David B. Wilkins Vice Dean, Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession Director, Program on the Legal Profession Lester Kissel Professor of Law Harvard Law School 1575 Massachusetts Avenue Hauser Hall #312 Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: +1 (617) 495-0958 Fax: +1 (617) 496-8489 E-mail: dwilkins@law.harvard.edu

Professor Wilkins is the Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, and the faculty director of the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also a senior research fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a faculty associate of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.

Professor Wilkins has written extensively on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press and is the co-author (along with his Harvard Law School colleague Andrew Kaufman) of one of the leading casebooks in the field.  His current scholarly projects on the profession include After the JD, a ten-year nationwide longitudinal study of lawyers' careers, the Harvard Law School Career Study, a quantitative and qualitative examination of how corporations purchase legal services, an empirical project on the development of "ethical infrastructure" in large law firms based on a series of focus groups with leading practitioners and regulators, an examination of the practice of “offshoring” legal work to India, and over 200 in-depth interviews in connection with a forthcoming Oxford University Press book on the development of the black corporate bar.

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Ashish Nanda Robert Braucher Professor of Practice Research Director, Case Development & International Internships Lewis 325 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: +1 (617) 495-6506 Fax: +1 (617) 496-8489 E-mail: ananda@law.harvard.edu

Ashish Nanda is the Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. He is faculty director of Executive Education at Harvard Law School and research director at the Program on the Legal Profession. He teaches “Leadership in Law Firms” in the JD program, leads the Case Development and Distribution Initiative, and is a member of the research team conducting the Program’s Corporate Purchasing Project. 

Before joining Harvard Law School, Professor Nanda was a Harvard Business School faculty member for 13 years, where he taught “Professional Services” in the MBA program and continues to teach in the school’s executive education courses. 

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John C. Coates, IV John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics Research Director, Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School Griswold Hall #400 1525 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: + 1 (617) 496-4420 Fax: + 1 (617) 496-5156 E-mail: jcoates@law.harvard.edu

John Coates, IV is the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics and research director of the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School.  He joined the faculty in 1997 after private practice at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he was a partner specializing in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and securities law, and the regulation of financial institutions. Before coming to HLS, he taught on the adjunct faculties of New York University School of Law and Boston University School of Law.  He was promoted to Professor in 2001, and was named the John F. Cogan Jr. Professor of Law and Economics in 2006.

His current research at Harvard includes empirical studies of the purchasing of legal services by S&P 500 companies, the causes and consequences of the completion or failure of M&A transactions, mutual funds and the effects of their regulation, and the causes and consequences  of CEO and CLO turnover.  He teaches courses on Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Institutions Regulation, Contracts, Corporations, and the History of Capitalist Institutions.   Professor Coates is a principal researcher on the Program’s Corporate Purchasing Project, a quantitative and qualitative examination of how corporations purchase legal services.  He also instructs at the Program’s Executive Education course. 

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Guhan Subramanian Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business Harvard Law School Griswold Hall #402 1525 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: + 1 (617) 495-9784 Fax: + 1 (617) 496-5156 E-mail: subraman@law.harvard.edu

Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at Harvard Law School and the H. Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at Harvard Business School. He is the only person in the history of Harvard University to hold tenured appointments at both HLS and HBS. At HLS he teaches courses in negotiations and corporate law. At HBS he teaches in several executive education programs, such as Strategic Negotiations, Changing the Game, Managing Negotiators and the Deal Process, and Making Corporate Boards More Effective. He is the faculty chair for the JD/MBA program at Harvard University and the Vice Chair for Research at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty he spent three years at McKinsey & Company in their New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. offices.

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