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Zachary Willis Director of Communications John S. Gleason is Regulation Counsel for the Colorado Supreme Court, where he directs the office responsible for lawyer admissions, registration, regulation, and client protection. He recently sat down with …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Spring 2012 edition of Transparent Courthouse® Quarterly is now available. Transparent Courthouse® Quarterly is a quarterly newsletter reporting highlights from all IAALS initiatives. Sign up for Transparent …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The April 2012 edition of Selection Snapshots is now available. Sign up for Selection Snapshots and other IAALS newsletters here . Tue, 04/03/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In an interview with Paul Lippe on Legal OnRamp , Dean Martin Katz, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers executive committee member, discusses experiential learning, the Carnegie Report , and Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers . …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Competing proposals for judicial recusal were offered by the chief justice and a supreme court candidate. One plan would allow the other justices to determine when a colleague should recuse, while the other would leave …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The senate voted unanimously to replace the existing judicial disciplinary body —the court on the judiciary—with a new entity known as the board of judicial conduct. The state bar and the supreme court would no longer …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Commentators speculated that this year’s judicial races could break past records for campaign spending. In 2010, with two seats on the ballot, $11 million was spent on TV ads alone, most of which were negative in tone …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The three supreme court justices up for retention in November are, reluctantly, campaigning to keep their seats . An effort known as Restore Justice 2012 has been launched to defeat them, citing “activist” decisions in …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The March 2012 edition of Selection Snapshots is now available. Sign up for Selection Snapshots and other IAALS newsletters here . Fri, 03/30/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Update :  Letter from Representative Trent Franks  to the Honorable Mark R. Kravitz and the Honorable David G. Campbell (3/21/2012) In December 2011, Rebecca Love Kourlis testified in a hearing on "The Costs and Burdens …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Professor David Thomson gave a talk on outcomes reform in legal education on March 29, 2012, at a conference sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Law Teaching at Albany Law School. He shared some of his thoughts on …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In an en banc ruling , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit restored provisions of the state code of judicial conduct that bar judges and judicial candidates from personally soliciting or accepting …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director We are pleased to share our 2011 Annual Report , which highlights our work during the past year and also peeks forward into 2012. We are honored to call you a friend, and hope that our work continues to merit that …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Chosen by a vote of his fellow justices, Matthew Durrant was sworn in as chief justice . Durrant replaces Christine Durham, who stepped down after ten years as chief but remains on the court. Wed, 03/28/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Governor Daniels selected attorney Mark Massa to replace the retiring Randall Shepard on the supreme court. The state judicial nominating commission will choose one of the five sitting justices to replace Shepard as …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Having raised $1.2 million and received Mayor Emanuel’s endorsement, Mary Jane Theis defeated her opponents in the Democratic primary by a 2-1 margin. Theis was appointed to fill a supreme court vacancy in 2010 and will …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director On March 14, Senate leaders agreed to move forward with confirmation votes for 14 judicial nominees who had earned unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee.  The deal avoided the need for procedural votes …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Dean Chemerinsky’s most recent law review article on meaningful law school reform discusses clinical/experiential learning, the need for giving feedback to students, and the realities of budget limitations.  “Legal …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director For the first time in history, the senate judiciary committee rejected a supreme court nominee. Governor Christie attributed the 7-6 vote not to confirm his nominee to an attempt by Democrats to appease unions after …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The house judiciary committee approved by a 9-6 vote a measure that would constitutionalize the Tennessee Plan for selecting judges. Mon, 03/26/2012 - …