Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession
Building a Better Legal Profession is a national, law student-driven grassroots movement that seeks workplace reforms in large private law firms. The blog and site post self-reported data on billable hours, pro bono participation and diversity. The blog strives to "ensure that practicing law does not mean giving up a commitment to family, community, and dedicated service to clients."
Author: Co-president Andrew Bruck and co-founder Andrew Canter are the blog's contacts.
Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Lawyer Pay • Work/Life Balance • Law Firms • Law Practice Management • Diversity • Law Students • Law Student
Recent Posts from Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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 [...]
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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…
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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…