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A Revolution that Shouldn't Offend Anybody: A Swiss Army Knife to Help Courts and Parties
A Revolution that Shouldn't Offend Anybody: A Swiss Army Knife to Help Courts and Parties
Special masters can provide adjunct services to free up time for judges and court administrators—which has become crucial in the wake of the pandemic. But most people have very little experience with special masters or understanding of what they do. Think “Swiss army knife.”
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Indiana Takes Steps to Improve Family Justice, Adopts 13 Principles for Reform
Indiana Takes Steps to Improve Family Justice, Adopts 13 Principles for Reform
In October, the Indiana Supreme Court published the Family Law Taskforce's final recommendations on how to make courts more efficient, less expensive, and easier to navigate in family law matters, with an emphasis in problem-solving, triage, training and stakeholder partnerships, and technology.
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To See Clearly: The Mission of Defining Lawyer Competence and Revitalizing the Legal Profession
To See Clearly: The Mission of Defining Lawyer Competence and Revitalizing the Legal Profession
Lawyer development is a single continuum that starts even before the first day of law school, and continues past the point when a lawyer has become an independent, confident, and proficient professional. Until we recognize this fact, we will continue to struggle to develop lawyers properly.
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Process Matters in Legal Regulation Reform
Process Matters in Legal Regulation Reform
We’re researchers who study legal services regulation and access to the civil justice system. We’ve been thrilled to watch groundbreaking announcements from the West ignite a wide-ranging national debate about how best to regulate legal training, services, and businesses—and we’ve been paying special attention to the role people who are not lawyers are playing in the process of legal re-regulation.
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The IAALS Effect on Hiring at Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
The IAALS Effect on Hiring at Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
At Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell, we’ve been fortunate to have a front-row seat to the outcomes and transformation that IAALS has achieved through Foundations for Practice. We collaborated with IAALS to survey our partners on the characteristics that they viewed as most essential for new associates to be successful at WTO, and the outcomes for retention and diversity have been exciting and encouraging.
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Putting Students at the Center of Modern Legal Education
Putting Students at the Center of Modern Legal Education
As I’ve learned from many years practicing and advocating for innovative design changes in legal education, teaching online does not and should not involve doing what professors have always done—lecturing, leading discussions, and delivering exams—just through internet-enabled platforms. Instead, law professors should implement design principles to their courses for delivery in any modality: classroom, online, or blended.
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Americans Know What They Want in Their State Judges. Can They Agree How to Achieve It?
Americans Know What They Want in Their State Judges. Can They Agree How to Achieve It?
In a recent national survey asking about the importance of 12 characteristics of judges, survey respondents indicated that the public prizes a judge's professional qualities above all others, including political qualities—preferences that have obvious relevance for methods of judicial selection.
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Back to the Future: Civil Case Management
Back to the Future: Civil Case Management
Civil jury trials have been few since the pandemic began. Cases stalled and slowed, phone conferences and Zoom replaced in-person hearings, and deadlines were extended. How did courts handle the tension between civil rules and procedure on the one hand, and the fundamental right to a jury trial on the other? And, what will stick?
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Federal Pro Se Clinic in Colorado Helps the Public Navigate Our Federal Courts
Federal Pro Se Clinic in Colorado Helps the Public Navigate Our Federal Courts
Since 2018, the Colorado Bar Association Federal Pro Se Clinic has been helping people navigate the overwhelming process of filing and pursuing a lawsuit in federal court without a lawyer. Use of the clinic has increased substantially in the time it has been in operation, and all signs point to increasing demand for pro se assistance. 
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The Pandemic and the Justice for All Projects
The Pandemic and the Justice for All Projects
The pandemic has affected our civil justice system in many ways, yet perhaps the most important role access to justice entities can play in the near future is to advocate for the retention of remote access systems for court appearances as well as for the delivery of legal and self-help services.
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