Wondering about the fate of the billable hour?

I'm going to be at DePaul's one-day conference on Lawyers, Law Firms, and the Legal Profession: An Ethical View of the Business of Law (click here for more information). This year's conference, part of the Commercial Law League of America's Spring Meeting in Chicago (here) seems particularly timely, and the speakers are going to be quite good. More than a few of my colleagues from the American Bankruptcy Institute (here) are going to speak at the DePaul conference. After that one-day event, I'm hightailing it over to the University of Illinois for the University of Illinois & ABI's co-sponsored Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium on Debt (here). May is going to be a very, very interesting month....