Friday, October 22, 2021
“The Very Extraordinary Dr C Raj Kumar,” Education World Magazine | October 2021 David Wilkins was quoted in the recent cover story in Education World magazine on the founding of Jindal Global Law School and O.P. Jindal Global University by Dr. Raj Kumar, who graduated from Harvard Law School with an LLM. Read the full […]
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
The Center on the Legal Profession welcomed advisory board member and president of Microsoft Brad Smith to its offices on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. David B. Wilkins, CLP Faculty Director, showed Smith how both CLP and Harvard Law School Executive Education (HLSEE) have been using the 10 Microsoft Surface Hubs and over 75 Surface Pros […]
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Biden nominates longtime allies for 3 ambassadorships By Myah Ward, Politico | Sept. 22, 2021 “Biden nominated Erik Ramanathan to serve as ambassador to Sweden. Ramanathan is chair of the board of Heluna Health, a national public health nonprofit. He was previously executive director of the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. He […]
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
CLP Advisory Board Member Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, has been approved by the company’s board as vice-chair. Smith, who was formerly the general counsel, is one a growing number of chief legal officers taking on increasingly diverse and expansive roles at companies; The Practice reported on this trend for its July/August 2021 issue. Read […]
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
The Man Behind Critical Race Theory By Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker | Sept. 13, 2021 CLP Faculty Fellow David Trubek mentioned in recent article about Derrick Bell, the father of critical race theory, by Jelani Cobb. Cobb mentions that Trubek was a central figure in the critical legal studies movement. Read the full article […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
‘A very attractive offering’ – the Big Four’s growing legal services reach By Victoria Basham | The Global Legal Post, Sept. 6, 2021 CLP Faculty Director David Wilkins cited in new report from LexisNexis about how the Big Four accounting firms have scaled to include legal services. The Global Legal Post quotes Wilkins in an article about […]
Friday, August 27, 2021
Jones Day High Court Clerks Easily Make Partner (Or Maybe Not) By Roy Strom, Bloomberg Law | Aug. 26, 2021 Roy Strom cited CLP Faculty Director David Wilkins and G. Mitu Gulati’s 1998 article, “Reconceiving the Tournament of Lawyers: Tracking, Seeding, and Information Control in the Internal Labor Markets of Elite Law Firms,” “about the […]
Sunday, July 25, 2021
“If law firms don’t, others will:” Prof David B Wilkins speaks on the need to innovate, future of Corporate Legal Services post-COVID and more By Shagun Suryam, Bar & Bench | July 25, 2021, 2:35 AM Professor David B Wilkins delivered a talk on Friday, July 23 , in which he discussed challenges facing the legal market […]
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Is Microsoft’s Legal Shake-Up A Sign Of Things To Come? By Sue Reisinger | July 2, 2021, 4:19 PM EDT “The untraditional memo released this week by Microsoft Corp. President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith outlining changes in the company’s law department has stirred questions of what the role of in-house counsel should be […]
Friday, April 16, 2021
CLP Faculty Director quoted in recent Law.com piece on EY-Center research into law department operations. “CEOs are frustrated. They seek greater transparency from their legal departments to understand and control their risk management programs. General counsel are frustrated in turn: they say they do not have the technology or data to do so, according to […]