Sharing stress strategies
For ABA Mental Health Day, five faculty share struggles from their own law school days and offer options for coping and support.
Health care general counsels explore pressing health policy and legal issues at Harvard Law School
The General Counsels Roundtable helps influential health law attorneys stay on top of or even ahead of changes in health law and policy. The roundtable connects GC to experts at HLS and the broader university, while also strengthening ties between faculty and legal practice.
JET-Powered Learning
Through a sweeping array of new, hands-on courses, Harvard Law School’s January Experiential Term, or JET, gives 1L students a chance, early in their time on campus, to learn by doing, to work in teams, and to explore—or discover—what inspires their passion in the law.
A hackathon to promote diversity in law
For six months, Harvard Law School students and alumni worked with legal professionals to create strategies promoting diversity in the legal workplace; those ideas were unveiled at Diversity Lab’s Diversity in Law Hackathon, co-sponsored by Harvard Law School Executive Education and Bloomberg Law.
HLS 200 finale celebrates clinics
On April 20, HLS in the Community wrapped up a year-long celebration of Harvard Law School’s bicentennial by highlighting the contributions made by HLS clinics and students practice organizations (SPOs).
Crossing over from a legal to a financial career
Kicking of the Harvard Association for Law & Business’ seventh annual symposium on Feb. 26, a panel of top-level executives in the financial world explored the possibilities of crossing over from a legal to a financial career.
HLS students harness artificial intelligence to revolutionize how lawyers draft and manage contracts
With Evisort, a powerful new search engine that harnesses cloud storage and artificial intelligence, four HLS students hope to revolutionize the costly and labor-intensive way that lawyers currently handle contracts and other transactional work, liberating them for more creative and interesting tasks.
The Laws of Adaptation
Change is coming to the legal profession—whether attorneys like it or not—and HLS is at the forefront of efforts to anticipate it, and prepare students.
More women means more success
HLS Professor of Practice Scott Westfahl ’88, faculty director of HLS Executive Education, recently wrote “More women means more success,” an article for the National Association of Women Lawyers’ Women Lawyers Journal on the economic reasons for diversity at the management level.
Closing argument: Innovation, teamwork drive Romeen Sheth ’15
Romeen Sheth ’15 is a team player who works well with others–not because he has to, but because he prefers to, and he wishes more lawyers felt the same way.