The Changing Face of Legal Education: Implications for the Practice of Law and the Courts

This is the last Conference of the Sixth Circuit in the 1900\u27s. Though the Third Millennium technically does not begin until 2001, the turn of the odometer from the 1999 to 2000 leads us all to think of this as the end of a century and of a millennium. The pivotal date is yet sixth months away, but the pundits are already issuing their lists, both profound and trivial - the greatest inventions, the best books, the worst natural catastrophes, the trial of the century (of which there are at least a half dozen), the most influential thinkers, and on and on. Often there is in these lists the implicit question whether, over time, the world is becoming a better plan or is mired, perhaps permanently, in man\u27s inhumanity to man. There is, indeed, a great deal of millennial angst. For most of us in this room, the sources of that angst range from the general to the professional to the personal