Monday, July 26, 2010
New York State Bar Association Task Force to Examine Legal Profession, Recommend Changes to Improve Legal Education and the Practice of Law
Incoming New York State Bar President Stephen P. Younger has appointed a 30-member task force consisting of law firm partners, law school professors, and in-house attorneys, to weigh changes in the profession brought on by the society and culture, recession and advances in technology. It will be co-chaired by Linda Addison, Fulbright & Jaworski, New York City and T. Andrew Brown, Brown & Hutchinson, Rochester. The group held its first meeting in June.
The task force will consider changes in law firm billing practices, improvements in legal education and training, work/life balance, and the application and use of new technologies, among other issues.
Younger was quoted in the New York Law Journal as saying that "2009 was the worst year in history to be a lawyer in New York."
The task force is expected to complete a draft report in early January 2011. The state bar's House of Delegates will then consider it as early as April 2011. Several leaders from the ALI-ABA Summit on Equipping Our Lawyers are members of the Task Force and, of course, many Recommendations of the Summit bear directly on the education issues the Task Force is expected to address.
The task force will consider changes in law firm billing practices, improvements in legal education and training, work/life balance, and the application and use of new technologies, among other issues.
Younger was quoted in the New York Law Journal as saying that "2009 was the worst year in history to be a lawyer in New York."
The task force is expected to complete a draft report in early January 2011. The state bar's House of Delegates will then consider it as early as April 2011. Several leaders from the ALI-ABA Summit on Equipping Our Lawyers are members of the Task Force and, of course, many Recommendations of the Summit bear directly on the education issues the Task Force is expected to address.
