The trend to the left in Europe has posed the question of the future of law and the lawyer. In its mildest form the trend has meant the nationalization of basic industries and means of communication. In its more extensive form it has meant the division of large estates among the peasantry and the nationalization of large scale production, transportation and financial agencies. in the Soviet Union the progression has gone well beyond the experience of the iest of the world, so that land, financial agencies, and all means of production of anything but the smallest size have been nationalized. With the experience of the Russian Revolution in their minds, many Americans have reached the conclusion that as a socialist system of economy is approached, the role of the lawyer diminishes in importance until he is without anything to do, if not castigated and imprisoned. Such is not the case. If this were so, it is unlikely that eminent British barristers and solicitors. would have united years ago in the Haldane Society' with a program of socialism as their goal. Even the experience of the Soviet Union has set at rest any anticipation that the days of the lawyer are numbered as socialism is approached.