Legal Profession and Ethics

Organizers of an AI conference at Harvard Law say the unprecedented rate of technological change “makes it even harder for the already trailing legal system to catch up.”

An event at Harvard Law School highlighted the challenges faced by caregivers working in the legal profession, especially women with children.

David Wilkins, part of the core research team that launched a longitudinal study on lawyers’ lives, 
describes what’s changed and — despite best intentions — what hasn’t in the past 20 years

David Wilkins explains how a host of contentious new issues that are increasingly landing on lawyers’ desks are transforming the practice of law.

Harvard Law School’s David Wilkins says that generative artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the practice of law.

Harvard Law’s Center on the Legal Profession co-hosts the International Legal Aid Group's 14th biennial conference.

Harvard Law’s Semester in Washington Program celebrates 15 years of helping students become government lawyers

Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner says a lack of transparency and recent incidents involving justices, spouses, and activists have tarnished the Court's public standing.

New York Times lawyer David McCraw discusses modern challenges to press freedom and growing distrust of the news media.

Harvard Law expert J.S. Nelson says that Elon Musk and the tech industry risk gains when they engage in disreputable business practices.

Now that the champagne is long gone, the confetti has been swept up, and we are settling into 2023, Harvard Law Today wondered what changes the new year might have in store for the practice of law.

Professors Jeannie Suk Gersen and Janet Halley lead the Academic Freedom Alliance, an organization that protects the rights of faculty to speak or publish without fear of sanction or punishment.

In a talk moderated by HLS Professor Intisar Rabb, Ret. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer ‘64 and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Supreme Court of Pakistan, reflect on serving in the judiciary.

A discussion series on the future of law school pedagogy envisions new ways to support students, faculty.

During the daylong conference “Reimagining the Role of Business in the Public Square,” panelists weighed the responsibilities corporations have to the country and exchanged ideas about how to move firms further on their environmental, social, and governance — or ESG — pledges.

Harvard Law School Professor David Wilkins, the faculty director of the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, says corporations are increasingly under pressure "to change the way in which they relate to the world, relate to the environment, relate to their stakeholders, and relate to broader issues around social justice."

In the wake of the FBI’s raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, former White House counsel and Harvard Law lecturer Neil Eggleston reveals how departing presidents have typically preserved official records.

‘Everyone is struggling to understand what this new world is going to look like’