Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Professor Laura Empson, of London’s Cass Business School and Senior Research Fellow of the Center on the Legal Profession, hears from current and former leaders in elite professional firms and financial institutions who pull back the curtain on a secretive world which tens of thousands of bright, eager graduates apply to join every year in the […]
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
The Center on the Legal Profession’s research on the rise of the big 4 accounting firms was cited in a recent article in the ABA Journal. The piece asks if major law firms should be worried about increasing competition from the big four accounting firms (Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCooper, Deloitte, KPMG) who have made strong […]
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
The groundbreaking Operationalizing Innovation colloquium held by the Center on the Legal Profession at Google’s Mountain View campus in June is the featured faculty scholarship story on Harvard Law Today. An outgrowth of the Center’s pioneering research on innovation and disruption in the legal space, the colloquium sought to begin a robust discussion on some […]
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
A recent interview between Prof. David B. Wilkins and Dean of Duke University Medical School, Mary E. Klotman, M.D.- originally featured in the Center’s digital magazine The Practice – was picked up and featured on Harvard Law Today. In the course of their conversation, Prof. Wilkins and Dean Klotman discuss the similarity and differences between […]
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Prof. David B. Wilkins joined Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court at Adobe HQ in San Francisco on June 12th to discuss diversity in the legal profession. The event, After the JD: Racial Diversity in the Law, gave the audience an opportunity to look at data collected by Justice Liu and Prof. […]
Thursday, May 17, 2018
CLP Faculty Director, Prof. David Wilkins, is the guest on the most recent episode of the Protege Podcast to talk about strategies for effective diversity and inclusion programs. In this episode Prof. Wilkins talks about the state of diversity in the legal profession, the myth of the pipeline problem, and provides some action items […]
Monday, April 30, 2018
In the first of a two part interview with Thomson Reuters in their Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color Initiative, CLP’s Executive Director Derek Davis provided sage wisdom to attorneys of color, pulling from his decades of experience in the legal profession. Davis reflects on his law school and early career experiences and the […]
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Prof. David B. Wilkins recently participated in a panel on “Innovation, AI and the Law” here at Harvard Law School as part of the annual HLS Brazilian Symposium. Prof. Wilkins was joined on the panel by James Klotz, Secretary General of the IBA and a partner at Miller Thomson LLP, and Ian McDougall, Executive Vice-President […]
Monday, April 2, 2018
Prof. David B. Wilkins and Dr. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio recently led a webinar for Harvard Law School Alumni entitled Advancing Talent Across Organizations: Small Nudges, Big Strides which is now available to view online. In this presentation, Prof. Wilkins presents research findings outlining what the new state of diversity looks like in professional organizations. That data is complemented […]
Monday, February 19, 2018
In a recently published blog post, CLP Resident Fellow John Bliss discusses how empirical legal research can address a major finding from the 2007 Carnegie Report on legal education, specifically that U.S. law schools are not giving their students enough training around professional identity and purpose. Bliss uses findings from his PhD research on the subject […]