This article tells the story of Community Lawyering in action at the Boulders Apartments located in Provo, Utah. Community Lawyering at Brigham Young University Law School provides law students with a clinical opportunity to practice collaborative justice among low-income residents. We do this...

This article discusses the phenomenon of female leadership and the dual roles associated with female leaders in the United States by examining statistics concerning women in leadership roles and coverage of the 2008 Presidential election. It goes on to explore situations when women leaders may...

During the last several decades, the legal profession's definition of a "large" corporate law firm has gradually shifted. The rise of mega-firms, with broad geographic platforms and highly sophisticated, specialized, and profitable practice groups, has been expedited by the steady erosion of the...

This paper reviews and analyzes extant data on the effective hourly rates achieved from contingency fee cases and reports detailed analyses of data from a survey of Wisconsin contingency fee practitioners. The analyses emphasize the need to examine returns across sets of cases rather than on a...

This paper provides the first empirical test of the Portia Hypothesis: females with masculine monikers are more successful in legal careers. Utilizing South Carolina microdata, we look for correlation between an individual's advancement to a judgeship and his/her name's masculinity, which we...

This chapter in a book edited by Michael Asimow, "Lawyers in Your Living Room: Lawyers on TV" (ABA Press, 2009) explores the treatment of lawyers' ethics (dilemmas, choices and ethics violations) on modern television programs about the law, including classics like Perry Mason and The Defenders...

The American legal profession is at a critical inflection point, one that will likely result in dramatic changes in the ways in which consumers access legal guidance and the manner in which lawyers and others deliver it. Chat-enabled artificial intelligence, algorithmic decision-making,...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) entrusted the general counsel (GC) of public companies with overseeing a new system of internal controls and reporting misconduct at their firms. I use a hand-collected dataset tracking the backgrounds of inhouse lawyers to argue that SOX increased the value...