My two cents:
1) The term "lawyer" remains undefined. Until we have a solid working definition of that term, we are spinning our wheels.
2) The definitions I have seen take a narrow view. E.g., they focus on the type of lawyer most familiar to the authors/participants. ... https://twitter.com/jkubicki/status/1338866548904140800

Lots of focus on the corporate law/civil law types of practitioners. Little to no discussion about the criminal lawyer (prosecutor or defender), government lawyer (esp. regulator vs litigator), etc. A lot of this goes back to #1 and the inability to define "lawyer". ...

3) Fadism. As fads arise during this transitional period, definitions tend to gravitate to the fads. The "T" lawyer is an interesting meme. But, I have not seen any serious body of research (methodologically sound, statistically valid results, etc.) supporting it. ...

4) IMHO, this lack of scientific study forms a core part of the challenge. One pundit's opinion (mine included) is as good as another pundit's opinion. Lawyers are not trained to do the type of research needed to address questions such as "modern lawyer". So we guess/...

make up stuff that sounds good but that does not have any solid underpinning. Everybody is an expert, so nobody is an expert. Asking our friends, etc. "What do you think a (modern) lawyer is?" won't get us anywhere. (not criticizing your tweet, criticizing our industry's ...

lack of commitment to answering it).
5) Be careful who you ask. The power base in the legal industry lies with those who make lots of money (as evidenced by the fact that something like 50% of the total legal market is large corporate law). For that group, ...

the answer tends to be "whatever makes the most money". That answer has guided lots of decisions in legal ed and the industry. But that ignores the much bigger question (lawyer as champion of society's justice values, to put it colloquially). This goes to bigger ...

societal issues (attitudes toward whistleblowers, role of inspector generals, roles of in-house lawyers).
6) Is it perfect vs good, or expedient vs thoughtful? I wd argue we have heavily favored the "expedient get a job" and need more focus on the thoughtful.
cc: @profmadison