I was asked to deliver some thoughts after dinner at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s environmental and energy law section. The dinner occurs on the evening between the two days of the annual Environmental Law Forum. What follows is the substance of those remarks.

Each day we all think hard about what is coming in our matters and we strategize how to do better for our clients. Occasionally—and the annual Environmental Law Forum is one of those occasions—we take a somewhat longer view. We consider what is likely to happen in our practice area over the following year or two, and we try to prepare ourselves to respond to clients on the new or changing questions that will appear in that time.