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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 …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The state legislature approved a new judicial discipline system , calling for replacing the existing disciplinary body—the court on the judiciary—with an entity known as the board of judicial conduct. The ten judge …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lower federal court decision that rejected a challenge to the role of lawyers on the state’s judicial nominating commissions. The lawsuit alleged that it is …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall Rader, who last year unveiled the Model Order on E-Discovery Cases  developed by the Federal Circuit Advisory Council's E-Discovery Committee, recently  told a conference of …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Governor Haslam indicated that he would support moving to a federal selection system for the state’s appellate judges, after a senate committee approved such a proposal . Earlier this year Haslam joined with Lieutenant …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Supreme court justice Joan Orie Melvin’s sister was convicted on 24 corruption charges , but not on theft and ethics-related charges involving the justice’s past campaigns. Legal experts said this did not rule out a …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Republican candidate for attorney general voiced his support for moving to a federal system of selecting judges. Such a proposal passed a house committee in March and is under consideration in the senate judiciary …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Justice Frank Sullivan announced his intention to step down by the end of August , allowing Governor Daniels to make his third appointment to the high court. It also presents another opportunity to appoint a woman to …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director His fellow supreme court justices elected Justice Ricky Polston to serve as the next chief justice . The position rotates among the court’s members. Polston was appointed to the court in 2008 by Governor Crist. Wed, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Two supreme court races are on the ballot in November, with two Republicans and six Democrats vying for the seats. As the May 8 primary approached, the candidates expressed differing views on judicial recusal, public …

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 …