Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession

Explores the critical role that American lawyers have played since the nation’s founding and what the future holds for the profession

The American legal profession faces significant challenges: the changing nature of work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic; calls for greater racial and gender justice; threats to democracy; the inaccessibility of legal services for the majority of Americans; the risk of obsolescence owing to the emergence of new technologies; and the disaffection many lawye...