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Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director DENVER, CO – The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at the University of Denver today applauds the Colorado Supreme Court for approving the Colorado Civil Access Pilot Project. This …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The Federal Circuit Advisory Council unanimously voted to adopt the proposed "Model Order on E-Discovery in Patent Cases." The model would limits on electronic discovery. Click here to read the article. Thu, 11/10/2011 …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director As criminal cases crowd already crowded dockets, civil litigants see resolutions to their disputes delayed indefinitely. Click here to read the article. Thu, 11/10/2011 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to raise the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 75. Click here to read the article. Thu, 11/10/2011 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Justice Eakin was one of six appellate judges who retained their seats in the November elections. Click here to read the article. Thu, 11/10/2011 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director On Election Day in New York, Colby Hamilton writes about the political nature of judicial elections in New York, where Queens Assistant District Attorney Sarah Steiner said, "Judgeships are rewards mostly for loyal …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Substantial contributions from trial lawyers to an intermediate appellate court candidate became an issue in the campaign. Republicans accused the Democratic recipient of the contributions of “putting justice for sale” …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The judicial nominating commission held public interviews of the eighteen applicants for a court of appeals vacancy. Wed, 11/09/2011 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Responding to questions from lawmakers regarding his record of judicial appointments, Governor Scott said that he will not appoint judges who think differently from him in order to achieve diversity. Of the thirty-six …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Educating Lawyers , often referred to in legal circles as the “Carnegie Report,” has found its way into a number of articles and blog posts lately. Just Monday, it was cited by Professor Benjamin Spencer of Washington …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Supreme court justice Michael Eakin raised more than $526,000 for his retention campaign. Less than a week before the election, no organized opposition had arisen, but Eakin wanted to be prepared for a late challenge. …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Seven in ten respondents to a recent poll favored or strongly favored adopting campaign contribution limits for judicial races. Just over half supported public financing of judicial elections. Tue, 11/08/2011 - …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director October was a record-setting month for Senate confirmation of federal judicial nominees. The fifteen confirmed judges included two appellate court and thirteen district court nominees. Approximately eighty-five federal …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Proposals to move to merit selection for appellate judges are under consideration in both the house and senate. Supporters of the proposals believe that judges should be selected based on qualifications rather than name …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Professor Benjamin Spencer of Washington and Lee School of Law wrote a guest post in the Washington Post, arguing that bringing the Carnegie model to law school is far preferable to the deregulation of the profession . …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director According to the author, 12% of Canadian law school graduates are currently unable to secure an articling position. In light of this, the article urges Canadian law schools to look to legal education reform efforts in …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Larry Ribstein comments on changes in corporate legal services, which find companies first doing away with the law firms as middle men and the then restructuring internal legal teams and “embedding” lawyers throughout …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director Two constitutional amendments have been proposed to move away from merit selection for appellate judges, a statutory process that sunsets in 2012. But since the constitution cannot be amended until 2014, the state bar …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director The late Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, who served on the O'Connor Advisory Committee and was a recipient of the Transparent Courthouse® Award, is now being honored by the Ohio Supreme Court, which is naming the Ohio …

Alli Gerkman Former Senior Director A second supreme court justice announced plans to not seek reelection when his term expires in 2012. Chief Justice Paul De Muniz announced his retirement intentions in October. Fri, 11/04/2011 - …