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Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The state election commission voted to postpone consideration of whether the “rescue funds” provision of the public financing pilot program for supreme court candidates survived a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court decision that …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A Democratic Party committee chose a state senator to run against Justice Terrence O’Donnell in November, following the previous candidate’s withdrawal from the race in April due to lack of campaign funds . Thu, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The judicial council forwarded to Governor Parnell the names of two potential appointees for the supreme court vacancy created by Justice Morgan Christen’s move to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The lone Democrat on the supreme court defended her colleagues against attacks from her Republican challenger. Justice Yvette McGee Brown rejected the claim that the justice legislate from the bench and described …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program has released its Final Report on Phase Two, May 2010 to May 2012 . The Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program originated in the U.S. District Court for …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The newly-formed Oklahoma Civil Justice Council is developing a judicial rating system that will rate court of civil appeals and supreme court judges on a scale of zero to 100, on the basis of their support for …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The American Bar Association (ABA) weighed in on the federal judicial nominations that are languishing in the U.S. Senate. On June 20, ABA President Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III sent a letter on behalf of the ABA to …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The judicial selection commission sponsored by Senators Inouye and Akaka submitted to the senators a list of three candidates for an upcoming vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. The vacancy is …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Governor Abercrombie appointed Circuit Court Judge Richard Pollack to the supreme court . Pollack was one of five nominees submitted by the judicial selection commission. This was Governor Abercrombie’s second …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Professor Michael Madison’s ( view his course portfolio here ) “ goal is to inspire students to learn, and to have the confidence to learn , long after they have left [his] classroom.” He adopts a “writing to learn” …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director An unpopular decision became an issue in a supreme court race . The high court weakened the Open Beaches Act in a 5-3 decision in April, and the challenger to incumbent Justice Nathan Hecht criticized him for siding …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director When Michael Madison left Silicon Valley to begin teaching law, he thought a lot about how to teach judgment: “This was a question that was at the forefront of my mind because it was so much a forefront of my practice.” …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Mark Nadeau is a member of the Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers A dvisory Committee and the co-managing partner of the Phoenix office of DLA Piper , one of the largest law firms in the world. He recently took some time to …

Marnee Baker Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers is proud to announce the newest members of its Advisory Committee . Among the new members are a District Attorney, a former Public Defender, a recruiter of in-house counsel, a past president of the American Bar …

Stephen Daniels Previously, we have drawn from the Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers’ survey to describe the 23 ETL Consortium schools, explore the kinds of curricular innovations in which they may be engaged, and see how they compare to law schools more …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The house judiciary committee tabled by a 13-12 vote a measure calling for merit selection of the state’s appellate judges, and it is unlikely that it will come up again before the legislature’s summer recess. …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The proposed 2012 platform of the Iowa Republican Party calls for state legislators to impeach judges who recognize a right to same-sex marriage and supports eliminating the role of the state judicial nominating …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director After the governor failed to make a judicial appointment within the 30 day limit , the judicial selection commission made the appointment from its list of well-qualified nominees. The governor had selected the same …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Invoking what is known as the “Thurmond Rule,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that no votes would be allowed on nominees to the federal courts of appeals until after the November election. Nominees to …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Mark Nadeau regularly teaches oral advocacy and trial tactics and is a leading commentator on international dispute resolution. As a member of the  Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers   Advisory Committee , he …