OLC memos and lawyering within the Bush administration relating to torture.
Lawyers for the detainees fight on, despite criticism (e.g., Major Mori and the "Cully Stimson affair")
The biglaw “bubble burst” of 2008-2010.
The dotcom bubble burst of 2000-01.
The bimodal first year salary bubble.
Rise of empirical studies of legal profession
Lawyer use of social websites
Federal prosecutions “over the line” (e.g., the KPMG-Stein case; the prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens, etc.)
Jenkins & Gilchrist tax opinion scandal & subsequent collapse
Recusals and non-recusals at the US Supreme Court (e.g., the "duck hunting" non-recusal)
Caperton v. Massey
Ethics 2000 Amendments
Sarbanes-Oxley and the SEC's revised regulation of lawyers
The increasingly globalized legal profession
Detainees fight for access to US courts
Lynne Stewart conviction
ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct revised
The Restatement (Third), Law Governing Lawyers
General counsel criminally charged in backdating and market collapse scandals
Dickie Scruggs
Bill Lerach
Silicosis tort cases held "fraudulent"
Clementi report in UK reforms the legal profession there
Publicly owned Australian law firm
Outsourcing of legal work
Lawyer charged in HP pretexting scandal
New York overhauls ethics rules; adopts Model Rules
California nears adoption of Model Rules
The firing of AUSA’s scandal
Civil Gideon movement
Charles Hood scandal
MR 1.10 amendment
Michael Nifong and the prosecution of the Duke lacrosse players
Holder/Thompson/McNulty memos and the DOJ's policies regarding privilege
Metadata
Pakistani lawyers fight for rule of law
Qualcomm v. Broadcom
Dreier law firm scandal
Kwame Kilpatrick scandal
Controversy surrounding “Super Lawyers”
Increasing size of the largest 200 firms.