Rebecca Love Kourlis

Justice Constandinos “Deno” Himonas was appointed to the Utah Supreme Court in February 2015. Prior to his appointment, he served as a trial court judge for over 10 years.

Imagine a country without courts—where the legislative and executive branches of government hold sway. Imagine that the legislative branch makes the laws, and the executive branch has an administrative system for determining both criminal and civil liability and enforcing consequences. What would change? Why would it matter?

In the May 8 Democratic primary, an incumbent justice and a county attorney won the nomination. According to campaign finance reports filed at the end of April, the winning candidates were also the biggest spenders. The two Democratic candidates will face two Republican candidates, one of whom opted for public financing, in November.

Today, Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet announced the formation of a bipartisan, 11-member advisory committee that will implement an open process to recommend highly qualified applicants to fill a vacancy on the U.S. District Court in Colorado. Rebecca Love Kourlis, Executive Director of IAALS, is a co-chair of the committee.

In December 2011, Rebecca Love Kourlis testified in a hearing on "The Costs and Burdens of Civil Discovery" before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the House Judiciary Committee. A full video of the hearing is available on the Committee's website.

In its recent litigation issue, LawWeek Colorado followed up with Gordon “Skip” Netzorg and Rebecca Love Kourlis on the first few weeks of Colorado's new Civil Access Pilot Project. At the request of the Colorado Supreme Court, IAALS is studying the effects of the pilot project.

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

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.

In a follow-up to the annual AALS meeting, LawWeek Colorado interviewed Rebecca Love Kourlis about the team Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers sent to the conference and its takeaways.

I predict that legal education in general and law schools in particular will continue to be under the microscope in 2012. Some of the criticism is appropriate, and Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers is one of the efforts designed to address that legitimate criticism. Some of it, however, is both projection and scapegoating.