Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from an address given to the Federal Bar Council by Corporation Counsel Michael A. Cardozo, who received the group’s Emory Buckner Award on Nov. 23 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City (see more photos of the event). We welcome your comments. Please contact us at [email protected].
I want to discuss an issue of pressing importance: the current and future state of the legal profession. I will point to some troubling developments, particularly the lack of opportunity for junior lawyers to gain hands-on litigation training and responsibility, and, perhaps as a consequence, the increased numbers of unsatisfied and unhappy lawyers.
