to my right is for backup kourlis -- rebecca kourlis who spent more than a decade on

to my right is rebecca kourlis who spent more than a decade on the colorado supreme court. she left there perhaps ten or 11 years ago to be the founding director of the institute for the advancement of the american legal system which does all sorts of research and programmatic work on the improvement of courts and the improvements of legal education and of the legal profession. and then professor william henderson certainly and that of the circuit if there ever was one. after his legal education at the university of chicago became a clerk at the seventh circuit but happily has spent his recent career at the indiana university maurer school of law, and i say there's nobody he was done more intriguing work about the future of our profession than bill and becky. i'm going to begin with the words of setting the stage. there are many things about modern legal education that we as lawyers know a little about but not necessarily know about in detail, and they provide considerable foundation for evaluating the current state of law schools and, both now and in the future. now, you c

to my right is for backup kourlis -- rebecca kourlis who spent more than a decade on the colorado supreme court. she left there perhaps 10 or 11 years ago to be the founding director of the institute for the advancement of the american legal system. she does all sorts of research and programmatic work on the improvement of the court and the improvements of legal education in the legal profession. and then, profess them -- professor william henderson, after his legal education at the university of chicago became a clerk at the seventh circuit, but happily has spent his recent career at the indiana university school of law and i'd say there's nobody who's done more intriguing work about the future of our profession than bill and becky kourlis. i will begin by setting the stage. there are many things about moderate legal education that we as lawyers know a little about, but not necessarily know about in detail. they provide considerable foundation for evaluating the current state of law schools both now and in the future. now, you could actually describe recent developments by using just a w