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Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director LawWeek Colorado recently featured a story on Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers , highlighting the twenty law schools around the country that have already joined our efforts. The article included interviews with three …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Republican Allen Loughry, who is running for the supreme court of appeals, is the only one of eight candidates to seek public campaign financing through the state’s pilot program. The public financing program provides …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A district court judge may have violated the state’s code of judicial conduct by writing a letter soliciting campaign contributions for a fellow judge who is running for a state supreme court seat. If a complaint is …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The supreme court adopted new rules that bar individual judges from taking budget requests and suggestions for revisions to the law directly to legislators without first getting appropriate approval. These rules are in …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A state senator criticized Governor Christie for not taking action on longstanding superior court vacancies. A shortage of judges recently led to a four-month suspension of civil trials in the state’s busiest …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director By a 5-4 vote, the state judicial nominating commission voted to bar its members from contributing to or actively participating in any judicial race in the state, including the retention elections of three supreme court …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Professor Amy Landers discusses the upside of interactive casebooks. Now available as part of some  paper-format textbooks, students can link to the subject matter of the cases, including clips of songs, images, and …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Washington & Lee law professor and Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Fellow Jim Moliterno recently presented at Pepperdine Law Review Symposium on “The Lawyer of the Future.” Moliterno observes that the root cause of the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In their latest podcast , Law Schooled, a student forum blog on law school reform asks the following questions : Should law students have a say in legal education reform? Why should law students have a say in their …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The North Carolina Bar Association has released judicial election information , containing results from the 2011 Judicial Performance Evaluation Surveys and recent Non-Incumbent Judicial Candidate Evaluation Surveys, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Anyone who has stopped by our site knows that we’re building a robust set of resources for law professors and law schools committed to—or even just curious about—innovating legal education. From teaching strategies to …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director One student’s exploration of whether the phrase “think like a lawyer” has lost a uniform definition, if not all meaning altogether. Here’s her take on this “flurry of semantical, romantical fun,” inspired by Judith …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director We recently sat down to talk with John Gleason . As Regulation Counsel for the Colorado Supreme Court, he directs the office of the Court responsible for lawyer admissions, registration, regulation, and client …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Legal Skills Prof Blog provides seven tips for how law firms and attorneys can make sure that skills-based legal education is a priority--including making a commitment to interview at schools with strong skills …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Scott Fruehwald featured Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers for our Family Law with Skills course , co-taught by Andy Schepard and Herbie DiFonzo. “What impresses me most about the ETL Course Portfolios is the strong positive …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The house judiciary committee rejected by a 7-7 vote a proposal calling for all of the state’s judges to be chosen in popular elections. A majority vote was needed for the bill to advance to the full legislature. The …

Marnee Baker Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers adds two new partners to its Consortium of law schools that demonstrate a commitment to legal education reform and current Carnegie-style curricular offerings. Albany Law School has a long-established focus on …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan recently joined Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the honorary chair of our O'Connor Advisory Committee , at the Newseum to commemorate the 30th anniversary of …

Marnee Baker We are pleased to announce that professors whose courses are featured on the ETL website will be named Fellows of Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers in order to honor their roles in advancing legal education. At present, the Fellows of ETL are: …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A recent blog post by Jeff Lipshaw on the inevitability of multi-disciplinarity in law practice made comparisons to a Wall Street Journal article * that called for expansion of the undergraduate business major: “. . .I …