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1. Legal Education, Get Ready for Regulatory Reform

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   Editor’s Note: This is the first blog post in a series covering the intersection of legal education and regulatory reform. Re-regulation presents an opportunity for law schools to be a part of shaping the future of the legal profession, and IAALS endeavors to engage with all critical stakeholders through our Unlocking Legal Regulat... MORE

2. Choosing State Judges: A Plan for Reform

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   State courts, where 95 percent of all cases are filed, are powerful. Their decisions can have profound effects on our rights and our lives—from whether Massachusetts officials can detain people based on a request from federal immigration authorities to whether a Michigan voter-initiated redistricting proposal could appear on the ballot.

   Judges are constitutionally obligated to apply the law impartially. But in the 38... MORE

3. Better Lawyer Licensing, Part 1: The First Three Building Blocks of Minimum Competence

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   Last October, IAALS published the groundbreaking report Building a Better Bar: The Twelve Building Blocks of Minimum Competence, containing clear, evidence-based recommendations and guideposts for imp... MORE

4. #KnowYourJudge: States Around the Country Offer Information About Judges on November Ballot

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   Public opinion polls consistently show that voters know very little about judges and judicial candidates on the ballot and wish they had more information. Around the country, judicial bra... MORE

5. New Pandemic Protocols for Litigation Will Help Struggling Businesses and Their Insurers

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   IAALS announces new project to help courts more quickly resolve the anticipated wave of business interruption insurance cases stemming from COVID-19-related closures and losses.

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6. New IAALS Guides Help Courts Create Effective Self-Help Materials, Expand ADR, and Better Manage Trials with Self-Represented Litigants

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   Our state courts are the frontlines of justice in the United States. With state trial courts handling 83 million cases in 2017 (95 percent of all U.S. cases), most people’s experience with our justice system is in state courts. It is imperative, then, that these systems serve the needs of those people.

   There is, however, much room for improvement. Many state civ... MORE

7. A Judge's Ten Commandments for Effective Case Management

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   The Hon. Jack Zouhary, federal district court judge and member of the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice, recently

8. Health and Elder Law Clinic Integrates Interdisciplinary Subjects Like No Other

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   Professors JoNel Newman and Melissa Swain teach a unique clinic at the University of Miami Law School that integrates legal, medical, and social work to help students learn better patient/client advocacy skills. Students from both the law school and medical school are cross-trained in each other's disciplines, bringing the two professions together through real and mock situations and simulat... MORE

9. Bar Examiners Task Force Releases Phase 2 Report on National Practice Analysis

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   In 2018, the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) created its Testing Task Force to conduct a three-year project that, in part, examines whether the bar exam is a valid measure of minimum competence to practice law. Phase 1 involved a series of liste... MORE

10. ABA President-Elect Patricia Refo Outlines Questions Surrounding Re-Regulation

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    On Wednesday, February 26, IAALS and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law had the privilege of hosting Patricia Refo, President-elect of the American Bar Association, for a talk and Q&A regarding the re-regulation of legal services. Th... MORE