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November 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
From #ThePractice archives: Is a law firm’s brand a vanity project or a strategic asset?

Read more in our issue on marketing and business development in law:
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Building a Brand to Create Competitive Advantage - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
Brand in the legal industry is often an underutilized and neglected asset. Brand plays a hugely important role in developing and maintaining a successful law firm. In every buying decision, both the f...
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November 6, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Are law schools part of the reason rural America lacks lawyers?“We get so caught up in the prestige game, and rural areas are sadly lacking in prestige,” Lisa Pruitt (UC Davis) tells David B. Wilkins in #ThePractice.

Read more in our issue on legal deserts:
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Confronting Antirural Bias - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
David B. Wilkins, faculty director of the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, spoke with Lisa Pruitt, who has been writing about the intersection of rurality and the law for nearly two ...
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November 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
3) “In the mid-19th century, around 80 percent of the U.S. Congress were lawyers. Today, just under 40 percent are lawyers,” wrote Nick Robinson in #ThePractice in 2015. Who is replacing them?

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Lawyers in Politics - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
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November 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
1) It’s Election Day. Who are the lawyers behind the ballot? Over the years, we’ve looked at three sides of that question in #ThePractice. A thread:
November 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Where do good ideas come from, and has the legal profession walled itself off from them? In #ThePractice, we look at why collaborating with nonlawyers drives innovation, and why U.S. rules still stand in its way:
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Thinking Outside the Box - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
No matter how much time passes or how technologically advanced we become, we continue to wrestle with an age-old question: Where do good ideas come from? Steven Johnson wrote a New York Times best-sel...
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November 2, 2026 at 7:54 PM
“The competition that will likely kill current lawyers won’t look like current law firms,” Richard Susskind tells #ThePractice.

Read more in our issue on the AI restructuring:
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Redesigning 19th-Century Institutions for 21st-Century Problems - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
David B. Wilkins, faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession, sat down with Richard Susskind, the profession’s leading scholar on AI and law, to talk about the future of the profession. Da...
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November 2, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Weil, Gotshal & Manges will wind down after 95 years. Our thoughts are with its lawyers and staff.

“Law firms die with extreme ease and astonishing speed,” writes John Morley in #ThePractice.

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Why Law Firms Collapse - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
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October 29, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Nueva entrega del podcast ENSERIADOS (Telemadrid, Onda Madrid, Spotify, Redes) en esta ocasión dedicada a los LEGULEYOS, porque ¿Quién se puede resistir a una buena serie de abogados? #elabogado #thepractice #elabogadodellincoln #elpesodelajusticia #juanluisalvarez
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Enseriados Leguleyos 24.10.2026
Esta semana Juan Luis Álvarez le dedica este espacio a los Eenseriados leguleyos; seriales sobre la vida y milagros de abogados en un lado y en el otro de la justicia. Los teníamos un poco abandonados...
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October 28, 2026 at 8:44 AM
What happens after a client files a complaint against a lawyer? In 2025, Massachusetts bar counsel processed 3,773 complaints and referred about 5 percent for formal investigation. We look inside two state systems in #ThePractice:
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After the Complaint - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
In 2010, after more than a decade leading the Colorado attorney disciplinary function, John Gleason was tapped to serve as independent counsel in Arizona to investigate Maricopa County attorney Andrew...
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October 26, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Could a law firm change who applies just by rewriting its job ad? Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio tested small "nudges" in recruiting. One raised female applicants from 63.8% to 83%. Read more in #ThePractice:
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Nudges to Increase Diversity - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
Gender diversity is not merely an ornamental gesture of corporate benevolence. Creating and maintaining a gender-balanced workforce is essential to business strategy, viability, and competitiveness. M...
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October 23, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Women have been more than half of J.D. graduates since 2016. So who’s leading the deals? Over a decade of deal teams, only one in five team leaders was a woman, find Tracey E. George, Mitu Gulati, and Albert H. Yoon in #ThePractice:
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Law Firm Deal Teams - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
This article is adapted from the originally published article “The Power Five: The Making of Newsworthy Deal Teams,” found in Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, volume 77, issue 1, article 6. See the full...
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October 22, 2026 at 1:48 PM
When a law firm collapses, should clients follow their lawyers or stay with the firm? General counsel at Anheuser-Busch InBev and Monsanto weigh in, in #ThePractice:
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Navigating Uncertain Waters - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
Imagine you are the general counsel (GC) of a large company with a full spectrum of corporate legal needs. You have found a firm well suited to advance your interests, and you have formed deep relatio...
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October 21, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Can lawyers and companies do good while doing well? A few recommendations we document in #ThePractice: counsel on what the law should be, treat ethics as a long-term investment, and build a culture of integrity.

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Doing Good While Doing Well - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
It’s well known that in September 2008, AIG—the world’s biggest insurer—declared bankruptcy. Less remarked is that lawyers played a role in its downfall. The lumbering giant’s fall came as a result of...
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October 20, 2026 at 3:15 PM
In 2021, Bridgewater Associates’ Tracey Yurko described building “the virtual law firm” from law firms and PwC. Five years on, with AI reshaping legal work, does that model still hold? From the #ThePractice archive:
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Developing an Ecosystem of Service Providers - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
David B. Wilkins, faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession, spoke with Tracey Yurko, chief legal officer and corporate secretary of Bridgewater Associates, to discuss the client’s perspe...
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October 19, 2026 at 2:15 PM
What is the role of a lawyer in a declining democracy? It depends on how they view their role, says Professor Kathryn Hendley in #ThePractice.

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Why Study Lawyers Amidst Democratic Decline - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
The Lawyers and Declining Democracy (LADD) project brings together scholars studying the role of lawyers in resisting authoritarianism in countries with backsliding democracies. In 2024, the Harvard L...
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October 16, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Who records a community’s history when no one else will? Julieanna Richardson of The HistoryMakers tells #ThePractice that “nearly a century of African American achievements and struggles had gone undocumented.”

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America’s Missing Stories - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
In “John Robinson Wilkins and the Resources of the Law,” David B. Wilkins explores the lives of the lawyers who came before him—his uncle, father, grandfather, and others. In “Following in Their Foots...
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October 15, 2026 at 2:49 PM