David B. Wilkins Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law Faculty Director, Program on the Legal Profession 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 David Wilkins is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law and Director of the Program on the Legal Profession and Director of the Center on Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry at Harvard Law School. He is also a Visiting 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 over 50 articles 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, and 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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Ashish Nanda Research Director - Program on the Legal Profession Faculty Director – Executive Education Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: +1 (617) 495-6506 Fax: +1 (617) 496-8489 E-mail: ananda@law.harvard.edu

Ashish Nanda is the Program’s Research Director and Professor of Practice Harvard Law School. Before joining the Law School, Professor Nanda was a Harvard Business School faculty member for 13 years. He taught Professional Services in the MBA program and the HBS executive education program Leading Professional Service Firms. A recipient the Henry B. Arthur Fellowship and the Center in Ethics and the Professions Fellowship, he has published numerous case studies and Harvard Business Review articles and is a co-author (with Tom DeLong) of Professional Services: Cases & Text.  Professor Nanda has produced over 50 case studies, the most recent of which was entitled Linklaters (A): Seeking Clear Blue Water (July 2007).

Professor Nanda is the Faculty Director of Harvard Law School's Executive Education courses.  As the Program's Research Director, he also plays a leading role in the Program’s Corporate Purchasing Project, which is a quantitative and qualitative analysis of how corporations procure legal services.  Professor Nanda also teaches a course entitled Professional Services in the JD curriculum at Harvard Law School.

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John C. Coates, IV John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics 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 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.

His current research at Harvard includes empirical studies of the causes and consequences of the completion or failure of M&A transactions, including management buyouts, and of the effects of CEO tenure and option compensation on M&A in the 1990s.  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 holds dual appointments as 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.  Professor Subramanian teaches courses related to the Program’s work, including a seminar on law and business problems and a negotiation workshop on deal design and implementation.  His research interests concentrate in the empirical analysis of deal-making and corporate law and corporate governance issues.

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