There’s No Time Like the Present for Some Optimism about the Future

Benjamin H. Barton, Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession (forthcoming 2015).

Amy Salyzyn

“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
    –Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel

The legal profession is often criticized as disinterested, if not fearful, of innovation in the delivery of legal services. As Benjamin Barton observes in the introductory chapter of his forthcoming book, Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession: “Law may have changed less […]