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1. Curricular Innovation

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   Objectives: Support legal educators and law schools that are taking risks and innovating to improve legal education for the profession, for legal consumers, and for society. Collect and develop better tools for assessing programs of legal education.

   Through online resources, annual conferences, and the first major evaluation of a non-traditional model of legal education, we developed a broad... MORE

2. August 2020 Unlocking Legal Regulation Newsletter

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   IAALS has launched a monthly newsletter to keep our supporters and partners up to date on not only IAALS’ efforts, but also on the extraordinary efforts underway across the country to change the way legal services are delivered. Click here to sign up.

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3. Unbundled Legal Services in the New Normal

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   Sessions were held each day from 12–3 p.m. MDT. 

   IAALS, The Chicago Bar Foundation, the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, and the Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) hosted a three-day virtual educational event that focused on the major hows and whys of supporting and implementing the practice of unbundled legal services both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Se... MORE

4. Unbundling Legal Services: A Guide for Lawyers

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   The use of unbundled legal services is growing rapidly. An increasing number of jurisdictions explicitly allow unbundling and a growing number of attorneys are offering the service. Yet many attorneys remain unaware of its availability. As this method of legal services delivery expands, courts, commentators, and bar associations have created numerous excellent resources on the topic, including readily available websit... MORE

5. Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice

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   One of the major themes that emerged from IAALS' research in partnership with the ACTL was that our civil justice system is indeed plagued with cost and delay, making the system inaccessible for many and inefficient for all. In 2009, IAALS and the Task Force jointly published a Final Report, whic... MORE

6. Unbundling Legal Services: A Toolkit for Court Leadership

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   Unbundled legal services, in which a client hires an attorney for agreed-upon discrete tasks, is a partial solution to the access to justice problem in our nation’s courts, and has become increasingly used and accepted in the last several decades. Although unbundled legal services provide more flexibility to a litigant, and is usually far less costly than full service representation, too few attorneys ... MORE

7. Accelerating Competency: Assessment in Legal Education

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   Traditional notions of assessment in legal education have limited our capacity to truly measure whether law students are receiving the education and training they need to enter the ... MORE

8. Family Justice Initiative

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   Objectives: To develop guidelines and best practices for domestic relations case processing, for the purpose of making family courts less adversarial, more efficient—particularly for those individuals who use the courts without the help of an attorney—and more responsive to the needs of the families involved in litigation. To support implementation of the

9. How do I implement it into my practice?

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   What should I consider before I take on a limited representation case? Is every case suitable for unbundled legal services? If not, how do I tell which cases are or are not? Do I need to screen potential clients? Must the agreement I have reached with my client regarding the scope of representat... MORE

10. Public Trust and Confidence

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    Objectives: Conduct exploratory research to facilitate a deeper understanding of how the public views the justice system and what drives public perceptions and attitudes. Identify opportunities for additional research and advocacy that can help legal system stakeholders re-earn the trust and confidence of the public. Curate outside perspectives from legal system experts to explore unique facets of the issue of publi... MORE