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Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Governor Gregoire encouraged trial court applicants and candidates for reelection to submit themselves to being rated by minority bar associations. In making judicial appointments, the governor consults minority bar …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A judge under indictment for soliciting a bribe from a judicial applicant (among other charges) resigned from the bench to avoid disciplinary proceedings regarding offensive comments he made about gay people. Wed, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The House of Delegates gathering at the American Bar Association's Midyear Meeting in New Orleans covered court funding, civics education, attacks on judges who make unpopular decisions, and other challenges in the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The February 2012 edition of Selection Snapshots is now available. Sign up for Selection Snapshots and other IAALS newsletters here . Tue, 02/07/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Though he believes he has enough votes to move the proposal out of committee, a Republican legislator agreed to postpone until the end of the session consideration of his bill calling for popular election of all judges. …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director This article provides an overview of the Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program , which IAALS tracks as part of its Rule One Initiative , and discusses the program's potential to have an impact beyond the …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Task Force appointed by the Texas Supreme Court to recommend rules to promote “the prompt, efficient, and cost-effective resolution of civil actions” in response to H.B. 274 was unable to come to an agreement about …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director U.S. Senator and possible 2015 gubernatorial candidate David Vitter urged the state legislature to examine the current process for choosing judges—i.e., partisan elections—and consider moving to merit selection. Mon, …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In an article recapping the hearing before a House Judiciary panel on the growing costs of discovery, Eileen Malloy cites Rebecca Love Kourlis' testimony several times, including: “Civil jury trials have all but …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Sofia Adrogué, partner at Looper, Reed & McGraw, and Caroline Baker, a state district judge for more than 14 years, predict that e-discovery will continue to loom large in 2012.  With continued reliance on e-discovery …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for judicial nominees to get an up-or-down vote after 90 days, regardless of whether they could overcome a filibuster. Sun, 02/05/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director After a standoff over judicial appointments brought senate business to a halt, lieutenant governor and 2013 gubernatorial candidate Bill Bolling called for the creation of a bipartisan judicial selection commission. …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Justice Michael Gableman rejected requests that he recuse himself from three cases involving a law firm that defended him for free against an ethics violation charge. Gableman noted that justices should recuse …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Harvard's new Initiative for Learning and Teaching recently kicked off with a conference focused on teaching and learning, including demonstrations of innovative teaching methods. Click here to read the article. Sun, …

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 A proposal to amend the constitution to establish merit selection and retention for appellate judges and justices met with support and opposition from both Republicans and Democrats in the legislature. The proposal …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The three candidates competing to be the Republican candidate for chief justice of the supreme court raised nearly $150,000 in January for the March primary campaign. Wed, 02/01/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director On the new blog, The Legal Whiteboard , Bill Henderson highlights an article on legal education reform written by an adjunct professor. Henderson: Law professors rarely engage with these critiques; to acknowledge these …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The National Law Journal has compiled a special report of articles focused on costs of e-discovery, including this piece featuring IAALS' executive director Rebecca Love Kourlis . Tue, 01/31/2012 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Beth Tomerlin took Professor David Thomson's Discovery Practicum while still a student at University of Denver Sturm College of Law. In an article for the Denver Bar Association Docket, she discusses the class and how …