Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession
Building a Better Legal Profession is a national grassroots movement that seeks market-based workplace reforms in large private law firms. The blog is dedicated to helping law firms and lawyers recommit to a legal profession devoted to effective and efficient client service.
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“Less Money, Fewer Hours,” Say Many Summer Associates
The American Lawyer has just published the results of its annual summer associate survey. Overall, the piece argues that summers have a better experience (training, mentorship, etc) at medium-size firms: Students craved juicy assignments, friendly offices and lots of attention, and the firms...
Our Professional Obligations
Judge Baer (SDNY) is NOT happy. Last Friday he released an opinion containing some strong words for the legal profession (HT: WSJ): The legal profession has seen a transformation wherein the naked competition and singular economic focus of the marketplace have begun to infiltrate the practice of...
Wining & Dining
Last weekend’s “Dr. Drug Rep” article in the Times Magazine caught my eye. In it, a doctor explains how he was recruited to become a once-a-week salesman for a large pharmaceutical company (Wyeth), eventually going town to town to speak to other doctors about a particular...
The Strange World of Law Firm Recruiting
Some thoughts on the incredible recruiting system employed by large law firms, by Irene Hahn, a student at Stanford Law School: If you’re looking for evidence of the market power of law students, look no further than the nature of law firm recruiting. It’s a strange place, really. In...
Correction: Greater Asian Representation at Gordon & Rees
In our report on diversity in large Northern California firms, we mistakenly under-reported the number of Asian-American attorneys at Gordon & Rees. As the corrected numbers show, as of February 1, 2007, 9.3% of the firm’s partners and 24.5% of the firm’s associates in San...
wikipedia
we’ve officially arrived. we have our own wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_a_Better_Legal_Profession check it out. add your own information.we’ve officially arrived. we have our own wikipedia page....
Our Market-Based Approach
Some thoughts on our approach by Matt Steilen, a third-year law student at Stanford: To understand Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession you have to appreciate that its approach to changing private practice is based in the market for legal services. While its members are advocates for...
Which firms get an F for diversity?
Find out here, thanks to Diversity, Inc.: Stanford law students are fed up with the lack of diversity within the legal profession. What are [...]Find out here, thanks to Diversity, Inc.: Stanford law students are fed up with the lack of...
Googlers: Looking for our new site?
Over the weekend, we moved our rankings to a new and vastly improved website, which is housed at http://www.BetterLegalProfession.org. Since the site is brand new, there aren’t enough incoming links to it for the website to show up when you type the name of our organization into Google. If...
Cited in the Associated Press
Well, we’re quickly becoming the industry standard for ranking law firms by demographic diversity. We were cited in today’s Associated Press article on the lack of black lawyers appearing before the Supreme Court: Coming soon to the Supreme Court: a rare appearance by a black lawyer....