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67 Hastings L.J. [i] (2015-2016)

handle is hein.journals/hastlj67 and id is 1 raw text is: A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF It is a dynamic time for the legal profession. Law firms, big and small, are innovating the way they run their businesses and deliver their services, resulting in positive changes for both clients and attorneys.' On the one hand, firms are increasingly placing emphasis on delivering value to clients at a faster rate and for lower fees than ever before through adjustments to the types of services they offer and the manner in which they deliver them.2 Lawyers, also, are benefitting as legal employers increasingly offer innovative approaches to schedule flexibility, discretionary billing rates, and attorney entrepreneurialism to appeal to the large market of viable legal candidates discontented with the traditional big firm model.3 On the Hastings Law Journal, we too continually fine-tune and innovate how we engage with authors and legal scholarship, support and mentor our membership, and contribute to the San Francisco and UC Hastings community to maximize the value delivered by our organization. For example, this year, the Hastings Law Journal transitioned to Scholastica to manage online article submissions to increase the ease and clarity with which we communicate with authors, and to streamline and systematize administrative processes for our editors. As a result, we aim to provide authors with a more efficient and valuable editing experience, and free up more time for editors to dedicate to thoughtful review and selection of the very best submissions in collaboration with the Hastings Law Journal Faculty Review advisors. As well, we are proud to engage with UC Hastings and the San Francisco legal community in hosting two symposia this year. The first, Advancing Equal Access to Justice: Barriers, Dilemmas, and Prospects, was hosted this fall in conjunction with UC Hastings faculty and the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession. California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye delivered the keynote address for the multi-day conference that also honored Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former Associate Justice Joseph Grodin. The Journal will publish the papers generated from the interactive panels, break-out discussion groups, and extensive empirical studies in a special issue in June 2016. Thank you in particular to Professors Mark Aaronson, Joseph Grodin, and Nancy Stuart for the i. See Joan C. Williams, Aaron Platt & Jessica Lee, Disruptive Innovation: New Models of Legal Practice, 67 HASTINGS L.J. I, 9 (2015). 2. Id. at 9 II; see also Leigh McMullan Abramson, Law Firms Are Learning: Work-Life Balance Isn't Just for Moms, ATLANTIC (Sept. 24, 2015), http:/www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2o5/09/ lawyers-work-life-balance-men/4o7oJ i/. 3. Williams, Platt & Lee, supra note i, at 12 21.

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