These are exhilarating times if you love change.

These are terrifying times if you have difficulty accepting and dealing with change.

The legal profession is trained to look to the past to find the future.

In a fast-paced, discontinuous change environment, bar associations, law schools and law firms are lost.

Dogma and nostalgia are powerful enemies to a successful future.

In early August 1998, Charlie Robinson served as a panelist on a program at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting titled "The Ends of the Profession." Frank Feather gave a preliminary presentation where he asked the question "In a time of revolutionary change, the 'Big Question' is, of course: What does unprecedented change imply for a precedent-oriented profession?"

Most attorneys would like to believe there is an "attorney exception" for change but that belief is simply not accurate. The profession can embrace the change environment by enhancing those skills needed to compete effectively in the 21st Century.

Charlie is available for consulting on the future of the legal profession with bar associations, law schools, and law firms. He conducts workshops and lectures about the future of the legal profession.