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C.J. Mahoney
Inside Counsel at Meta Scale What does it mean to serve as chief legal officer at a company operating at the scale of Meta? The question is not simply how to manage litigation or supervise outside counsel. It is how to lead a legal function inside a business that sits at the intersection of platform governance, product design, antitrust scrutiny,…
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Prof. Richard Sander
The debate over affirmative action now turns on a sharp legal and empirical tension: after Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, institutions committed to diversity…
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Terri Adler
Negotiation strategy often turns on a difficult legal and professional tension: lawyers are expected to advocate forcefully for clients, but the tactics that shape leverage…
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As states across the United States close non-essential businesses and countries around the world restrict their borders in response to the COVID-19 crisis, the economic…
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Fundamentally, the legal profession is a storytelling profession. You do well as a lawyer by relating your client’s position, a point in the deal negotiation, an argument to a jury to a story.
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Former U.S. Managing Partner, Freshfields
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