The Practice Magazine

Our bi-monthly magazine showcases the latest academic research on the legal profession. Each issue explores a specific theme and features the latest scholarship and original analysis. Written for busy practitioners and those interested in the global legal profession.

Lawyers in Health Care

Current issue January/February 2026

Legal and medical teams have to cross substantial professional divisions when they collaborate, but working together across such divisions offers substantial benefits.

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January/February 2026

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Introducing the January 2026 Issue

Collaboration Comparative Professions Culture Regulation Talent

Lawyers must frequently become experts in new fields, but working in legal in health care means an additional burden and opportunity—bridging the gap between law, medicine, and patient care in a highly regulated and fast-changing environment.

From the Editors

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Building a Home for Health Law

I. Glenn Cohen Carmel Shachar Susannah Baruch

Collaboration Comparative Professions Career paths Law schools

As the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics celebrates its 20th year, we ask three scholars central to it formation and impact to reflect on where the Center started and the field its helped create.

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Partnering on Patient Advocacy

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Formal partnerships between hospitals and legal aid groups or law school clinics—called medical-legal partnerships (MLP)—help both professions provide better care and advocacy for vulnerable populations.

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Leading Legal in Health Care

General counsel In-house departments Leadership Regulation Risk and compliance

Two general counsel at major health care institutions explain how they balance the mission of providing life-saving care while managing risk and liability in an uncertain regulatory atmosphere.

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Unseen Constraints in Public Health Decision-Making

Comparative Professions Culture Career paths Leadership Law schools

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who served as the 19th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), learned early in her career that collaborating with lawyers could prove fruitful, especially in her policy advocacy around HIV. But, "we don’t know how to talk to one another," she says. She speaks to David B. Wilkins, CLP faculty director, about how we might work together.

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