Never during the course of my life and career as a lawyer have I felt that there was more urgency for lawyers to step up and lead than there is today. Never have the ideals that we define as ours—truth, justice, fairness, rule of law—been more threatened, yet simultaneously more urgent. And rarely have I been prouder of my profession of first responders, running to airports and borders to defend those in harm’s way and rushing to law libraries and courtrooms to protect the Constitution and the important cornerstone of our democracy—that we are, as John Adams described, a “government of laws, and not of men.”