Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The November 2011 edition of the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers newsletter is now available. Sign up for this and other IAALS newsletters here . Wed, 12/14/2011 - …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The December 2011 edition of the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers newsletter is now available. Sign up for this and other IAALS newsletters here . Wed, 12/14/2011 - …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The inaugural 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 …
Martin Katz Professor and Former Dean, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Pundits are drawn to extremes. Perhaps that is simply the nature of things. But in the debate over the future of legal education, espousing extremes hinders the discussion. …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director This opinion piece reviews the Citizens United v. FEC decision and predicts that it will have a detrimental effect on state judicial elections. Thu, 12/08/2011 - …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The October 2011 edition of Selection Snapshots is now available. Sign up for Selection Snapshots and other IAALS newsletters here . Wed, 12/07/2011 - …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Senate Republicans filibustered for the second time an Obama judicial nominee. Only one Republican senator joined Senate Democrats in voting to end the confirmation debate, but they fell six votes short of the required …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The December 2011 edition of Selection Snapshots is now available. Sign up for Selection Snapshots and other IAALS newsletters here. Tue, 12/06/2011 - …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The American Bar Association's Legal Education Section has approved changes to what is required of law schools when reporting job placement information. The changes will "expand the level of detail of graduate …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The interest in reforming the graduate level education experience is not unique to law. The Economist reports that Harvard Business School is experimenting with a new curriculum, "FIELD" (Field Immersion Experiences for …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The commission on judicial conduct recommended that a New York City civil court judge be admonished for circulating misleading materials in her 2006 campaign. Admonishment is the least severe punishment for judicial …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The commission on judicial qualifications admonished a judge for an “injudicious” flyer used in her 2010 campaign. According to the commission, the flyer “likely gave the impression…that the judge’s rulings could be …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Following this decision , the judicial selection commission revised its rules to allow for public disclosure of nominees. The commission recently announced the names of six nominees sent to Chief Justice Recktenwald for …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director President Obama’s efforts to fill judicial vacancies have been complicated by the American Bar Association’s ratings of potential nominees. The ABA’s judicial vetting committee has rated 14 of 185 potential nominees as …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The governor appointed Beth Robinson to the supreme court. She is the first openly gay justice to serve on the court. Fri, 12/02/2011 - …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Former chief justice Roy Moore, known to many as the “Ten Commandments judge,” announced plans to run for chief justice in 2012. Moore was removed from the court in 2003 for defying a federal judge’s order to remove a …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Be sure to look for Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers when the ABA Journal hits your mailbox this month (or take a sneak peek here ). The article about our initiative notes the good timing of our launch (is there anyone …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Paul Lippe, the CEO of Legal OnRamp, weighs in on the ongoing conversation about legal education reform: But I see the issue differently. It is not that law school is incomplete in training lawyers—which by any …
Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Third Branch , the blog of the United States Courts, discussed the background and objectives of the pilot project in the Southern District of New York. Thu, 12/01/2011 - …
