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Theorizing Billable Hours, Theresa M. Beiner
Theorizing Billable Hours, Theresa M. Beiner
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This article looks at the ethical and diversity implications of high billable hour requirements. While corporate counsel have increasingly demanded a diverse legal workforce and emphasized the need to lower the costs of outside counsel, law firms have not responded to these concerns in a manner that is producing results. Instead, women continue to drop out of law firm practice at higher rates than their male counterparts and the costs of legal services remain high. High billable hour requirements exacerbate both these problems and have implications as well for ethical lawyering. Using data from a variety of disciplines, the article …
What Do You Do When Nothing Seems To Work: An Evaluation And Suggested Approach To Addressing The Diversity Issue In Legal Profession, Michael Hunter Schwartz, Jb Smiley Jr.
What Do You Do When Nothing Seems To Work: An Evaluation And Suggested Approach To Addressing The Diversity Issue In Legal Profession, Michael Hunter Schwartz, Jb Smiley Jr.
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50 More Years Of Cleo Scholars: The Past, The Present, And A Vision For The Future, Michael Hunter Schwartz
50 More Years Of Cleo Scholars: The Past, The Present, And A Vision For The Future, Michael Hunter Schwartz
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