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Leading Legal in Health Care - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Leading in-house legal functions in a hospital means contending with not just the usual in-house tasks—reporting to the board, labor and employment, regulation and compliance—its all of that while als...

"Today’s health care landscape is unfortunately 'a battle for scarce resources,' says Jorge Lopez, Jr., executive vice president and general counsel at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Proud to see Cincinnati Children’s Child Health-Law Partnership (Child HeLP) highlighted. By integrating legal support into pediatric care, research shows clinicians can better address social determinants of health and advance equity for children and families.

Leading Legal in Health Care - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Leading in-house legal functions in a hospital means contending with not just the usual in-house tasks—reporting to the board, labor and employment, regulation and compliance—its all of that while als...

“My approach to being an in-house lawyer is that the lawyers must be involved in the business,” says Laura Peabody, CLO, MassGeneralBrigham. “And if your business is patient care, you have to understand the laws that apply and the culture of the care providers.”

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Partnering on Patient Advocacy - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession In 1986 the Whitman-Walker Clinic, a medical practice focused on the needs of LGBTQ individuals in Washington, D.C., hired its first in-house lawyer to help “write wills, secure disability benefits, a...

How are medical-legal partnerships moving the needle on health equity? Learn more about how lawyers and doctors can work together to address social determinants of health:

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Building a Home for Health Law - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession In 2005, Petrie Professor of Law Einer Elhauge founded the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics as “as a research program dedicated to legal analysis and interdiscipl...

Read about the origins, life, and future of the @petrieflomcenter.bsky.social and the field it's helped substantiate in #ThePractice: clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

Building a Home for Health Law - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession In 2005, Petrie Professor of Law Einer Elhauge founded the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics as “as a research program dedicated to legal analysis and interdiscipl...

Read The Practice from @hlsclp.bsky.social where I. Glenn Cohen, @cshachar.bsky.social, & @susannahb.bsky.social discuss the health law profession, the history of Petrie-Flom, and its current research areas clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

Lawyers in Health Care - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School

As conversations around the provision of health care continues to dominate, we dive into the role of lawyers. In the latest issue of #ThePractice, we ask: how do lawyers work across professional divisions in health care settings?

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Navigating Ethics as a Government Lawyer - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Growing up, Brad Weinsheimer thought it sounded inspiring if he could one day stand in court and say, “I’m Brad Weinsheimer on behalf of the United States.” He eventually did just that. When he left t...

As the senior career official in the Department of Justice, "You’re considered the conscience of the department so people trust that you’re going to make the decision that supports what the institution is supposed to be doing," says Brad Weinsheimer.

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Reimagining Innovation in Law: Emphasizing Interpersonal Skills - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School

Is legal innovation about tech or the ability to connect with other humans? Nicolás Parra Herrera explains in a new insight.

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Fighting the Corporate Capture of Law from Inside - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession If we can change the culture of the legal profession, there is no limit to what we can change in terms of the structures of society. Molly Coleman, executive director, People’s Parity Project When you...

“If we can change the culture of the legal profession, there is no limit to what we can change in terms of the structures of society,” executive director of People's Parity Project Molly Coleman says. “But cultural change is really hard.”

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Accountability, Conscience, and Dissent in the Legal Profession - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession I am endlessly interested in the uneasy fit between what we’re required to do as lawyers or permitted to do as lawyers versus what ordinarily decent human beings would do. W. Bradley Wendel, Edwin H. ...

"A lot of mistakes in professional ethics come from seeking a false zone of comfort. We as lawyers sit at the intersection of conflict and disagreement ... . It's going to be uncomfortable."

W. Bradley Wendel in #ThePractice:

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Moral Agency - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School

In #ThePractice: why should lawyers continue to think about moral philosophy? Are lawyers accountable to the public for the clients they represent? How should lawyers navigate the tension between personal morality and professional responsibility?

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Celebrating Harvard Law’s Black alumni - Harvard Law School Hundreds of graduates gathered for a three-day reunion in September to honor the achievements and legacy of Black Harvard Law graduates

“Harvard has graduated more Black lawyers than any other law school apart from Howard School of Law, graduates who have gone on to become leaders in virtually every sector of society, including as president and first lady of the United States,” said David Wilkins.

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The Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession was pleased to welcome over 750 Harvard Law School alumni and guests for the 2025 Celebration of Black Alumni on Sept. 12-14! We heard from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sherrilyn Ifill, Bryan Stevenson, and more. Can't wait for 2030!

We built an enormous tent to host the hundreds of folks joining us Sept. 12-14 at Harvard Law School for the Celebration of Black Alumni! Open to all. Learn more: HLSCBA.com

Confronting Antirural Bias - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Why should legal scholars be thinking about rural-urban difference, broadly speaking? Lisa Pruitt, Brigitte Bodenheimer Research Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law. The...

"The rural and the urban are inextricably linked. Urban people are very reliant on rural resources. It’s not just why lawyers should care ... What would happen if our rural communities dried up and blew away?" Lisa Pruitt in #ThePractice 👇

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Confronting Antirural Bias - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Why should legal scholars be thinking about rural-urban difference, broadly speaking? Lisa Pruitt, Brigitte Bodenheimer Research Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law. The...

@ucdavis.bsky.social Law Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke to The Practice, a magazine published by @hlsclp.bsky.social for its August issue about legal deserts, or rural areas with too few lawyers and judges to meet demand.

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Incentivizing Rural Practice - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School

"Rural lawyers are declining in number, and the real question is whether the trend can be reversed," writes Hannah Haksgaard in the new issue of The Practice. After ten years of the South Dakota Rural Attorney Recruitment Program, Haksgaard reviews the data. clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...

YouTube video by HLS CLP We're building a tent! Celebration of Black Alumni @ Harvard Law School (Sept. 12-14, 2025)

We're building an ENORMOUS tent! Come check it out Sept. 12-14 at the Celebration of Black Alumni at Harvard Law School. All are welcome! Register and learn more: HLSCBA.com

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Legal Deserts - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School

The August 2025 edition of The Practice is live! In this issue, we dive into legal deserts—a problem symptomatic of a larger issue of rural brain drain. Read more 👇

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The Salaried Partner Dilemma: Part II - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School

Today, more law firms are unveiling hybrid partnership structures with "salaried partner" tiers, says Moray McLaren. What effect does that have on the law firm?

Read Part II in "The Salaried Partner Dilemma."

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The Salaried Partner Dilemma: Part I - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Research participants by law firm type Niche/boutique law firm 12.44 percent Regional business law firm 10.36 percent National independent law firm 57.51 percent International business law firm 19.69 ...

In a new three-part series and follow-up to last year's Practice article on "Defining the Perfect Partner," Moray McLaren details "The Salaried Partner Dilemma," or what "partnership of the future looks like," according to the numbers.

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Surviving the Legal Market's Most Dangerous Trap - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School

In "Surviving the Legal Market's Most Dangerous Trap," Mariano Batalla details three types of law firms—unicorns, hedgehogs, and jellyfish. Who are you going to be?

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Resilience and Reinvention in the Latin American Legal Market - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession There was a 10 percent drop in women partnership hires from 2023 (38 percent) to 2024 (28 percent). Ignacio Abella, head of research, Latin Lawyer Law firms are trying to prepare for an increase in di...

"[Latin American] law firms are trying to prepare for an increase in disputes, and they need the talent to help their clients through expected downturns," Ignacio Abella, head of research at Latin Lawyer, says.

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Insiders and outsiders who have reshaped legal work These 20 individuals selected from 20 years of the FT Innovative Lawyers series have together delivered radical change in the practice and business of law

David Wilkins, HLS Center on the Legal Profession faculty director, was named an FT Innovative Lawyer along with other CLP friends and family like Michele DeStefano and Heidi Gardner: www.ft.com/content/b4b3...

More Lawyers Want Out of Law Firms That Made Deals With Trump, but Notice Periods May Slow Them Down | Law.com Some partnership agreements include notice periods if departing partners wish to leave their firms in good standing and have their capital contributions returned.

“In the past 20 years, the Big Law firms have realized how important partners are—they are the assets of the firm,” said [Robert] Couture, who previously served as executive director of Am Law 50 firm McGuireWoods from 2005 to 2019.

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Surviving the Legal Market's Most Dangerous Trap - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School

"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."

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YouTube video by Bloomberg Television US-China Future, Cheap Gas, UK Losing Millionaires, Investing in Big Law | Wall Street Week

The business of law is changing, with litigation finance, private equity, high partner salaries, and more. David B. Wilkins joins David Westin on Wall Street Week for a discussion about the changing world of Big Law.

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YouTube video by IE University IE Law School | Architectures of the Global Conference 2025

How should legal education evolve in the face of global challenges?

On April 10, IE Law School hosted "Architectures of the Global: Global Legal Education," a conference that brought together thought leaders, educators, and legal professionals.

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YouTube video by HLS CLP Inequality, Access to Justice, and the Rule of Law

WATCH: Inequality, Access to Justice, and the Rule of Law, a conference in cooperation with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Equal Justice Works, and the Association of American Law Schools

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