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The Center for Out-of-Court Divorce, together with IAALS at the University of Denver, was honored to be a nominee for the 2017 American Bar Association Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access. As a nominee of the Brown Award, we are also in the running for BROWN SELECT, which will be presented to the nominee that gets the most votes from the general public through online voting.

Voting is open now through noon CST on Tuesday, January 10.

We hope that we may count on your vote as well as your help spreading the word!

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Last fall, IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis and Brittany Schultz, in-house counsel for Ford Motor Company, sat down with Metropolitan Corporate Counsel to discuss the recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

In the interview, Kourlis and Schultz discussed the impact of the new rules and how organizations like IAALS are helping judges and lawyers across the country put them in practice effectively and efficiently.

IAALS is honored to work with companies like Ford and other valued members of its Business Leadership Network. Member groups provide critical insight from the front lines of their legal world, which helps IAALS shape its broad-consensus recommendations.

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IAALS is pleased to welcome Dona Playton as its new Director of the Honoring Families Initiative. Dona comes to IAALS from the University of Wyoming College of Law where she was a senior lecturer as well as the Director of the Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic. Her strong background in legal services, academia, and family law make Dona a superior choice to lead HFI as we strive to provide meaningful access to the courts and to streamline the legal process for separating and divorcing families.

Natalie Knowlton, the previous Director of HFI, remains on staff at IAALS, working from her home in California on a variety of projects across all of our issues.

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Law Week Colorado published its annual Year in Review on December 26, and included two spots for IAALS projects.

Cases Without Counsel was highlighted for its focus on the experiences of self-represented litigants within the court system and recommendations for ways that courts and the legal profession can improve the process for all litigants.

Foundations for Practice also made the list for its groundbreaking Whole Lawyer and the Character Quotient report. The report analyzed data from our survey of over 24,000 lawyers about the skills, characteristics, competencies, and qualities that new lawyers need to be successful in practice.