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77 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol'y 1 (2025)

handle is hein.journals/wajlp77 and id is 1 raw text is: NEW FRONTIERS IN ATTORNEY REGULATION: INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME II OF II Peter A. Joy* This is the second Volume of the Symposium, New Frontiers in Attorney Regulation, examining many of the challenges facing the legal profession and attorney regulation. These challenges range from demands on legal services to adapt to new technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence (generative Al or GenAI), reconsideration of what the bar examination should test and how to test for lawyer competencies and knowledge, the potential role of new nonlawyer legal services providers, and questions about various aspects of attorney regulation. Along with Volume I of this Symposium, Volume II contributes to the exploration of some of the most important issues facing the legal profession and legal education. This Volume focuses on key topics such as: the NextGen Bar Exam, evolving standards for law schools to promote attorney competence and public confidence, the role of GenAl in the practice of law and in legal education, what lawyers could learn from the corporate practice of medicine, and the perverse effects of mandatory reporting to bar authorities of ineffective assistance of counsel determinations. This Volume follows Volume I, which addressed the following important issues: certifying and regulating new legal services providers,' rethinking mandatory state bars,2 addressing perceived racial and ethnic disparities in attorney discipline,' and * Henry Hitchcock Professor ofLaw, Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Joy thanks all of the authors and all of the editors of the Washington University Journal ofLaw & Policy for making this two-volume Symposium possible. 1. See Benjamin H. Barton, The LLLT Conundrum, 76 WASH. U. J.L. & POL'Y 5 (2025); Bruce A. Green & M. Ellen Murphy, Replacing This Old House: Certifying and Regulating New Legal Services Providers, 76 WASH. U. J.L. & POL'Y 45 (2025). 2. See Leslie C. Levin, Rethinking Mandatory State Bars, 76 WASH. U. J.L. & POL'Y 123 (2025). 3. See Susan Saab Fortney & Heather Zirke, Addressing Perceived Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Attorney Discipline, 76 WASH. U. J.L. & POL'Y 163 (2025).