Lawyers are growing older! For each of us, this is confirmed by the mirror each morning. But lawyers are getting older in another, collective sense. The legal profession is launched on a massive demographic transformation that will have dramatic but unknown effects on the way law is practiced and the way legal services are distributed in American society. Coping with these effects will form a major part of the profession's policy agenda in the opening decades of the new century. I propose to review with you the story of how we got here and to offer some ideas about the future and the options it holds. For although the aging is inevitable, what we do with the problems and opportunities it presents is something in which we enjoy some degree of freedom-both individually and collectively.
