicial elections with commission-based gubernatorial appointment, retention elections, and performance evaluation were pleased to see Democrats …

Brittany Kauffman CEO The Texas Supreme Court has issued its long-awaited rules for expedited actions this week, making the process mandatory in cases of $100,000 or less. The rules are being adopted as a result of Texas legislation that called upon the …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern In an interview with Parade Magazine , Justice  Sandra Day O'Connor , Honorary Chair of the Advisory Committee to the  Quality Judges Initiative , discusses why approval ratings for the U.S. Supreme Court justices have …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Rebecca Love Kourlis, Executive Director of IAALS, will speak about the organization’s work to improve the use of financial experts in litigation on December 5 for the Colorado Bar Association CLE’s Measuring Lost …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The defeat of two incumbent supreme court justices has led some to consider making changes to the judicial election process . Neither justices’ qualifications were called into question, and both …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Senate Republicans are split on whether to consider confirmation of judicial nominees, many of which have been pending for several months, during the lame-duck session or wait until the next …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS “It seems that the wag who once said ‘marriage is grand—divorce is a hundred grand’ was underestimating the situation.” So began Chapter 8—which focused on divorce and child custody cases—in our 2011 …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern On October 19, 2012, the University of Missouri hosted a symposium which addressed how law schools can better prepare students to practice law. The symposium consisted of scholars, practitioners, and judges who analyzed the …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern In Bexar County, the recent election has produced another wave of straight-ticket voting on judges. Texas is one of only three states in which voters can cast a straight-party ballot for all candidates , including judicial …