New Trends.

Two trends characterized the American legal profession in the first decades of the new century. The first involved the increasingly widespread adoption of standards to control admission to the profession, and the second concerned the lawyer's relationship with his clients. Many lawyers, like those in other fields of specialty, had grown seriously concerned with the status accorded their profession, both within their communities and before the courts in which they practiced. Their desire for greater recognition and enhanced stature led to efforts to improve and institutionalize the process of legal training, to remove it from the back offices and libraries in which the clerk traditionally labored to classrooms where the program of instruction could be formalized and the qualifications of instructors assured. Restricting access to the profession also became a popular method of raising the level of public esteem...