Making of Lawyers' Careers

Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, Bryant G. Garth, Joyce S. Sterling, David B. Wilkins, Meghan Dawe, Ethan Michelson

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An unprecedented account of social stratification within the US legal profession.How do race, class, gender, and law school status condition the career trajectories of lawyers? And how do professionals then navigate these parameters? The Making of Lawyers’ Careers provides an unprecedented account of the last two decades of the legal profession in the US, offering a data-backed look at the structure of the profession and the inequalities that early-career lawyers face across race, gender, and class distinctions. Starting in 2000, the authors collected over 10,000 survey responses from more than 5,000 lawyers, following these lawyers through the first twenty years of their careers. They also interviewed more than two hundred lawyers and drew insights from their individual stories, contextualizing data with theory and close attention to the features of a market-driven legal profession. Their findings show that lawyers’ careers both reflect and reproduce inequalities within society writ large. They also reveal how individuals exercise agency despite these constraints.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-03
Mått152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieChicago Series in Law and Society
Antal sidor416
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226828923

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Robert L. Nelson is the MacCrate Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and professor of sociology and law at Northwestern University. Ronit Dinovitzer is professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. Bryant G. Garth is Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. Joyce S. Sterling is professor of law emeritus at the University of Denver College of Law. David B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School. Meghan Dawe is a resident research fellow at the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. Ethan Michelson is professor of sociology and law at Indiana University.

Note on AuthorshipPart 1 Introduction1 Introduction: The Making of Lawyers’ Careers2 From the Golden Age to the Age of Disruption: Setting the Context for Lawyers’ Careers in the New MillenniumPart 2 The Structure of Lawyers’ Careers3 Change and Continuity in the Legal Field: From Walled-Off Hemispheres to More or Less Mixed Hierarchical Sequences4 Race, Class, and Gender in the Structuring of Lawyers’ Early Careers5 Two Hemispheres Revisited: Fields of Law, Practice Settings, and Client TypesPart 3 The Narratives of Lawyers’ Careers6 Moving Up and Moving On: Careers in Law Firms7 Rethinking the Solo Practitioner8 Moving Inside: Practicing Law in Business Organizations9 Commitment, Careerism, and Stratification: Careers in Government, Nonprofits, and Public Interest OrganizationsPart 4 Inequalities of Race and Gender10 White Spaces: The Enduring Racialization of American Law Firms, with Vitor M. Dias11 Student Debt and Cumulative (Dis)Advantage in Lawyers’ Careers12 Hegemonic Masculinity, Parenthood, and Gender Inequality, with Andreea MogosanuPart 5 Public Roles and Private Lives13 Dualities of Politics, Public Service, and Pro Bono in Lawyers’ Careers, with Ioana Sendroiu14 Lawyers’ Satisfaction and the Making of Lawyers’ Careers, with Ioana SendroiuPart 6 Conclusion15 Conclusion: Structure and Agency in the Making of Lawyers’ CareersAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex