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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 …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In the May 8 Democratic primary, an incumbent justice and a county attorney won the nomination . According to campaign finance reports filed at the end of April, the winning candidates were also the biggest spenders. …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The same group that led the effort to unseat three justices in the 2010 retention elections announced that it will challenge the sole justice on the ballot this November , Justice David Wiggins, because of his …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Governor Lynch nominated Concord attorney Jim Bassett to fill a vacancy on the supreme court . His nomination must be confirmed by the executive council following a public hearing. Some legislators expressed concern …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Today, Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet announced the formation of a bipartisan, 11-member advisory committee that will implement an open process to recommend highly qualified applicants to fill a vacancy on the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Hosted by IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, and sponsored by DISH Network L.L.C. On June 22, 2012, IAALS is hosting eDiscovery Summit 2012, an educational summit in Denver, Colorado, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director On December 8, 2011, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware adopted a new Default Standard for Discovery, Including Discovery of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) . This new standard announces the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has incorporated a Model Order Regarding E-Discovery In Patent Cases into its Local Rules as Appendix P. A working group of the Local Rules Advisory Committee …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Confirmation of judicial nominees has been a contentious issue this year, and on May 7, 2012, lawyers, legal experts, and advocacy groups met with the White House to discuss judicial vacancies and the confirmation …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Obama administration’s efforts to diversify the federal judiciary continue.  Nancy Torresen, the first female judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, was formally sworn into office on May 3, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Frank Bowman guest blogs on Concurring Opinions and offers some thoughts on how law schools outside the top 30 can sustain themselves while meeting the needs of their students. His suggestions?  Reverse the trend toward …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The newly minted Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation launches this Fall. The SJCL will cover topics like aggregate litigation, rules of civil procedure, mass torts, jurisdictional disputes, complex litigation reform, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The senate approved a bill that would alter the process for nominating appellate judges. The judge member of the appellate judicial commission would be replaced by a gubernatorial appointee. The four commission members …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director As of mid-April, the three supreme court justices standing for retention in November had each raised between $156,000 and $160,000 for their retention effort, most of which came from lawyers and law firms. Committees …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In the context of retention opposition campaigns against three supreme court justices, the Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, and the League of Women Voters of Florida launched a “The Vote’s in Your Court” …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director An effort to impose seven-year term limits on judges failed to pass the house and is dead for this legislative session. New Hampshire is one of three states where judges serve for life, or to a mandatory retirement age …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Of the races on the ballot in the May Democratic primary elections, the two supreme court races are the most expensive so far , with the six candidates having spent $1.4 million. None of the Democratic candidates opted …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Professor Ben Madison explores how students develop their “professional identities,” –as recommended by the Carnegie report—through journaling assignments.  Journals, he observes,  help students appreciate the need for …

Bill Sullivan Senior Scholar, Center for Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, Wabash College The Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers survey, carried out last year, provides an unparalleled overview of what is happening in legal education today, giving an update of the …