This week's Legal Speak features Law.com Legal Education Editor Karen Sloan's conversation with  Yih-Hsien Shen, Associate Director of J.D. Advising at Harvard Law School, about how law firms are adapting their summer associate programs during the pandemic and what lessons they learned from last summer.

Yih-Hsien Shen, associate director of J.D. advising at Harvard Law School. Courtesy photo

Shen discusses the benefits and drawbacks of virtual programs, which allow summer associates to live where they want and can actually increase their ability to get involved in multiple projects. But the change comes with a big downside in that it can be significantly harder to get a real sense of a firm's culture from across a computer screen.