What you'll learn

  • Clarity on what’s coming next. Step back from day-to-day demands to see the big picture of how AI, new business models, and market forces are reshaping legal work and leadership.

  • A practical AI and innovation plan. Learn how to use AI and emerging technologies to solve real problems, redesign workflows, and create value—without losing sight of risk, ethics, and judgment.

  • Leadership capabilities for times of change. Build the skills to lead teams through uncertainty, align stakeholders, and sustain culture and performance amid constant disruption.

  • Strategies to create and demonstrate value. Understand how client expectations, alternative providers, and legal tech are changing the market—and leave with concrete ideas to differentiate your organization.

  • Tools to build resilient legal organizations. Develop approaches for designing agile structures, processes, and talent strategies that can adapt as the profession evolves.

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Course description

Gain knowledge, strategies, and practical tools you will need to successfully meet the challenges and opportunities facing the legal industry.

Course Outline

The program will cover a wide range of topics including:
  • The Forces Reshaping the Legal Profession: markets, technology, regulation, and the changing expectations of clients and talent
  • AI and the Future of Legal Work: capabilities, limits, and what they mean for how legal organizations are led and legal services are delivered
  • The Enduring Foundations of Exceptional Legal Practice: judgment, ethics, empathy, and the qualities that define the best lawyers and legal leaders
  • Leading Change in Legal Organizations: strategy, culture, and the challenge of bringing people through transformation
  • New Business Models and the Future of Legal Service Delivery: creating and demonstrating value in an increasingly competitive market
  • The Legal Profession and Society: leadership, purpose, and the role of law in a changing world
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Instructors

David Wilkins

David Wilkins

Faculty Chair, Leadership in Corporate Counsel; Vice Dean, Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession; Faculty Director, Center on the Legal Profession; Lester Kissel Professor of Law
Scott Westfahl

Scott Westfahl

Faculty Director, Harvard Law School Executive Education; Faculty Chair, Leadership in Law Firms; Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School
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