This session will explore the present state of affairs concerning meaningful access to justice in the United States. How, if at all, do or can changes in the nature of legal practice affect the provision and quality of legal service provided to those of modest means, those who are unpopular, and those who have found it difficult to obtain effective legal representation for any number of other reasons? How are access to justice issues implicated by recent political attacks on lawyers' representation of particular kinds of clients, such as law firms that have undertaken to represent terrorism suspects, or law school clinics that have undertaken client representations that conflict with powerful political or business interests? This session will explore these and other access to justice issues, drawing on the perspectives of experts with widely disparate vantage points on these questions.