re: MT Attorneys -- how do you stay current/ahead in your field?

Just MO - you get to a point (or should) after 4 or 5 years where you have a very good base knowledge of the area(s) you practice. This is gained through practice, CLEs and reading. I go to a CLE for the two subject areas that make up the majority of my practice every year where it is purely an update of new statutory law and new case law. The other area is prone to new wholesale regulations every so often so that will spur me to go to a specific CLE covering those new regs after reading what I can about them.

I also have a couple of lawyers in each area that I can call upon that have been doing it for decades longer than I have. Their willingness to take my call, which happens less and less over the years for knowledge and more for shooting the bull, is invaluable.