Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Part I Many of the largest and most profitable firms today have been built on the backs of entrepreneurial lawyers who prospered within a live-and-let-live culture that rewarded them handsomely for winning top client business. Those lawyers—often thriving on a sort of maverick persona—served as sole relationship partners for their clients, which typically accounted for […]
Friday, March 8, 2019
Phenomenal Woman – Sandie Okoro. When Maya Angelou Wrote “Phenomenal Woman,” She Had Sandie in Mind “What is the point of an important job if you don’t do important work….” – Sandie Okoro On April 18, Sandie Okoro, the General Counsel and Senior Vice President of the World Bank will engage in a fireside chat […]
Monday, December 10, 2018
The inaugural Harvard Legal Technology Symposium – held November 5-9 on the Harvard Law School Campus – was recently featured on Harvard Law Today. The Symposium was spearheaded by the Harvard Association of Law and Business, and the Center on the Legal Profession was one of a number of collaborating groups that helped to put […]
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 […]