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This week, I’m pleased to welcome back occasional contributor Dan Currell, who in today’s feature post reviews the recently published book, The Trust Revolution, by M. Todd Henderson and Salen Churi. See Post 130.

Dan’s return provides an opportunity to explain his mysterious title (Former Managing Director, AdvanceLaw) in the right side bar.  Dan’s current title is Senior Advisor in the Office of Finance and Operations at the U.S. Department of Education.  But to post that title would arguably require a clarification that Dan’s views are his own and not necessarily those of the current Administration or the Department of Education (in the unlikely event either has views on legal innovation). 
Continue Reading Dan Currell’s insightful views are his own (129)

Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession
Benjamin H. Barton, Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Tennessee-Knoxville College of Law.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-020556-0.

The laws of supply and demand have finally caught up with the modern U.S. legal profession,