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@hlsclp.bsky.socialHow might AI reshape the structure of the legal profession—and whom will it serve? The latest issue of #ThePractice takes up that question and more.
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@hlsclp.bsky.socialHow might AI reshape the legal profession? Our new issue of #ThePractice asks what structure and rules it needs, how it could better serve people who struggle to get legal help, and what history can teach us:
clp.law.harvard.edu/article/intr...
@nyucic.bsky.socialReposted by @hlsclp.bsky.socialFor the newest @hlsclp.bsky.social The Practice Magazine issue, CIC's Themba Mahleka and @natekedwards.bsky.social discuss why #AIGovernance needs to be a multistate, multilateral solution when it comes to the use of AI in the access to justice ecosystem.
@hlsclp.bsky.socialTech leaders have compared AI to electricity, fire, and the printing press. We asked historians what those analogies miss.
Read more in our issue on the AI restructuring:
clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialWhen clients can do more legal work themselves, what are they paying law firms for?
Read more in an excerpt from Bjarne P. Tellmann's book "Law in the Era of AI":
clp.law.harvard.edu/article/law-...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialWill AI become a bridge to justice—or a substitute for it? Gerald Abila of BarefootLaw built an AI lawyer named Winnie, then kept her behind the scenes. We ask in #ThePractice what governing AI for access to justice would take:
clp.law.harvard.edu/article/a-br...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialThirty years after "The Future of Law," Richard Susskind on why AI could finally transform legal work—not just automate it—and why its real prize is closing the justice gap. #ThePractice: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/rede...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialOur new issue of #ThePractice, The AI Restructuring, asks how AI is remaking the legal profession—from the billable hour and the shape of law firms to who can get legal help at all: clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialHenry Moniz, then global head of legal/regulatory compliance at Viacom and now Meta's chief compliance officer, told #ThePractice in 2016 how compliance moved from "You can do this but can't do that" to "How can we do this?"
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@hlsclp.bsky.socialWhat if the crises of 2020 were a sign that the system itself needs rethinking? Harvard Professor Rebecca M. Henderson argues that the pandemic, the economic collapse, and demands for racial justice exposed structural problems that markets alone can't solve.
@hlsclp.bsky.socialWhat does it take to practice law where there are no templates?
Michelle Hanlon (University of Mississippi Center for Air and Space Law) and Paul Weber (Blue Origin) describe building space law as it moves from theory into daily practice.
@hlsclp.bsky.social"Strategy is about saying no more than it's about saying yes," Lorie Almon of Seyfarth Shaw told #ThePractice before becoming chair.
@hlsclp.bsky.socialWhat happens to a county when the last lawyer in it retires?
Professor Lisa Pruitt (UC Davis) has spent nearly two decades on that question. "If you don't have any lawyers, your courthouse isn't going to function."
Read more in our issue on legal deserts:
clp.law.harvard.edu/article/conf...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialIf the bar exam is the gate into the profession, what exactly is it measuring? What might an alternative entryway into the profession, like supervised practice, look like?
Read more in our issue on rethinking licensure:
clp.law.harvard.edu/article/prac...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialCan a lawyer win for their client and set the movement back?
Read more in our issue on global disability cause lawyering:
clp.law.harvard.edu/article/glob...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialWho actually regulates lawyers—the courts or the bar?
Leslie C. Levin (UConn Law) takes up that question through the case of malpractice insurance, which only two states require lawyers to carry.
Read more in our issue on legal regulation:
clp.law.harvard.edu/article/the-...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialWhen the financial crisis hit Portugal, most law firms cut costs and staff. Vieira de Almeida rebuilt. The takeaway? How a firm arrives at its strategic vision can matter as much as the vision itself. Read about an HLS case study in #ThePractice: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/inno...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialWhose name comes first on a deal—and what does the order tell you? "Deal leadership teams have a hierarchy," write George, Gulati & Yoon in #ThePractice. Across 10,000+ deals, women are still likelier to sit lower in it than at the top.
@hlsclp.bsky.socialWhat happens to the rule of law when the people dismantling it are lawyers?
Read more in our issue on lawyers between democracy and authoritarianism:
clp.law.harvard.edu/article/why-...
@hlsclp.bsky.socialIs a single ESG score telling anyone anything useful? Gillian Tett — now Provost of King's College, Cambridge, then of the Financial Times — told #ThePractice the E, the S, and the G pull against each other more often than they align.