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1. Building a Better Bar

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   The legal profession has never had a clear, explicit understanding of the minimum competence needed to practice law and how it should be tested on the bar exam (or through other licensing approaches). In this report from our Building a Better Bar project, we have defined minimum competence and have new recommendations for how the legal licensing pr... MORE

2. Guidance on Developing Problem-Solving Approaches for Families in Court

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   Family courts operate within a larger court structure that generally reflects the traditional, adversarial approach, which can exacerbate existing tensions between partners or spouses, and, in cases involving children, can leave children caught in the crossfire of parental acrimony. The Family Justice Initiative (FJI) is calling on state courts to change the prevailing ethos for managing fam... MORE

3. Foundations: Hiring Guide

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   This guide is for employers who want to improve their hiring practices—to improve quality, retention, and diversity—based on what IAALS has learned from the Foundations for Practice project.

   To make the most of this resource, employers should use the guide in conjunction with the Hiring Toolkit at the end of the guide. This is not a list of boil... MORE

4. Preventing Whack-a-Mole Management of Consumer Debt Cases

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   Americans are drowning in debt, with an estimated $4 trillion or roughly $13,000 for every man, woman, and child in the United States—large numbers of whom struggle to repay their debts, especially debts incurred to cover routine living expenses, emergency situations, and out-of-pocket medical costs. Many then find themselves as defendants in consumer debt collection cases filed in state courts. These cas... MORE

5. Transforming Our Civil Justice System for the 21st Century: The Road to Civil Justice Reform

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   In July 2016, the Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ) and the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) endorsed 13 recommendations for improving the American civil justice system. The report and recommendations, titled Call to Action: Achieving Civil Justice for All

6. Guidelines for Creating Effective Self-Help Information

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   Self-represented litigants face a variety of challenges navigating the process without legal help. There are widespread efforts by courts around the country to assist self-represented parties, including the development of self-help materials. Not all self-help materials are created equal, though.

   The current reality in many jurisdictions is that while there is widespread access to legal self-help... MORE

7. Foundations: Instructional Design Guide

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   This instructional design guide is for educators who are interested in using what IAALS has learned from the Foundations for Practice project as a basis for learning outcomes and standards-based assessments.

   The guide uses a step-by-step approach to implement a Foundations-based instructional model in the university law classroom. The m... MORE

8. Family Law in Focus

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   This report presents the results from an analysis of data from five pilot programs instituted from 2000 to 2002 in four different Colorado courts implementing proactive case management in family law cases. The purpose of the study was not to compare the programs against one other, but rather to compare proactive case management (in a number of different forms) against the traditional “laissez faire” approach to the handling of family law ca... MORE

9. Momentum for Change: The Impact of the Colorado Civil Access Pilot Project

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   This report details IAALS' final findings on the Colorado Civil Access Pilot Project (CAPP), the state's experiment with new court procedures intended to secure the fundamental promise of our civil justice system: a just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of ... MORE

10. Listen > Learn > Lead

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    The tech industry has long known something that courts are just beginning to discover: If you want to build a better mousetrap, you need understand the user experience directly from those who use the mousetrap. Courts around the country are beginning to understand this truism and engage their users—many of whom are without a lawyer—in process reform.

    Self-represented litigants are the experts when it comes to identifying problems... MORE