I was at yet another symposium on the future of law schools and the practice of law the other day. The universal response from most participants seemed to be that while no one thought we would cease to be a relevant and viable part of the social and commercial fabric of our society, in years to come, things may be very, very different. And maybe that will be a good thing.
In a pleasant counterpoint to many of the high-profile nay-sayers and doomsday predictors (“The End of Lawyers,” “Don’t go to Law School Unless,” “The Law School Scam”), University of Tennessee law professor Ben Barton has just published a book, “Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession,” which, while acknowledging that some things are pretty bad right now, predicts that the practice and the public are going to benefit from the present upheaval, as we reinvent the practice of law and the delivery of legal services.
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