The necessity to be more business-oriented has affected our professionalism. We also view each other differently. There has been a loss of civility and trust. There are other changes which you could enumerate. However, the one common theme that I encounter is the uneasiness each of us has about change and the pace of that change.
Politicians criticize lawyers openly.
Our system of justice is under attack. There has been a steady and unremitting attack on the jury system. The adversarial system is being diluted by arbitration and mediation, natural responses to some of the unsolved problems encountered with long and costly litigation. The computer and the advent of legal advertising have had profound impacts on lawyering. The common loyalty that we lawyers once felt to the bar and to one another has diminished.