The ABA has filed for partial summary judgment (brief here) in its lawsuit (complaint here) against the FTC for regulating lawyers as "creditors." The ABA argues that the FTC exceeded its Congressional mandate on this issue. This type of federal regulatory encroachment on the legal profession will be increasingly common place -- as was detailed in John Leubsdorf's article. (nod to AmLaw Daily)
UPDATE: Laurel Terry's recent article, The Future Regulation of the Legal Profession: The Impact of Treating the Legal Profession as Service Providers, is a nice look forward at how the federal government's regulatory agencies (and foreign governments) will view the US legal profession.