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Vorenberg, who knew Wilkins when he was an undergraduate in Dunster House and later when he attended the Law School during Vorenberg's tenure as dean, describes Wilkins as "such a dynamic human being that he has an impact in all sorts of directions."
Wilkins explains that his interest in legal ethics stems from the four years he spent working for a small law firm in Washington, D.C., before coming to Harvard.
After graduating from Harvard Law in 1980 and spending two years clerking, first for a second circuit court and then for former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Wilkins took a job with a firm in D.C.
"I really didn't like the level of adversarialness that prevailed in the world of litigation," Wilkins says. "I didn't like not having control of my time and my thoughts. When you're a lawyer, your thoughts are for hire.
Wilkins says that many practicing lawyers are aware of and dissatisfied with the level of unnecessary contention litigation involves, and the dynamic of "fighting over things that everyone knows will be resolved." However, he says, most are too insulated in their profession to be able to critique the situation.