HLS in the World | A Conversation with General Counsel

HLS Professor David Wilkins ’80, director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, and Professor of Practice Scott Westfahl ‘88, director of HLS’ Executive Education program, moderated a panel of HLS alumni leaders in a wide-ranging conversation titled “HLS Alumni Leaders of the In-House Revolution: A Conversation with General Counsel.” Panelists--Horacio Gutierrez LL.M. ’91, general counsel and vice president of legal and corporate affairs for Spotify; Kim Rivera ‘94, chief legal officer and general counsel for HP Inc.; Deirdre Stanley ’89, executive vice president and general counsel Thomson Reuters; and Laura Stein ’87, executive vice president and general counsel the Clorox Company -- discussed the challenges they face in their positions, the challenges they anticipate facing in the future, and their perspectives on the roles of law and legal education-and the rule of law itself-in the global business world.
Their talk was part of the HLS in the World bicentennial summit which took place at Harvard Law School on Friday, October 27, 2017. For more on HLS' Bicentennial, go to: 200.hls.harvard.edu.

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Good to see Napoleon Dynamite in the audience. There was some discussion on attracting more young people to law. However there are already too many lawyers in the profession. Most getting out of average law schools cannot get jobs that pay them for what they are worth. Other professions and businesses make more just with an undergrad education. Why go to law school and work so hard and have a lifetime of loans and make $60k-$70k a year? Of course Harvard lawyers and GCs are so far removed from this scenario. Law was a great progression 50-100 years ago when the average person had a 4th grade education. Lawyers were the wealthy educated class. Not so today.

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Ok, Michigan.