Bill Henderson

Professor Bill Henderson interviews Anonymous Partner. Why did Anonymous Partner decide to go to law school? And what advice would he give his younger self if he could?

What current Biglaw practice does Professor Bill Henderson, an expert on the world of large law firms, find most disturbing?

Is the current Biglaw model unsustainable? Anonymous Partner interviews Professor Bill Henderson, an expert on the world of large law firms.

How can law firms improve their lateral partner hiring processes?

How do 1Ls and 3Ls view law school? Quite differently, as it turns out.

Is the concept of "prestige" ruining the legal profession?

Are law firms using the wrong criteria when it comes to hiring associates?

How is the entry-level legal job market looking? And what do law firms and law schools think of the current approach to on-campus interviewing?

Think that life for Biglaw partners is a bowl of cherries? Think again.

What causes a large, storied law firm to fail? Could part of the problem be too much money, but not enough history or shared values?

Are graduates of elite law schools "too good" for Biglaw? Interestingly enough, they tend not to stick around large law firms. Grads of many lower-ranked schools make partner at higher rates than grads of certain top law schools.

Here’s an argument you don’t hear everyday: law firms who hire the smartest people are hurting their business. That’s the gist of the argument by Bill Henderson, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law who studies the legal profession (and whom we’ve quoted often in these pages). At least if we define “smart” […]

Late last month, we posed a question: Can Stanford overtake Harvard and Yale and become the #1 law school? We consulted our Magic 8 Ball, which gave this answer: “Outlook Not So Good.” And it’s not just the Magic 8 Ball. Professor Bill Henderson, one of the leading academics studying the legal profession, constructed a […]

The American Lawyer’s 2007 Associates Survey is now available, via Law.com. Good stuff! A summary of the survey’s key findings, by editor-in-chief Aric Press, appears here. The WSJ Law Blog collects additional highlights here. It seems that ATL readers and law firm consultants aren’t the only ones predicting pay raises in the reasonably near future. […]