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

Swethaa Ballakrishnen was an Inlaks Scholar to the Harvard LL.M class’08 and a ’04 graduate of the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad (where she won the Amancharla Krishna Murti Memorial Gold Medal for the best student of her graduating batch). In 2008, she joined PLP and EALS as a Joint Research Fellow with a South Asia specific research agenda.

Before coming to Harvard, Ms. Ballakrishnen was an international finance lawyer with the Mumbai offices of Amarchand Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., an intern at the Supreme Court of India with Justice A. Pasayat and spent a year teaching international finance and legal methods at two national law schools in Hyderabad and Bhopal, India.

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Young-Kyu Kim Research Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Young-Kyu Kim received his PhD from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 2008. In his doctoral work, Young-Kyu examined the issue of social status and organizational identity in various empirical settings, such as the venture capital industry and legal/financial advisory services in the mergers and acquisitions markets. His current research involves the application of his theoretical work to the law firm context. During his fellowship, he has been working on the Program’s Corporate Purchasing Project, investigating the role of social networks in lawyers’ career mobility, and exploring the issue of social status in the legal service industry.

Prior to his doctoral studies, Young-Kyu studied information system management at Carnegie Mellon University and worked for the Korea Information Society Development Institute, where he actively participated in various legislative reform projects in the telecommunication and postal sectors in Korea. One of his research projects, “Why Pseudonyms? Deception as Identity Preservation among Jazz Record Companies, 1920 – 1929 (with Professor Damon J. Phillips at the University of Chicago)” has recently been published at Organization Science in the May-June 2009 Issue.

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Gabriele Plickert Research Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Gabriele Plickert is a Research Fellow with the Program and a Research Social Scientist at the American Bar Foundation (ABF). She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Gabriele’s current scholarship focuses on the career trajectories of legal professionals. Her academic training and research on life course trajectories include micro- (i.e., work-life balance, mental and physical health) and macro- (i.e., political economy, organizations) level changes. Through her involvement as co-principal investigator in lawyers’ studies in the U.S. and Germany, her current research encompasses comparisons of legal cultures and ethical rulings in law firms and corporations. Her research seeks to expand our understanding of lawyer’s roles and responsibilities in an era of globalized social and economic relations.

During her residence as a Research Fellow, Gabriele is serving as principal investigator (with David Wilkins) on the Harvard Law School Career Study which surveys the professional lives of members of selected classes between 1960 and 2000. The study examines legal careers at various life stages, and investigates how personal and professional patterns vary for women and men. At the American Bar Foundation (ABF), Gabriele is a co-principal investigator (with John Hagan and Patricia Parker) on a comparative study of early post-law school careers in U.S. and German cities. This comparative research seeks to mark out a parallel international track of joint study that will expand our understanding of lawyers’ lives in an era of globalized social and economic relations.

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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.