2009 Law & Society Annual Meeting, May 28-31, Denver, Colorado
Non-Paper Panels
- Author Meets Readers: Richard Abel's Lawyers in the Dock: Learning from Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings
- Roundtable Discussion, "Effects of the FInancial Crisis on Corporate Practice," Tanina Rostain Moderator
Papers Assigned to Panels
Panel 1: Careers in Transition: The After the JD Lawyers After Seven Years in Practice
Session 70133, Discussant: TBA
- Joyce Sterling (Denver Law) & Gabriele Plickert (ABF / Harvard Law), "Searching for Evidence of an 'Opt-Out' Revolution among Women Lawyers: What is the Evidence after Seven Years?"
- Ronit Dinovitzer (Toronto Sociology) et al., "The Early Careers of Lawyers of Color: Where are They Working and What are They Doing?"
- Bryant Garth (Southwestern Law) et al., "Legal Careers and Geographic Mobility"
Panel 2: Global Transformations of Legal Actors and Institutions: New Faces of Authority
Session 70134, Discussant: Alfred Aman (Suffolk Law)
- Mindy Lazarus Black (Temple Anthrology), "Journey to the U.S.: Foreign Lawyers in American LL.M. Programs"
- Felice Batlan (Chicago Kent), "The Imperialism SEC?: Foreign Policy and the Internationalization of the Securities Market"
- Carole Silver (Georgetown Law), "Agents of Globalization in Law"
- David Nersessian (Harvard Law), "Core Competencies for Global Lawyers? Emerging Frameworks for Value Added Networks and Human Capital"
Panel 3: Careers and Lawyer Mobility
Session 70136, Discussant: Lauren Robel (Indiana Law)
- David Chambers (Michigan Law) & Terry Adams (Michigan Law), "the Evolution of First Jobs for University of Michigan Law School Graduates 1952-2001"
- David Chambers (Michigan Law) & Terry Adams (Michigan Law), "Geographic Mobility of Lawyers over Time"
- David Nersessian (Harvard Law), "What's the Bang for the Harvard Buck? HLS Graduates and AJD Lawyers -- A Comparison"
- Ashish Nanda (Harvard Law) & Young-Kyu Kim (Harvard Law), "Pattern of Movement of Law Firm Partners Across Firms."
Panel 4: Providing Economic Value to Clients: A View From Both Sides of the Hemispheres
Session 70139, Discussant: Lynn Mather (SUNY Buffalo)
- Joanne Martin (ABF) & Stephen Daniels (ABF), "Reputation, Specialization and the Referral of Cases: Is It Just About the Money?"
- Victor Fleischer (Illinois/Colorado Law), "Regulatory Craftmanship"
- Eli Wald (Denver Law), "Large Law Firms and Investment Banks"
- Scott Peppet (Colorado Law), "Family Enterprise Counseling"
- Clark Cunningham (Georgia State University Law), "What Clients Want From Their Lawyers: Are Big Firm Clients Different?"
Panel 5: Pro Bono, Access to Justice, The Differences that Lawyers Make
Session 70140, Discussant: Michele Landis Dauber (Stanford Law)
- Scott Cummings (UCLA Law) & Deborah Rhode (Stanford Law), "Public Interest Law: Sectoral Analysis of Opportunities and Constraints"
- Joanne Martin (ABF) & Stephen Daniels (ABF), "Losing the Largess: The Challenge for Pro Bono in a Down Market"
- Susan Harrell (Univ. of West Florida Legal Studies) & Patricia Posey-Goodwin (Univ. of West Florida Nursing), "Using the Medical Profession as a Model for Change in the Legal Profession: Towards Meeting the Unmet Need for Legal Services"
- Laura Beth Nielsen (ABF, NW Sociology), Robert Nelson (ABF, NW Sociology), Ryon Lancaster (Chicago Sociology), "The Determinants and Effects of Lawyer Representation in Employment Discrimination Litigation."
Panel 6: Diversity in the Legal Profession: A Global Perspective
Session 70141, Discussant: Ken Dau-Schmidt (Indiana Law)
- Elizabeth Gorman (Virginia Sociology), "Where Do Minority Lawyers Thrive? Firm Characteristics and Minority Representation"
- Fiona Kay (Queen's University, Sociology), "Breaking Bonds to Building Bridges: Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the Legal Profession"
- Ethan Michelson (Indiana Sociology), "Gender Discrimination in the Legal Profession: Is the Chinese Bar Exceptionally Hostile to Women?"
- Richard Sander (UCLA Law), "A Pattern of Convergence: Longitudinal Analysis of Gender in the Legal Profession"
Panel 7: Lawyer Self-Regulation / Legal Ethics I
Session 70143, Discussant: David McGowan (University of San Diego Law)
- Leslie Levin (U Conn Law), "The Impact of Psychological Biases on Lawyers' Ethical Decisionmaking"
- Kimberly Kirkland (Franklin Pierce Law), [placeholder for paper on consciousness of law firm general counsel/ethics counsel]
- Brad Wendel (Cornell Law) & Alice Woolley (Univ of Calgary), "Legal Ethics and Moral Character"
- Deborah Rhode (Stanford Law), "Promoting Ethical Practice in Law Firms"
Panel 8: Lawyer Self-Regulation / Legal Ethics II
Session 70146, Discussant: Carroll Seron (UC Irvine Sociology)
- Linda Haller (Melbourne Law), "Bringing Lawyer Competence Issues within the Disciplinary Frame: the Australian experiment"
- Mitt Regan (Georgetown Law), "Advocates, Gatekeepers, and Professional Regulation: The Fitful Evolution of Tax Practice."
- Tanina Rostain (New York Law School), "Lawyer Self-Regulation: Challenges in the 21st Century"
- Hilary Sommerlad (Leeds Metropolitan), "Anomie in Practice: Lawyers' Ethics in Boom and Bust"
Panel 9: Economic and Organizational Structure of Law Firms
Session 70147, Discussant: Marc Galanter (Wisconsin Law / LSE)
- Elizabeth Chambliss (New York Law School), "New Sources of Managerial Authority in Large Law Firms"
- William Henderson (Indiana Law) & Anthony Kearns (LPLC, Austrialia), "The Sustainable Law Firms Project: Report on Negotiations Among Stakeholders"
- Larry Ribstein (Illinois Law), "Law Firm as Firm: The Evolution of Law Firms from a 'Theory of the Firm' Perspective"
- Robert Rosen (Miami Law), "Managing Information Technology/Managing Law"
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