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.

Teams and Power

Current issue January/February 2025

All lawyering involves teams. Who is on the team—and where they're ranked—tells us something about power in the legal profession.

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January/February 2025

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Introducing the January 2025 Issue

Collaboration DEI Gender Talent

In 2015, we released an issue of The Practice focused on teamwork and collaboration and how working together benefits both the individual and the organization. In this issue, we return to teams, but this time looking at the relationship between teams and power.

From the Editors

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Law Firm Deal Teams

Tracey E. George Mitu Gulati Albert H. Yoon

Business of law DEI Gender Law firms

What do law firm deal teams reveal about the organizational dynamics that affect women’s opportunities and outcomes in the legal profession? An analysis of over 10,000 deals and more than 50,000 attorneys for the period 2013–2023 reveals evidence that women’s gains may be sustainable even as employers retract DEI interventions.

Lead Article

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Counsel for the Collective

Collaboration Leadership Law firms Strategy

All litigation is teamwork. But multidistrict litigation (MDL), where individual mass tort cases are deemed similar enough to be combined for pretrial discovery and fact-finding, presents new opportunities and challenges for coordinating and crafting a team. Once lawsuits are combined, which lawyers are elevated to lead, and why? How is power distributed between the plaintiffs and the defendants?

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Evolving Goals

Career paths General counsel Gender In-house departments

After years of playing softball and working in baseball, Kim Miner takes on the role of inaugural general counsel and chief of staff for Boston Unity Soccer Partners, the group bringing a National Women’s Soccer League team to Boston in 2026.

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Great Teammates Make Great Teams

Collaboration Culture Students Talent Well-Being

How do sports teams honor the diversity of their players while working together to win? Tommy Amaker, coach of the Harvard men's basketball team, speaks with David B. Wilkins, faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession, about building student athletes for success.

Speaker’s Corner