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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.
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.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org This sweeping book details the extent to which
the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal
hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the
conjoined global histories of law and social change from the Middle
Ages to today. It examines the global proliferation of large
corporate law firms-a US invention-along with US legal education
approaches geared toward those corporate law firms. This
neoliberal-inspired revolution attacks complacent legal oligarchies
in the name of America-inspired modernism. Drawing on the combined
histories of the legal profession, imperial transformations, and
the enduring and conservative role of cosmopolitan elites at the
top of legal hierarchies, the book details case studies in India,
Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and China to explain how
interconnected legal histories are stories of both revolution and
reproduction. Theoretically and methodologically ambitious, it
offers a wholly new approach to studying interrelated fields across
time and geographies.
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