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The Making of Lawyers' Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession

The Making of Lawyers' Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession - Paperback

by Robert L. Nelson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert L. NelsonSeries:Chicago Law and SocietyPublish date:2023-10-03Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226828923ISBN-10:226828921UPC:9780226828923Book Category:Law, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Legal Profession, DiscriminationSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 inchesWeight:1.3823Product ID:SC6X245P18

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226828923ISBN-10:226828921UPC:9780226828923Book Category:Law, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Legal Profession, DiscriminationSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 inchesWeight:1.3823Product ID:SC6X245P18
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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