NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER ON THE LEGAL PROFESSION FALL 2019

2019 Update The Rule of Law on the National Stage Sally Yates, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General and former Acting U.S. Attorney General, visited SLS on February 12th to talk with law students about her time at the Department of Justice. Yates was interviewed by Professor Deborah Rhode and answered student questions about her time in the Trump Administration and the role of government lawyers. Sally Yates

For the first ten days of the how it works. Normally there is a on its record, is this constitutional Trump Administration, Yates served whole process where… all the or not?” as acting Attorney General, which is agencies that would be affected She recalled the meeting where a tradition for the prior Deputy have an opportunity to weigh in.” everyone who would be involved in Attorney General. Generally, Yates Yates described spending the defending the ban gave their views. explained, the understanding is weekend trying to figure out what “When we got to the end of that that “nothing happens during that the goals of the executive order discussion, it was becoming time…” Her tenure was a notable were – who was supposed to be increasingly clear to me… that for exception. The most critical issue covered and not covered – and us to defend the travel ban, I was facing Yates was the travel ban, pulling up cases on her IPad. “On going to have to send DOJ lawyers which she discovered through her Monday morning, I was told that we into court to argue that this travel Chief of Staff, who read about it in would have to take a position the ban had absolutely nothing to do the online New York Times. As she next day… A judge had ordered with religion, absolutely nothing. wryly noted, “That’s not normally the Department of Justice to state, And that was (continued, page 2)

1 The Rule of Law on the National Stage 3 Challenges Facing Law Firm Leaders 4 From the Director 5 Trying Cases While Women 6 Using Design to Improve Legal Services 7 How Compliance and Culture Help Business Succeed 8 Are Prosecutors the Key to Criminal Justice Reform? 9 The Supreme Court as a Political Institution 10 Outreach Activities 11 About the Center “...I couldn’t in good conscience send our lawyers in to advance an argument that I didn’t believe was grounded in truth, and particularly when it’s about something that’s absolutely as core to the definition

Sally Yates in conversation with Deborah Rhode, February 12, 2019. of our country as religious freedom.”

The Rule of Law unlawful, unconstitutional, or even -- Sally Yates, on whether to defend (continued from page 2) something that would bring the President’s travel ban despite all the statements the dishonor to the Department of President had made both on the Justice. They were talking about a campaign trail and after he had different president then… but it go to Stanford Law School and been elected about his intent to seems the principle should be the don’t know how things actually effectuate a Muslim ban.…And you same. They were right about work, will come to believe that is know, I don’t think any lawyer that…I felt like it was my job as the how the system works: that the should be advancing something acting Attorney General who was President does order up that’s not grounded in truth, but I responsible for the entire investigations of rivals, or protect sure don’t think the Department of Department of Justice to make a people with whom he’s close, and Justice should be doing that. I decision about what the then the whole criminal justice couldn’t in good conscience send department’s position would be. So system comes crumbling down, I our lawyers in to advance an I did.” think, if the public loses confidence argument that I didn’t believe was Besides the travel ban issue, Yates in it.” grounded in truth, and particularly expressed other concerns about the Yates concluded with some when it’s about something that’s rule of law. “Since Watergate, there thoughts on the distinctive absolutely as core to the definition has been a strong norm through obligations of lawyers. “There is a of our country as religious both Democratic and Republican special responsibility that comes freedom.” Administrations alike that there is a with being a lawyer. We as lawyers Yates then described her dilemma wall between the Justice have the ability to make this world a about whether to resign, or direct Department and the White House little more just. And there’s no one the DOJ not to defend the ban. “I when it comes to criminal thought back to my confirmation investigations and prosecutions… way to do that. We have an ability to hearing [for DAG] when then- The idea [of the rule of law] is that be able to chart a course that Senator Sessions and Senator the laws apply equally to everyone regular people who aren’t lawyers Cornyn and others were absolutely – and they’re not used as a sword to don’t have. And so I think that all all over me… about whether I go after your enemies or a shield to of us, at some point in our careers, would say no to the President if he protect your friends… I worry that need to be doing something to asked me to do something that was regular folks out there who don’t make this world a little more just.”

2 Ora Fisher, Mitch Zuklie, Katie Martin with Deborah Rhode

Challenges Facing Law Firm Leaders

In a panel on April 18, three law firm leaders – Ora Fisher differently, in part because they of Latham and Watkins, Katie Martin of Wilson Sonsini, want their firm to be at the cutting- edge so that they are not and Mitch Zuklie of Orrick – talked about the challenges disadvantaged in business facing major law firms and the people in charge of leading development. Fisher similarly them into the future. pointed out that firm lawyers are “hearing what clients are Fisher described the biggest to long-time firms, and the demand demanding” (i.e. innovation, challenge as “keeping our talent for more diversity. Zuklie also particularly in doing the work more engaged” as things evolve in the stressed the challenge of keeping efficiently). For Zuklie, the key is profession, both in the way that up with the evolution of clients’ celebrating different kinds of lawyers work and in the way they needs, particularly when their innovation such as developing new address clients’ needs. Martin business models change more products or services for clients, or emphasized the pressure to evolve quickly than the regulatory improving processes through as quickly (or more so) than others landscape. technology. When asked what advice they “You have to know yourself and know would have for law students your ambitions and your priorities and areas building their careers, panelists emphasized the benefits of starting of interest.” at a big law firm. Martin cited the -- Ora Fisher, Latham and Watkins, discussing the importance of new training opportunities and lawyers owning their own careers improved mentoring at a firm like Wilson Sonsini. Zuklie cited his in the legal industry, given the In moderating the discussion, relationships with both clients and “fierce” competition for both work Deborah Rhode asked how law firm colleagues as a major benefit of his and talent, and the pressure from leaders tackle the challenge of experience at a large law firm, and clients to provide quality work at innovation, when many lawyers may stressed the importance of strong lower cost. Zuklie mentioned other feel that they are doing fine under sponsors in his own career. Fisher changing dynamics with clients, current circumstances. Martin and including the demand for more Fisher responded by noting forces emphasized the need for young “analytical rigor” from firms to that push the firm towards lawyers to “own your own career…. complement the qualitative and innovation. Martin observed that You have to know yourself and judgment components of lawyers’ the many of the lawyers at her firm know your ambitions and your advice, the decrease in client loyalty were the ones pushing to do things priorities and areas of interest.”

3 FROM THE DIRECTOR

Whenever someone quotes the Kristin Sverchek, GC of Lyft, explored Chinese curse “May you live in the role of general counsel in creating interesting times,” it is usually to point cultures of compliance at major out the upside of such eras. This corporations. A panel of accomplished column is no exception. Certain and diverse litigators discussed the distinctive challenges facing the legal challenges of “Trying Cases While profession in the past year formed the Women.” Advisory Forum members basis for particularly strong programming by the Mitch Zuklie, Ora Fisher, and Katie Martin of Center on the Legal Profession. Some centered on Wilson Sonsini talked about the leadership questions presented by the Trump administration challenges facing chairs who manage large law concerning the rule of law and the ethical firms. And Matt Fawcett, the GC of NetApp, joined responsibilities of Supreme Court Justices, Mike Callahan, former GC of LinkedIn and Yahoo government attorneys, and elected politicians. (now executive director of the Rock Center at Sally Yates spoke to students and the Advisory Stanford), to talk with leadership students about Forum about her firing as acting Attorney General ethical dilemmas for general counsel. after she refused to enforce President Trump’s The Center has also supported various research travel ban against citizens from predominantly projects. One, ongoing, involves pro bono by Muslim nations. New Yorker and CNN in-house counsel offices. Another, with the commentator Jeffrey Toobin explored current Stanford Criminal Justice Center, involves the use challenges for the Supreme Court. And former of criminal records in determining “moral Senator Russ Feingold addressed the law school character” for bar admissions. I have a book on “Making a Difference Through Politics.” coming out this fall with Oxford University Press, Character: What It Means and Why It Matters, Some prominent speakers addressed other hot discussing such issues. button issues. Emily Bazelon, writer for The New All in all, it has been a pretty good way to end York Times Magazine and author of the new book the Center’s first decade. We will be celebrating Charged, keynoted a panel on prosecutorial our 10th anniversary next fall with a workshop on practices and the need for criminal justice reform. Access to Justice and we hope to find many of you Advisory Forum member David Sanford discussed in attendance. As always, we welcome your recent gender discrimination lawsuits against law thoughts and are grateful for your support. firms and academic institutions. Another series of events helped students think more deeply about DEBORAH L. RHODE challenges facing the legal profession, and their Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law own futures. Louise Pentland, CLO of PayPal, and Director, Center on the Legal Profession

4 was challenging the status quo Trying Cases While more than she expected, and described an incident where a Women judge talked to her in a patently condescending tone and asked for her bar number. Sirur filed a complaint against the judge, which she and her colleagues thought was necessary to put the judge “on notice” that lawyers were watching his behavior. Sirur, who is African- American, felt that she was being treated in a way that assumed she didn’t know what she was Lara Bazelon, University Lynn Hermle, Orrick Anisa Sirur, SF Deputy of San Francisco Public Defender talking about. All three lawyers flagged the need to pick your battles and push In an April 23 panel discussion for from judges, clients, opponents, back against a judge in an students at Stanford – co-sponsored and jurors. appropriate way. by Women at Stanford Law – Lara Bazelon was joined by two The panelists also noted the need Bazelon keynoted a conversation copanelists. One was Lynne to pay attention to their arising from her widely circulated Hermle, a prominent employment appearance in front of juries. 2018 article in the Atlantic, “What It partner at Orrick best known for Hermle recalled being “shocked” Takes to be a Trial Lawyer If You’re Not successfully defending the venture during the Pao trial by the focus on a Man.” The piece recounted the capital firm Kleiner Perkins at trial her appearance, and indicated she challenges that women still face in against Ellen Pao’s gender has developed a “trial uniform” today’s courtrooms, relying in part discrimination claim. The other, on a study authored by Professor Anisa Sirur, is a public defender in where she looks like a mom so as Deborah Rhode when she chaired San Francisco who is part of a not to worry each day. Juries are the American Bar Association’s younger generation of female “obsessed with the way women Commission on Women in the early women trial lawyers navigating look, absolutely obsessed,” Bazelon 2000s. In that study, Rhode these issues. agreed. “They notice your jewelry, discussed the double bind and Hermle described a context that they notice if you’re wearing double standard confronting has not changed much over the makeup, they notice everything.” women attorneys. The double bind course of her career, with most To end the panel, Bazelon talked involves the need to avoid being judges being men, male opponents about the “mythical work-life perceived as too feminine or not sometimes being difficult, and balance” that women are told to feminine enough, too soft or too jurors being “overly observant” and achieve, and acknowledged that aggressive. And the double “curious” about female litigators. sometimes she has “chosen my standard is that often what is seen But Hermle has also found that as assertive in a man is seen as being a woman gives her certain clients” to fully focus on when she abrasive in a woman. These advantages, including the ability to is at trial. She later wrote a New York challenges are particularly salient pose tough questions in a manner Times op-ed touching on these in the courtroom, when female trial that did not alienate the jury. themes called “I’ve Picked My Job counsel receive special scrutiny Sirur noted that her generation Over My Kids.”

5 Using Design to Improve Legal Services

Margaret Hagan, David Gross, Kate Razavi

he Legal Design Lab innovators from around the world students are working with Law continues to use design to discuss how to experiment with Foundation of Silicon Valley to Tthinking and technology to regulatory changes, and the Utah adapt this for the Law Foundation’s tackle some of the most difficult Supreme Court decided to use the clients and other legal contexts. problems in the legal system. This “regulatory sandbox” model The Lab also hosted its first past year, Margaret Hagan ramped discussed there – and most workshop to introduce lawyers to up the Lab’s work as a research and commonly used in fintech -- to the fundamentals of design development hub that advances experiment with new approaches to thinking and visual advocacy. access to justice by developing new regulating legal services. The Designed and taught in partnership tools, with the help of a full-time Supreme Court Justice leading that with David Gross and Kate Razavi of software developer. For example, effort – Deno Himonas – will be at Faegre, the workshop aimed to the San Mateo County courts are Stanford in the fall to discuss Utah’s expose participants to the “toolkit” currently experimenting with our initiative, which Margaret and Lucy of design-thinking techniques that Wise Messenger texting tool, and Ricca have helped develop. they could then go back and use in pro se litigants facing eviction in In the winter and spring quarters, their everyday work as lawyers. Arizona (and soon Ohio) can use Margaret co-taught a course called an interactive tool – Eviction Help “Justice + Poverty Innovation,” with -- built by one of our student fellows sociologist David Grusky, head of Software Developed by the Legal Design Lab that helps identify tenants’ defenses the Stanford Center on Poverty and and generates documents to Inequality, Medical School faculty Wise Messenger: prepare for court. Working with Kajal Khanna, and Lab fellow Jorge Text-messaging app for courts colleagues at Suffolk University, the Gabriel Jimenez. The goal of the to use with self-represented Lab has also been able to use course was to work with local litigants crowdsourced “issue spotting” to partners to develop new tech and Eviction Help: train an algorithm to identify legal design prototypes to address Tool to help identify tenants’ issues in Reddit postings – one of poverty-related problems including defenses and generate court the Lab’s initial forays into the use debt, housing, and medical care. documents of AI to improve the legal system. Students came up with a number of Learned Hands: This year, the Lab also started promising prototypes such as a Legal issue-spotting game to applying design-thinking principles text-messaging translation app that train an algorithm by analyzing to the task of regulatory reform for allows Spanish-speaking parents to inquiries on Reddit (with legal services. In October, the Lab communicate with English-speaking Suffolk University) convened a group of policy teachers and administrators. The

6 How Compliance and Culture Help Business Succeed In February 2019, the Center also sponsored a panel Louise Pentland, PayPal discussion with leading general counsel to discuss leadership in complex organizations. Louise Pentland, CLO of PayPal, and Kristin Sverchek, GC of Lyft, talked about their efforts to make strong compliance programs part of the corporate culture.

Sverchek explained how for a willing to fight having to comply Kristin Sverchek, Lyft consumer-facing company like Lyft, with regulations that covered cab strong compliance – doing companies because that was central background checks on their to their business. drivers, for example – is integral to Both also reflected on the In jurisdictions where building consumer trust. Pentland challenges of establishing effective also talked about PayPal’s evolution the company is “good compliance programs in companies from being a start-up within Ebay to that operate in multiple on the basics,” it a stand-alone public company, and jurisdictions – more than 200 can ask regulators how as the company has grown, it has embraced strong compliance as countries for PayPal, and hundreds to allow innovation part of its identity as a “force of states and localities in the U.S. in “a controlled for good.” and Canada for Lyft. Both agreed Both counsel also talked about that centralizing the company’s environment.” what they consider smart approach to compliance was “regulatory risk.” Pentland pointed important, but so was the need to Pentland and Sverchek pointed out as a global business using new visit regional offices to reinforce out that although the business ethics and compliance functions technologies, PayPal will inevitably the value of compliance and were different and generally need the trust of regulators, and understand local variations. Both handled by different people, they their willingness to give the GCs emphasized the need to company the benefit of the doubt were both core parts of a strong “operationalize” compliance and as issues arise. In jurisdictions corporate culture. And they even automate the work with the where the company is “good on the pointed out that a general counsel help of the engineering teams, basics,” it can ask regulators to who is well-integrated into the making it more of a core business allow innovation in “a controlled company’s leadership team can environment.” Sverchek function that is built into the help create a positive culture, and distinguished between regulatory product at an early stage, rather make it consistent with the risk that is germane to the core than an outside activity that lawyers company’s mission and values. interest of the business, and risk do after a product is built that is not. For example, Lyft was and launched.

7 Are Prosecutors the Key to Criminal Justice Reform?

Bazelon’s book discusses the wave of recently elected progressive prosecutors, and the possibilities for achieving criminal Matt Gonzalez ’90, Emily Bazelon, Professor David Sklansky justice reform.

Much of the Center’s work focuses discussed the incentives facing In addition to this criminal justice on access to civil justice, but the prosecutors, and emphasized the programming, the Center also Center continues to shine a light importance of judging prosecutors released a report in July with on the challenges facing the on metrics other than conviction Stanford’s Criminal Justice Center criminal justice system as well. On rates and success in high- on the use of criminal records in May 6, Professor David Sklansky profile cases. determining “moral character and moderated a discussion with Emily Though both Bazelon and fitness” for bar and law school Bazelon, writer for The New York Gonzalez thought that progressive admissions. The report concluded Times Magazine and author of the prosecutors had potential to that the use of such records was a new book Charged: The New achieve significant reform, they problematic barrier unlikely to Movement to Transform American each pointed to other institutional further the goal of public Prosecution and End Mass actors who could play important protection, and the California state Incarceration, and Matt Gonzalez roles. Congress could provide bar has already signaled that they ’90, Chief Attorney in the SF Public federal funding to support indigent will be using it to revisit the way Defender’s Office. Bazelon’s book defense and condition subsidies on moral-character determinations are had just been featured on the front page of the New York Times Book states’ compliance with criteria for done. This report relied Review, and NPR’s Fresh Air with providing effective representation. significantly on Deborah Rhode’s Terry Gross. Bazelon highlighted State legislatures could regulate the research on the topic, which is the wave of “progressive plea bargaining process, for discussed in her forthcoming book prosecutors” profiled in her work. example, by placing a limit on the Character: What It Means and Why It These lawyers are elected on “trial penalty” that prosecutors can Matters. The report was written platforms to prosecute fewer drug request at sentencing if defendants largely by students in a policy lab and other lower-level offenses, and turn down plea offers and elect on the topic co-taught by to reduce mass incarceration. She to litigate. Lucy Ricca.

8 n October 3, Jeffrey Toobin, “The only chance to CNN analyst and New Yorker Ojournalist, discussed the defeat a nominee is Supreme Court just days after the when the opposition confirmation hearings of then- The Supreme Judge Brett Kavanagh, and days controls the Senate.” before the vote on his nomination. Court as a Before a standing-room only Political “ebb and flow” over the years in the audience, Toobin reflected on the contentiousness of the process, Supreme Court “as an institution Institution Toobin observed that there was one and as a reflection of the current constant: “The only chance for political moment.” defeating a nominee, historically at Toobin explained how for much least, is when the opposition party of the 20th century, moderate controls the Senate.” Republicans held the balance of When asked if the politicized power on the Court. But in his view, nature of the Kavanaugh hearing that part of the Court has damaged the Court as an disappeared, as has that segment of institution, or Judge Kavanaugh’s the Republican Party in the rest of relationships with his colleagues if the country. That evolution reflects confirmed, Toobin was skeptical. how the Court is set up. As Toobin “These predictions that the Court explained. “We get the Supreme will be diminished in importance, Court that we vote for on Election will be discredited, I don’t really Day.” Toobin said observers should buy it.” Recalling Justice Jackson’s be “very clear-eyed” about what the Jeffrey Toobin observation about the Court, he conservative shift on the Court quoted: “We are not final because means for the law. “It means that “We get the Supreme we are infallible. We are infallible Roe v. Wade is going to be because we are final.” overturned…. There are many Court that we vote Toobin was also confident that a states which have said openly…that for on Election Justice Kavanaugh would not have a when the composition of the Court Day...They’re problem forming relationships with changes… they will simply ban his new colleagues: “They’re nice to [abortion] and challenge the courts going to expand each other. They recognize that to overturn those bans. And the the constitutional they are stuck with each other for Supreme Court will uphold those decades. And there is an bans….Affirmative action gone, out prohibitions on gun institutional comity, civility there.” the door….They’re going to control to include Toobin also observed that the expand the constitutional more guns, bigger Justices know Kavanaugh already as prohibitions on gun control to a D.C. Circuit judge, and they include more guns, bigger guns, guns, concealed carry. “travel in the same circles.” “He’ll concealed carry. All of that is All of that is coming.” be fine,” Toobin concluded. coming.” Toobin also predicted that the Toobin gave some historical ACLU lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg conservative tilt on the Court – perspective on the confirmation was confirmed with more than 90 reflected in the replacement of process, observing that it has votes, Toobin pointed out, and Kennedy with Kavanaugh -- would become “so much more Byron White’s hearing lasted “eight produce legal change contentious” than it used to be. minutes.” Though there has been incrementally. (continued, page 10)

9 The Supreme Court (continued from page 9) Outreach Activities

“I think John Roberts in particular political context and recognize Deborah Rhode and Margaret is a very astute politician, and I where we are. He gave that Fox Hagan, Fordham Law Access to don’t say that as criticism. …The News interview, which Trump let it Justice Conference, title in the Constitution is not Chief be known it was bad and weak.” October 2018 Justice of the Supreme Court, the Given how important Trump’s Margaret Hagan, Legal Services title is Chief Justice of the United support was, “I don’t think there’s Corporation ITCon, January 2019 States. I think Roberts takes that any doubt in the world that Margaret Hagan, ABA Center seriously, that he is the Kavanaugh set out last Thursday to on Innovation Meeting, January embodiment of the judicial branch prove to the President that I’m a of government. I think he sees 2019 kick-ass guy like you are.” himself as the curator of the Toobin also pointed to the Deborah Rhode, Association of reputation of the Court, to the “gender politics” of Kavanaugh’s American Law Schools Annual extent he can… He does not relish performance. “Can you picture a Meeting, Leadership Section the Court being in the center of the Plenary Panel, January 2019 woman who would have behaved political fray. And there is a history like that? And if she had, they Deborah Rhode, Currie-Kenan of the Court denying cert Distinguished Lecture, Duke Law sometimes in cases that are would have thrown a net over her School, March 2019 particularly hot-button, waiting for and pulled her right out of the other cases to come along.” room…This is where our politics Margaret Hagan and Jason When asked about judicial are…I know the current Justices Solomon, Keynote Speakers, temperament by Professor Rhode, well enough to know that that in Legal Services Funders Network Toobin said he was “so particular would have really Annual Program, March 2019 appalled them. That is not flabbergasted” by Kavanaugh’s Deborah Rhode, Stanford performance at his confirmation how they want to see the Leadership Academy, April 2019 hearing. “You have to put in its Court portrayed.” Deborah Rhode, University of Tennessee Law School “The title in the Constitution is not Chief conference on Leadership, Justice of the Supreme Court, the title April 2019 Margaret Hagan, World Justice is Chief Justice of the United States. Forum, The Hague, May 2019

I think Roberts takes that seriously, that Margaret Hagan, DLA Piper and he is the embodiment of the judicial PILNet Access to Justice and branch of government.” Technology Summit, June 2019 Margaret Hagan, Computing, Data Science and Access to Justice: An NSF Workshop, Georgetown Law, June 2019

Margaret Hagan, University of Melbourne’s Digital Citizens conference, July 2019

10 The Center’s Faculty and Staff

Deborah L. Rhode, Jason Solomon, Margaret Hagan, Director (E.W. McFarland Executive Director, Center on Director, Legal Design Lab Professor of Law) the Legal Profession Margaret Hagan is the Deborah L. Rhode is a Jason Solomon is the Director of the Legal graduate of Yale College Executive Director of the Design Lab, a project of and Yale Law School, Stanford Center on the the Center on the Legal and served as a law Legal Profession and a Profession. Hagan is clerk to Justice Lecturer in Law. From also a lecturer at the Thurgood Marshall. She 2013-2016, he served law school and the Stanford Institute of is a former president of the International as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Design (the d.school). She was a fellow Association of Legal Ethics and the and chief of staff to the dean at Stanford at the d.school from 2013-2014, where Association of American Law Schools, a Law School, where he worked on a she launched the Program for Legal former chair of the American Bar range of strategic initiatives. He also Tech & Design, experimenting in how Association’s Commission on Women in taught Statutory Interpretation and design can make legal services more the Profession, and the former founding Constitutional Litigation. accessible and effective. She taught a series of project-based classes, with director of Stanford’s Center on Ethics Most recently, he worked as the Chief interdisciplinary student groups tackling She also served as senior counsel to the Legal Officer for Summit Learning, a legal challenges through user-focused Minority members of the Judiciary nonprofit partnership between Summit research and design of new legal Committee, the United States House of Public Schools, Facebook, and the Chan products and services. She also leads Representatives, on presidential Zuckerberg Initiative that provides a workshops to train legal professionals in impeachment issues during the Clinton project-based curriculum and learning the design process in order to produce administration. She is the most platform to public middle and high client-focused innovation. frequently cited scholar on legal ethics. schools across the country. In this She has received the American Bar capacity, he served as product counsel Margaret graduated from Stanford Law Association’s Michael Franck award for for the engineering team on issues of School in June 2013. She served as a contributions to the field of professional data use, security and privacy, and also student fellow at the Center for Internet responsibility, the American Bar advised Summit’s school leaders on a & Society and president of the Stanford Foundation’s W. M. Keck Foundation range of legal issues. Law and Technology Association. While Award for distinguished scholarship on a student, she built the game app Law Before joining Stanford, he was a legal ethics, the American Bar Dojo to make studying for law school tenured professor at William and Mary Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award classes more interactive and engaging. Law School. His research focused on for her work on expanding public service She also started the blog Open Law Lab the theory and practice of civil justice, opportunities in law schools, and has to document legal innovation and design and he taught Torts, Employment Law been recognized by the White House as work. Margaret holds an AB from the and Administrative Law. He began his a Champion of Change for a lifetime’s University of Chicago, an MA from academic career at the University of work on increasing access to justice. Central European University in Georgia, and before entering the legal Budapest, and a PhD from Queen’s academy, he served as Counselor and University Belfast in International Chief of Staff to the President of Harvard Politics. University. Earlier in his career, he worked as a law clerk for two federal judges, and as an aide at the White House and U.S. Treasury Department. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, where he was Notes Editor on the Law Review.

11 Center on the Legal Profession Center on the Legal Profession Advisory Forum Members: Faculty Steering Committee: Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President and Nora Freeman Engstrom, Professor of Law and Deane F. General Counsel, Cisco Johnson Faculty Scholar Gordon K. Davidson, Partner, Fenwick & West LLP Ronald J. Gilson, Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Tom DeFilipps, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP Business, Emeritus Steven E. Fineman, Managing Partner, Lieff Cabraser Robert W. Gordon, Professor of Law Heimann & Bernstein LLP Deborah R. Hensler, Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Ora T. Fisher, Vice-Chair, Latham & Watkins LLP Resolution and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Richard Gallagher, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP Lawrence C. Marshall, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Clinical Education, and David and Stephanie Mills Director of David J. F. Gross, Partner, Faegre, Baker, Daniels LLP the Mills Legal Clinic Michael Headley, Managing Principal, Fish & Richardson LLP George Triantis, James and Patricia Kowal Professor of Law Marie Oh Huber, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, eBay Steven R. Lowenthal, Partner, Farella, Braun & Martel LLP R. Bradford Malt, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP Katharine Martin, Chair, Wilson Sonsini David Sanford, Chair, Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP Mitchell Zuklie, Chair, Orrick

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