The Myth of Meritocracy: Evaluating the Role of Box Credentials in Colorado Law Firm Hiring Practices

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelina Zelaya Kastroll
Keyword(s):  
Hiring Practices ◽  
Law Firm

scholarly journals Academic Identity and Communities of Practice: Narratives of Social Science Academics Career Decisions in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 388
Author(s):  
Gregory Siy Ching
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
Hiring Practices ◽  
Role Conflicts ◽  
The Social

Academic identity is an important aspect of organizing an academic career. An academic identity is distinct and unique and can be defined as the core attitudes that determine how individuals approach the concept of work. In the current era of neoliberalism, changes to university governance in Taiwan have transformed working conditions and hiring practices in academia. Inevitably, role conflicts have emerged, and work stress within higher education institutions has increased. The current study summarizes the narratives of nine academics from the social sciences. The study is anchored in the concept that academic identity formation is rooted in the doctoral education stage. Using a qualitative narrative inquiry lens, interactions between different communities of practice during the doctoral education stage are analyzed, along with later career decisions and the role communities of practice play in those decisions. The findings show that doctoral mentors and fellows all contributed to the formation of a core academic identity, while later career decisions were equally affected by neoliberal policies. It is hoped that by recognizing the role of academic identity, administrators may be able to influence how academics adapt amidst the competing pressures within the academe.

Frames

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
New Work ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
New Firms ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Indian Law ◽  
Ideal Worker

This chapter explores the role of institutional novelty in moderating the experience of gender. It shows how the emergence of the Indian elite law firm has been uniquely shaped by the newness of the work and the organizational structure — as well as a new, neoliberal workforce not found in other professional firms of similar status. As new firms doing new work, these elite law firms are indeed advantaged by being able to escape strong preconceived notions of work and identity. In addition, the newness of the law schools that socialize these firms' workers contribute to the firms' multi-layered advantage, an advantage not enjoyed by other firms that are similarly structured by globalization but that draw their workforce from more long-established educational institutions. Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates how globalization and class come together to renegotiate traditional assumptions of gender and the framework of an ideal worker. It argues that the gender outcomes in these firms result not from a movement for gender equality, but instead from the emergence of the Indian law firm as a new site of high-prestige global labor.

A Shiny Surface and a Tainted Past

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Öhrström
Keyword(s):  
Close Contact ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Therapeutic Window ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Do No Harm ◽  
The Us ◽  
Main Component ◽  
The Right

The day Erin Brockovich was driving in Reno and got hit by another driver, brought her in close contact not only with the bumper of the other car, but eventually also with the US legal system, and this would change her life completely. The day Steven Soderbergh asked Julia Roberts to play the part of Erin Brockovich in the film with the same name didn’t really change her life, one presumes, but it would show the world’s moviegoers and critics that the star and Academy Award winning actress of 1990 was really back on the right track. What is the link between these events? The answer is the element chromium. It was chromium that made law-firm clerk Brockovich start a David-against-Goliath struggle with the California energy conglomerate Pacific Gas and Electric Company, that made director Soderbergh make the blockbuster movie that gave Roberts an Oscar for best female actress in 2000 and revitalized her career. I will try not to spoil the picture for those who have not seen it, because it is well worth watching, but the fact that the good guys win in the end is probably not a surprise anyway. However, the role of chromium in this play is not at all evident. And are the good guys really the good guys? There is usually a proper amount of, and a proper place for, everything, and this includes the elements of the periodic table. The main component in steel, a material which has a role to play in this story, is iron, and while we sometimes have too low a level of this element in our bodies, too much of it will kill us. The same goes for chromium: we can’t live without it. Or so it was thought until very recently. It was supposed to help us to break down and metabolize sugars, and thus ‘chromium deficiency’ could possibly be related to diabetes. Now, while low levels seems to do no harm, there are still possibilities of a therapeutic window—that is, concentrations where it may do some good—but it does not any longer seem to be considered an essential element, although official consensus on this has not yet been proclaimed.

Remarks by Sally March

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 191-192
Author(s):  
Sally March
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
New World ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
American Law ◽  
Brave New World

Well, I moved to London thirty years ago, and I joined a small American law firm that was about to open in Moscow, to take advantage of the new opportunities for foreign companies to invest in what was then the Soviet Union. And I was not a Russian lawyer, and I didn't have any particular expertise in this field, but I found myself playing the role of the bridge. I was the bridge between the needs of the Western client and the abilities of the local Russian lawyers, and they were a bridge, a cultural as well as a legal bridge, for the clients to understand this brave new world in which they were trying to do business.

An Evolving Landscape: From Information Gatekeeper to Knowledge Professional

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Bradbury ◽  
Jon Beaumont ◽  
Tim Barlow
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Career Progression ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Management Group ◽  
Information Gatekeeper ◽  
Information Skills ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
The Subject

AbstractThis paper is based on a presentation of the same title given by Jane Bradbury, Head of Knowledge and Information at the law firm Slaughter and May, at the inaugural seminar of the BIALL Knowledge Management Group on 9th May 2016. The article has been compiled by the other two authors, Jon Beaumont and Tim Barlow, and so not all of the opinions expressed are attributable to Jane. The authors are also indebted to Anne Ashdown, of recruitment firm tfpl, who presented at the same seminar on the subject of recruitment for legal knowledge management (KM) roles and whose observations are also incorporated in the article. The paper considers the increasing impact of KM on the work of library and information professionals in law firms. It discusses the related role of professional support lawyers (PSLs), the knowledge “hot topics” which are driving evolution of the profession, the transferability of information skills, and opportunities for development and career progression beyond the traditional boundaries of library and information management.

Good Breeding? Hybrid Professionals and the Thriving Library – a Law Firm Perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Stanfield
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Professional Support ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
Information Professional

AbstractKate Stanfield has based this article on a presentation given at the 2008 Online meeting. She considers the potential role of the non-traditionally trained information professional within a law firm information service. Such roles include professional support lawyers, para-legals and business development and IT professionals.

scholarly journals Managing in an economic crisis: The role of market orientation in an international law firm

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 2693-2700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Lettice ◽  
Markus Tschida ◽  
Ingo Forstenlechner
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Law Firm

Evaluating and Promoting an In-House Information Team

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunstan Speight
Keyword(s):  
Law Firm ◽  
Library Staff

AbstractMuch has been written and discussed about the outsourcing of library staff. In the following article, Dunstan Speight, Library Manager at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, looks at the role of in-house information teams. Although written from the perspective of the manager of a team of researchers in a City law firm, the author hopes that elements of his experience will have a relevance to other sectors and team structures.

Local Law Society Libraries

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Martin
Keyword(s):  
Law Firm ◽  
Very Old ◽  
Local Law ◽  
Role Of Information ◽  
Information Manager

‘You'll be bored’ they told me, when I left my post in a busy law firm library and took up the role of Information Manager at the Bristol Law Society, surrounded by leather-bound books and cherry-wood shelves. I think it was a problem of perception: what would I do with my time without having partners demanding their research by yesterday, if not sooner? Would people really want me to provide very old cases all day long? Just what exactly was the local law society library for?

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