Transformation in the Latin American Legal Market

Firms that try to be everything to anyone end up being nothing to everyone. The real danger isn’t external competition or technological disruption. It’s the failure to define who you are, what you offer, and how you deliver value.

The pandemic, along with other transformative events like the emergence of generative AI, have called for new ways of thinking about the way we train lawyers. In this story, we speak to three individuals about how—and why—legal education is evolving in different Latin American settings.

For the last two decades, the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession has been studying the transformative role of the general counsel in the United States and around the world. In this story, we continue our examination of the role of in-house counsel from around the world by speaking with two Mexico-based lawyers who work for international companies and have responsibilities and directives covering Latin America.