Llewellyn’s dissatisfaction with legal education in 1935 is palpable in this talk. What strikes me is how many of his indictments of and challenges to legal education I still find valid today.

We don’t know what the future will look like, but we know for sure is that AI will radically change information processing, and therefore lawyering. What will the role of the lawyer be when my students are my age? There’s no way to know - but there is a way to prepare.

a year doesn’t actually have exactly 365 days in it. It’s a convention we’ve agreed upon for our mutual convenience. Conventions are only valuable until they’re not valuable, and every fourth year we get reminded of that. Maybe we should remind ourselves more often.

This weekend I’ve been obsessed with The Candy House, the latest book by Jennifer Egan. Egan has a knack for peering into the not-too-distant future and showing you a world that has been altered by technology. Her riffs are plausible but not inevitable, which is what makes them so fascinating, compelling, and disturbing.

Celebrating the holiday weekend with that great baseball disruption sensation, the Savannah Bananas

Welcome! In this blog series, I’ll share 365 reflections on lawyering in a time of social change - one each day for the next 365 days. Why disruption? Because that’s the theme of the coming year.