Lawyer Attrition

Women graduates of elite law schools seem to be leaving the law earlier than their peers from lower-tier schools.

Columnist Renwei Chung highlights findings from the annual Vault/MCCA Law Firm Diversity Survey.

It’s NFL Draft time, the culmination of months of research and often years of watching top player prospects all in the hopes of making the right decision on draft day and assembling the right athletes for a shot at a championship season.

Often, associates who know that they will not become a partner seem content to just put in their time, try to keep their head down, and collect a paycheck while waiting for their firm to announce their intended bonuses. They rationalize that they know they will leave anyway, so why bend over backwards for the firm? Tom Wallerstein proposes the answer to this question....

The good folks over at Building A Better Legal Profession — a national grassroots movement that we’ve written about before, which seeks market-based workplace reforms in large private law firms — have updated their online directory and rankings of law firms with new information for 2011. The updated rankings shed light on which top law […]