The University of St. Thomas Law Journal held its fall symposium, The Lawyers Role and Professional Formation, today, Sept. 23, 2011.
At a time of wrenching change in the legal profession, there is a pressing need to step back and ask foundational questions about the nature of the lawyers role in society and how that role should shape the way we educate and form lawyers. The symposium gathers many of the leading scholars who are working to help clarify our understanding of the lawyers work and to chart the future course of legal education. Often the more theoretical conversations about the nature of the lawyers role proceed separately from the more practical conversations about the future course of legal education. This symposium brings both conversations together in what promises to be an energized and productive new dialogue. This is a Medtronic Business and Law Roundtable and a Law Journal Symposium cosponsored by the Holloran Center.
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