Vermont Bar Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 Spring 2014, Vol. 40, No. 1 | Page 5

by David Fenster, Esq.

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN
Facing the Future

At the recent VBA Mid-Year Meeting,
Chief Justice Paul Reiber addressed the
meeting at lunch and outlined some changes and challenges facing the future of the
legal profession, the courts, legal education, and the practice of law, ending in a
call to action.1 Chief Justice Reiber made
the point that we are a profession in transition. The Chief outlined challenges facing current law school graduates unable
to find legal jobs. He cited data indicating
that nine months out of law school only
56% of law school graduates were able to
find work that required a law license and
that the number of