We’ll have 31 prospective entrepreneurs in the class. Will one of them launch the next Scrub Daddy, for the legal profession?

more than technical mastery, I hope they take away from this class an appreciation that they are coming of age as legal professionals in an era of conceptual change unknown for at least a century.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of SEC v. Jarkesy. In that case, an otherwise routine agency finding of securities fraud will become the latest battleground in the unitary executive war.

The problem, as anyone who’s ever tried to master a hard skill knows, is that progress doesn’t compound exponentially. Some days we improve 1%. Other days, we take the same actions and improve only .01%. Sometimes we go backwards — and for what seems like forever.

When people tell me they don’t have a “thing,” what they’re usually saying is they don’t trust their thing. That’s real, that fear – and that fear is where you need to focus your attention.