This year’s daylong program demonstrates the positive and normative importance of starting with a socio-economic perspective when addressing law-related economic issues on behalf of clients in many contexts. Whether considering the “myth of consent,” the effect of increasing inequality on families, class-based effects of increasing inequality, or corporate theory and regulation in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the program will reveal that lawyer competence is greatly enhanced by a socio-economic understanding of the whole person in social, institutional, economic, and moral context. Although sometimes considered a “big tent” by reason of its broad application, the diversity of its adherents and their social concern, that socio-economics is better understood as a solid positive and normative foundation, in harmony with professional responsibility, for addressing law-related economic issues that arise in the teaching and practice of law. By challenging the pervasive invocation of neoclassical-wealth-maximizing analysis, by demonstrating its inadequacies, and by offering a more realistic and holistic understanding of economics behavior and phenomena, socio-economics holds promise to beneficially change the contemporary debate regarding much policy analysis. Socio-economics is a broad, interdisciplinary approach, not a political agenda; but it has proven effective in uniting people in dedicated celebration of good scholarship that does good.