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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 …

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, …