Building a Better Legal Profession, a grass-roots movement founded by a group of law students, has released the results of a survey it conducted on diversity at big law firms.
“The legal employment market suffers from imperfect information,” the students write on their new blog. “Law students considering large law firms don’t have enough information about their future employers. And much of what they DO have is of very low quality. Firms exploit this lack of accurate information to sell their diversity and work/life programs with questionable claims.” To counter the flimflam, BBLP graded the firms based on their hiring, promotion, and retention of attorneys by race, sexual orientation, and gender.
Extra: Linda Hirshman, the author of A Woman’s Guide to Law School, comments on the statistics concerning the success rate of women in a post at Open University.
