In addition to producing scholarship, teaching classes, and providing service, part of being a law professor entails managing and building multiple institutional relationships – formally and informally – with students, faculty and staff. Interactions with each of these constituencies can present challenges for which there is no law school handbook. For example, students often turn to faculty with personal and career challenges in addition to educational questions. Faculty and staff do the same, sometimes explicitly asking a colleague – a junior colleague – to intervene on their behalf. Navigating these and other demands is part of the “shadow work” law professors invariably are called upon to perform. At the same time, this “shadow work” can present important opportunities – such as building a relationship with the development officer - which may provide an important prism through which to see the law school and may even lead to resources in the form of grants. In this session, the facilitators will discuss the many opportunities and challenges presented by the important, if informal, institutional relationships law faculty build.