For the legal profession to fulfill its mission, it must be in sync with the times; it must be in lockstep with the directional forces propelling its environment and global community toward progress and modernity.

Recent events have brought to the fore the importance of the rule of law and the lawyers who stand for it. In the same inspirational moment, those of us who hold the power of purse or influence in our profession must use it to nudge, push, and pull our legal ecosystem forward in order to meet twin moments of our time: the ramifications of a virus upending the way we work, and the reckoning with a call for racial justice that highlights the inadequacy of our own diversity efforts.