Benjamin Heineman Senior Distinguished Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Mr. Heineman is a distinguished senior fellow of the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School and senior fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is a graduate of Harvard College (1965), a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (1967 - graduate degree/political science), and holds a law degree from Yale Law School (1971), where he was the editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.  After graduation, he clerked for Associate Justice Potter Stewart at the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Heineman practiced law in Washington before serving at HEW from 1977-1980, ending his tenure there as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.  He was then managing partner of the Washington office of Sidley & Austin, focusing on Supreme Court and test case litigation.  In 1987, Mr. Heineman became Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the General Electric Company located in Fairfield, Connecticut. In 2004, he was named GE's Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs.

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Michele D. Beardslee Research Fellow, Program on the Legal Profession Climenko Fellow, Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Michele Beardslee received her JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2002.  After graduating from law school, she clerked for Chief Judge William G. Young of the Federal District Court of Massachusetts and then worked for one year as a Special Master on a patent law case.  Prior to law school, Ms. Beardslee was a Senior Marketing Manager at Levi Strauss & Company (1995-1998) and an Account Executive at Leo Burnett Advertising Company (1991-1995). 

After serving for several years as the Associate Research Director of the Program, Ms. Beardslee recently accepted a Climenko teaching fellowship at Harvard Law School, where she is a Lecturer on Law.  She will remain with the Program as a Research Fellow in order to continue her research on the intersection of public relations and high stakes litigation.

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Sean H. Williams Research Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Sean Williams joined the program as a Research Fellow following two years as a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School.  As part of the Program’s Corporate Purchasing Project, he is currently interviewing general counsels at Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies to ascertain how they hire, fire, and manage outside counsel.  Sean brings both legal and survey experience to the Center.  Prior to attending law school at the University of Chicago, Sean worked as a statistical programmer for The Urban Institute and the National Institutes of Health.

Mr. Williams has published three papers on adolescent health issues and contributed to many other public health research projects.  After law school, he clerked for Judge Cynthia Hall on the Ninth Circuit and then came to Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law.  As a Climenko Fellow he taught Legal Writing to first year law students.  His most recent legal publication, Postnuptial Agreements, is forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review.

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Galit A. Sarfaty Research Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Galit Sarfaty is a Research Fellow at the Center.  She holds a JD from Yale Law School and an AB summa cum laude from Harvard College.  She is completing her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago.  Ms. Sarfaty expands the focus of the Center’s work by bringing a public interest and human rights dimension to its research agenda.

During her tenure as a Research Fellow, she will be writing up her ethnographic research on human rights at the World Bank based on field work conducted at the institution over a four year period.  She also will begin a comparative analysis of the organizational cultures of public and private international institutions, focusing on the role of lawyers in furthering ethical norms.  These research projects fit within the Program’s goals of examining the global transformation of the legal profession and the ethical problems confronting it.

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C. Scott Hemphill was a graduate Research Fellow with the Program on the Legal profession from 2004-06.  He now is an Associate Professor at Columbia Law School, where his teaching and research interests include antitrust and the regulation of industry, intellectual property, the economic structure of legal practice, and statutory interpretation.