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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

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Studying the changing dynamics of the global legal profession. Read our digital magazine: https://clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hub/magazine/

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · yesterday

Can a law firm serve the underdog and answer to public shareholders at the same time? In 2007, Slater & Gordon became the world's first publicly held law firm, and it's still an open question if they managed to deliver. In #ThePractice: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/ethi...

Ethical Values in the Marketplace - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In the Harvard Law School case study “Slater & Gordon,” John C. Coates and Ashish Nanda, both professors at Harvard Law School, and Monet A. Brewerton look at the history of the world’s first publicly...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2d ago

When should a general counsel say "slow down"—or "stop"? Ben W. Heineman Jr., who served as General Electric's general counsel from 1987 to 2003 and is a giant in the GC field, argues that the modern GC has to be both partner and guardian to the business. clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

The Inside Counsel Revolution - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

The following is derived from Heineman’s newly published book, The Inside Councel Revolution: Resolving the Partner-Guardian Tension (Ankerwycke 2016), available now on Amazon. Over the past 30-plus y...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 5d ago

What if the place people first find a lawyer isn't a law office, but a doctor's office? That's the premise of a medical-legal partnership. For a pediatrician, the lawyer is just a referral—like a cardiologist. Read more in our issue on lawyers in health care: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/part...

Partnering on Patient Advocacy - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In 1986 the Whitman-Walker Clinic, a medical practice focused on the needs of LGBTQ individuals in Washington, D.C., hired its first in-house lawyer to help “write wills, secure disability benefits, a...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 6d ago

What does it take to train the next generation of immigration and refugee lawyers? A look back at how one immigration clinic approaches the work when the law itself is often the obstacle. Read more in our issue on immigration lawyering: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/cult...

Cultivating Creative Immigration Counsel - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In early February, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRCP) issued a new report, documenting the more than 14,000 times that immigration detention facilities had placed migrants in...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · last wk.

Why do so many students arrive at law school set on public-interest work, then sign with a large firm by the end of their first summer? John Bliss spent five years interviewing students and found the usual explanation—debt and salary—doesn't hold up. clp.law.harvard.edu/article/drif...

Drifting Law Students - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

A version of this article also appears in the UC Davis Law Review volume 51, issue 5 (June 2018), under the title “From Idealists to Hired Guns? An Empirical Analysis of ‘Public Interest Drift’ in Law...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · last wk.

How does AI change the ROI on college? In #ThePractice, understanding how different majors reveal different "value," while noting that a general U.S. liberal arts degree still buys flexibility. clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

Value to a Degree - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In the United States, few decisions put the question of value under a brighter spotlight than higher education: a six-figure investment made at age seventeen whose returns may not arrive for decades. ...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Before you buy the shiny new AI tool, is your data ready for it? DHL's Mark Smolik tells #ThePractice his AI edge came from organizing and tagging data years earlier. The lesson? Get your house in order first: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/lead...

Leading Businesspeople with Law Degrees - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

Michele D. DeStefano, a professor of law at the University of Miami, spoke with Mark Smolik, the chief legal officer at DHL Supply Chain Americas, about how to add value in the age of AI. Michele D. D...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Your legal team has adopted AI. Can you prove it's working? When 60 general counsel and legal ops leaders gathered at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, they tried to figure out just that question. Read more on adding value in the age of AI: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/movi...

Moving from Adoption to Responsible Impact - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In June 2026, 60 leading general counsel and senior legal operations leaders from companies around the United States came together at Harvard Law School to tackle a common but difficult question: How ...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2w ago

When AI can draft, research, and review, what makes a lawyer irreplaceable? Michele DeStefano argues that the lawyers who endure will have three things: character, client-centricity, and innovation. Read more in our issue on adding value in the age of AI: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/how-...

How Lawyers Can Add Value in the Age of AI - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

Drawing on 50 interviews with chief legal officers (CLOs), law firm partners, legal operations professionals, and non-lawyer corporate executives around the world, this article posits that the lawyers...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why has no large law firm ever survived bankruptcy, when Chrysler filed and kept building cars? John Morley argues in #ThePractice that firms collapse on relative, not absolute, profits—each partner's exit making the next likelier. clp.law.harvard.edu/article/why-...

Why Law Firms Collapse - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

This article is derived from a more expansive work later published in The Business Lawyer, volume 75, issue 1 (Winter 2019/2020). The full paper is also available on the Social Science Research Networ...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2w ago

How do judges learn to judge? Two judges—in the US and Brazil—told #ThePractice the same thing: the hardest lessons aren't the law but leadership, empathy, and the humility to say "I don't understand." Read more: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/lear...

Learning to Judge - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

How do judges learn to be judges—and what do they learn along the way? When they take the stand on day one, what type of preparation brought them to that point—and was it sufficient? How do experience...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Long before states began licensing paraprofessionals, Native American Tribal courts were training tribal lay advocates to practice before the court. A worthwhile read for anyone thinking about access to justice in legal deserts. Read more: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/trib...

Tribal Lay Advocates Expand Access to Justice - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In the last decade, a number of states have explored licensing paraprofessionals to provide legal advice in civil (and sometimes criminal) matters or adopting community justice worker models. But Nati...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 3w ago

What holds a law firm together when its assets walk out every evening? Regan & Rohrer put that to 250+ partners in #ThePractice: money and meaning aren't zero-sum. clp.law.harvard.edu/article/mone...

Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

This article is based on research and content published in our book, Big Law: Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2021. What holds law firms toget...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Do judges actually follow precedent? Holger Spamann, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, put it to the test. In #ThePractice, he describes experiments in which he and his co-authors gave 361 real judges from seven countries actual cases to decide, then randomized the precedents each judge saw.

Judges in the Lab - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

What factors drive judicial decisions? The determinants of judicial decisions are of obvious interest, not only to attorneys but to a wider public. In recent years, for instance, there has been much d...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cannabis law started at the margins—criminal defense lawyers, legalization advocates. Then Big Law wanted in. Eli Wald on how it's blurring the legal profession's quiet divide. In #ThePractice: clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

Cannabis Lawyers - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

This article is adapted from my article “Cannabis Law Practice” in Tulsa Law Review 60 (forthcoming 2024). Cannabis law practice, a new field emerging following the legalization of medicinal and recre...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 4w ago

What are clients actually buying when they hire a law firm? Salesforce President & CLO Sabastian V. Niles sat down with CLP Faculty Director David B. Wilkins to dig into how the legal profession leads (or lags) in the agentic AI era. Read the full conversation: clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

A Conversation with Sabastian Niles on the Legal Profession in the Agentic AI Era - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In March, Salesforce president and chief legal officer Sebastian Niles put out an open letter, How Law Firms Can Lead the Agentic AI Era — And What Clients Now Expect. He recently sat down with David ...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · last mo.

What makes a "perfect partner" at a law firm—and are firms actually rewarding it? Moray McLaren in #ThePractice on why the real challenge isn't comp math, it's accountability. clp.law.harvard.edu/article/defi...

Defining the Perfect Partner - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

Against the backdrop of uncertainty across legal services, two questions have structured my thinking in working with law firms as they review and update their approach to partner remuneration, profit ...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · last mo.

A still relevant nugget of info from a 2023 issue of #ThePractice: the cost of law school limits who can attend law school and become lawyers, which has implications for democratic ideals in the U.S. Read more 👇 clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

The Black-White Student Debt Gap Among Law School Graduates - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

The cost of postsecondary education in the United States has skyrocketed over the past several decades, with the national student debt surpassing credit card debt to reach an unprecedented $1.75 trill...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · last mo.

"Rural lawyers are declining in number, and the real question is whether the trend can be reversed," writes Hannah Haksgaard, professor at University of South Dakota Knudson Law. clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

Incentivizing Rural Practice - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

The following is an excerpt (chapter 3) from The Rural Lawyer: How to Incentivize Rural Law Practice and Help Small Communities Thrive (Cambridge University Press 2025), reprinted with permission from...

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Fordham Law School@fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · last mo.

Bruce Green, director of Fordham Law’s Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, breaks down the factors he thinks should be considered when reimagining attorney discipline in the United States. via Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession (@hlsclp.bsky.social)

Reimagining Attorney Discipline - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In 2004 the Australian state of Queensland overhauled its attorney disciplinary system, taking authority away from the bar and creating a new independent agency. Queensland is not alone; other Austral...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Our [medical-legal partnership] enables doctors and lawyers to work together with a shared vision of supporting at-risk children and families,” says Adrienne Henize, program director @cincyresearch.bsky.social's MLP. "Our patients are their clients.” clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

Partnering on Patient Advocacy - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In 1986 the Whitman-Walker Clinic, a medical practice focused on the needs of LGBTQ individuals in Washington, D.C., hired its first in-house lawyer to help “write wills, secure disability benefits, a...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The standards belonging to a professional role are not a force field protecting lawyers from moral criticism. Instead, the 'role-differentiated' morality of the legal profession itself requires a defense," writes Brad Wendel in #ThePractice. clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

Accountability, Conscience, and Dissent in the Legal Profession - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

The below is an excerpt from Canceling Lawyers: Case Studies of Accountability, Toleration, and Regret (Oxford University Press, 2024). Reprinted with permission. A Q&A with the author, Brad Wendel, f...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I would rather teach every lawyer in this state how to properly keep their trust account than ever prosecute another trust account case,” says Melissa Scott, general counsel of the Mississippi Bar. Read more in #ThePractice: clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

After the Complaint - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In 2010, after more than a decade leading the Colorado attorney disciplinary function, John Gleason was tapped to serve as independent counsel in Arizona to investigate Maricopa County attorney Andrew...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Systematic studies of disciplinary rates among court-appointed defense attorneys are rare, but the example of Maine suggests that appointed lawyers may be more likely than others to have checkered pasts." Rebecca Haw Allensworth in #ThePractice: clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

The Fallen Professional - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

The following is an excerpt from The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who is Allowed to Work and Why It Goes Wrong. When [Dr. Michael] LaPaglia got the first round of discipline on his Tennessee medica...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If the purpose of attorney discipline is to protect the public, Bruce Green, Louis Stein Chair of Law at Fordham Law, wonders, “I’m not sure the public has enough of a perception of what’s going on in the disciplinary process to actually have an opinion.” clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

Reimagining Attorney Discipline - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In 2004 the Australian state of Queensland overhauled its attorney disciplinary system, taking authority away from the bar and creating a new independent agency. Queensland is not alone; other Austral...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The purpose of the [disciplinary] system is to protect the public from lawyer misconduct,” says John Gleason, who led the regulatory office at the Colorado Supreme Court for two decades. “That’s an easy phrase to say, but to actually do it is pretty complex.” clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

After the Complaint - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

In 2010, after more than a decade leading the Colorado attorney disciplinary function, John Gleason was tapped to serve as independent counsel in Arizona to investigate Maricopa County attorney Andrew...

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Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession@hlsclp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Ask yourself whether licensing’s promise to protect the public is fulfilled by a system that doesn’t remove the most problematic providers, but rather shuffles them to the bottom of the barrel of professional practice." clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

The Fallen Professional - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession

The following is an excerpt from The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who is Allowed to Work and Why It Goes Wrong. When [Dr. Michael] LaPaglia got the first round of discipline on his Tennessee medica...

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