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Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Bill Henderson takes a look at a question that has been making the rounds: What is the answer to high student debt? After dispensing with a number of attempted answers to the question, he says: My own belief is that …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director This week The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel shared its interview with the President of Lawyers for Civil Justice, Wayne B. Mason, who spoke to the need for broad-based rule reform “to help achieve the consistency, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Two recent opinion pieces in the New York Times discussed the reforms recommended by Michigan’s Judicial Selection Task Force, which included better disclosure requirements, open primaries, and campaign oversight …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A federal judge struck down an aspect of the public financing program for appellate judges that provides rescue funds to judicial candidates who are outspent by privately funded candidates. The U.S. Supreme Court …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Professor Andrew Schepard was among our first ETL Fellows. Here , his school recognizes the honor. He teaches Family Law with Skills with, a course he co-created with Professor J. Herbie DiFonzo. It is based on the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director By a 4-3 vote, the supreme court declined to reappoint the chair of the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, which recently found probable cause that Justice David Prosser violated three parts of the state’s code of judicial …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The general assembly opted not to elect a judicial candidate who would have been the state’s first openly gay judge. Opposition to his election focused on his positions on gay marriage and the military’s now-repealed …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Two of the three supreme court justices up for reelection face challengers in the Republican primary. One justice’s opponent is running to “expose the corrosive influence of big business on the court,” while the other …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A New York Times commentary discussed the reforms recommended by the Michigan Judicial Selection Task Force, which included better disclosure requirements, open primaries, and campaign oversight committees. The piece …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A grand jury charged Justice Joan Orie Melvin with four felonies and five misdemeanors related to her use of state staffers in her 2003 and 2009 judicial campaigns. Justice Melvin issued a statement announcing that she …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director By a unanimous vote, the judicial nominating commission selected Justice Brent Dickson to serve as chief justice of the supreme court. Dickson had the support of his fellow justices and Governor Daniel. Thu, 05/17/2012 …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The  May 2012 edition  of the  Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers  newsletter is now available. Sign up for this and other IAALS newsletters  here . Thu, 05/17/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The latest edition of Rule One Review is now available. Rule One Review is a quarterly newsletter that shares information about pilot projects and other civil rules projects being monitored by the  Rule One Initiative . …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The May 2012 edition  of Selection Snapshots is now available.  Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:00 …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The April 2012 edition of the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers newsletter is now available. Sign up for this and other IAALS newsletters here . Thu, 05/17/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director We are proud to announce that IAALS' Executive Director, Rebecca Love Kourlis , has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2012 John Marshall Award , presented by the American Bar Association Justice Center . …

Marnee Baker As the Director of Custom Program, Training and Curriculum for NITA, Terre Rushton (also a member of our Advisory Committee ) helps firms address their professional development needs. NITA's learning-by-doing programs are known for developing …

Rebecca Love Kourlis Founding Executive Director, IAALS This article originally appeared in the May edition of The Docket , a publication of the Denver Bar Association .  Imagine a country without courts—where the legislative and executive branches of …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In November, voters will decide whether to make changes to the composition of the appellate judicial commission, which screens and nominates potential appointees for the supreme court and court of appeals. The changes …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Terre Rushton is Associate Executive Director of Programs for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) as well as serving as a member of the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Advisory Committee . NITA helps …