Why Attend?

How does the legal profession change, and how is it changing now? This workshop is about the legal profession and its current direction. But it is also about the legal profession’s mode of change. On a fundamental level, how does the legal profession adjust to changes in culture, demographics, and economics?

The world is constantly changing and the change of millennia is perhaps a mere artificial marker. Nonetheless, this is a useful time to examine the legal profession’s adjustment to changing surroundings.

As American demographics change, how has and will the legal profession be affected? As economic realities evolve, how has and will the legal profession change? As world events threaten settled ways of life, how will the legal profession change? As all of these merge, will the legal profession’s fundamental values develop? If values have and are changing, how have those changing values been reflected in the law governing lawyers? What can we expect as we go forward? As teachers and scholars of the legal profession, what is our place? How should our teaching change? Where should our scholarship lead?

In this workshop, we will examine the ways in which the legal profession has dealt with changed surroundings in the past, we will observe how it is adjusting to current developments, and we will attempt to predict its future course. Four distinguished panels will treat the fundamentally changing circumstances within which the legal profession currently exists, how those changes are and will affect the profession’s values, how those changing values have and should affect legal developments, and how our teaching and scholarship should change to meet new challenges. Small group work between the panels will be in varied formats, providing a “something for everyone” approach to workshop participation. Small groups will explore specific topics raised on panels, analyze hypotheticals and report back their conclusions to the larger group, and follow-up on the general themes raised by the panels. Small groups will be formed and re-formed according to participants’ areas of interest.

-Planning Committee for AALS Workshop on Legal Ethics in a New Millennium
Susan D. Carle, American University
Robin Morris Collin, Willamette University
James E. Moliterno, College of William and Mary, Chair
Teresa Godwin Phelps, Notre Dame Law School
Jennifer Lorraine Rosato, Brooklyn Law School

When is this Workshop?

The workshop will begin on Sunday, June 12, with registration at 5:00 p.m., followed by two days of plenary sessions. The workshop will conclude at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14. In addition to the program sessions, a reception will be held on Sunday and Monday evenings and luncheons will be held each day.

Where is this Workshop?

The workshop sessions and sleeping accommodations will be at Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, 1201 Boulevard Rene-Levesque West, Montreal, Quebec H3B 2L7 Canada. The room rate is CAD225.00 (US$177 at the time of printing) for single or double occupancy. This rate is subject to 7% Goods and Service Tax, 7.5% Provincial Sales Tax and CAD2.00 per night Tourism Tax. To make a reservation: complete the Hotel Reservation Request and either call (514) 878-2000 (do not use the toll free reservation number) or fax the form to (514) 878-3958. The cut-off date for making a room reservation is May 23, 2005. Specify the AALS Mid-Year Meeting when making a reservation in order to receive the special rate. Please note that the cut-off date does not guarantee availability. To ensure accommodations, please make your hotel reservation early.

Child Care

Child care can be arranged through the hotel concierge. Neither the hotel nor AALS recommends these services but provides this information for your reference.