Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch advised the members of the Duke Law Class of 2017 to use a simple question as a guiding principle in their legal careers: “What is my responsibility to those who I may never know?”

Addressing the graduates at their hooding ceremony May 13 in Cameron Indoor Stadium, Lynch said that filtering their work through that prism will clarify “the many ways the law is ripe for growth and change, and the many ways you can be that change.”

What catapults a case into the media spotlight? Who is responsible for focusing media and public attention on a particular case? Once a case gains high-profile status, what are the professional and ethical roles and responsibilities of members of the media, the bar, and the institutions involved? How do media balance their First Amendment right to watch over the operation of government with the rights of the accused?