What Happened to the Class of 2010? Empirical Evidence of Structural Change in the Legal Profession

Merritt, Deborah Jones

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2577272

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“…These issues have influenced other professions that require an entry-level professional doctorate, such as individuals who pursue a law degree. Only 87.6% of graduates from the law classes of 2010 were able to find employment, with 21% of them working in a field that did not require a law degree [ 13 ].…”

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Selectivity of physiotherapist programs in the United States does not differ by institutional funding source or research activity level

Riley

Covington

Landry

et al. 2016

J Educ Eval Health Prof

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Purpose:This study aimed to compare selectivity characteristics among institution characteristics to determine differences by institutional funding source (public vs. private) or research activity level (research vs. non-research).Methods:This study included information provided by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) and the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy. Data were extracted from all students who graduated in 2011 from accredited physical therapy programs in the United States. The public and private designations of the institutions were extracted directly from the classifications from the ‘CAPTE annual accreditation report,’ and high and low research activity was determined based on Carnegie classifications. The institutions were classified into four groups: public/research intensive, public/non-research intensive, private/research intensive, and private/non-research intensive. Descriptive and comparison analyses with post hoc testing were performed to determine whether there were statistically significant differences among the four groups.Results:Although there were statistically significant baseline grade point average differences among the four categorized groups, there were no significant differences in licensure pass rates or for any of the selectivity variables of interest.Conclusion:Selectivity characteristics did not differ by institutional funding source (public vs. private) or research activity level (research vs. non-research). This suggests that the concerns about reduced selectivity among physiotherapy programs, specifically the types that are experiencing the largest proliferation, appear less warranted.

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Selectivity of physiotherapist programs in the United States does not differ by institutional funding source or research activity level

Riley

Covington

Landry

et al. 2016

J Educ Eval Health Prof

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“…However, how this process fits into knowledge application and the overall sequence of changes in professional work over time is under‐studied. Filling this knowledge gap is particularly important in helping professions that are going through significant structural changes (Merritt, 2015; Susskind, 2013).…”

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“…The unrelenting decline in law school enrollment and the dismal career prospects of law graduates in the US have made headlines for some time (Bronner, 2013; Olson and Segal, 2014). Law scholars have pointed to two primary forces driving these changes: (1) continuously decreasing knowledge barriers, facilitated by the deregulation of the profession, have allowed people with less or no legal training (e.g., paralegals or accountants) to do the work once completed by lawyers; (2) legal knowledge embedded in computer programs has reduced the need for human workers (Campbell et al., 2012; Merritt, 2015).…”

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A life‐cycle perspective of professionalism in services

Lawrence

Zhang

Heineke

2016

J of Ops Management

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In this article, we develop a professional service life cycle model to describe the changes in professional work over time. We explore the drivers of these changes through an in-depth longitudinal case study of one specific professional service e Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) consulting. We focus on understanding the evolutionary path of LEED consulting work as a result of its knowledge base, community and response to market and technological forces. Case evidence demonstrates an inherent tension between innovation and commodification resulting from multiple demands through various developmental stages. The life cycle model has important implications for value-creation in professional service operations management. First, it broadens the theoretical investigation of professional services to consider all processes and people along the professional continuum e from most innovative to commodified. Coordinated effort along the professional continuum is the key to delivering both effectiveness and efficiency. Second, proactively managing the transitions along the evolutionary path is both possible and desirable. Standardization and specialization improve talent allocation and boost future innovation. We suggest future opportunities to test and enrich the model.

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“…This “Great Recession” ultimately distressed the legal profession in the United States, drying up demand for high-end legal services resulting in thousands of layoffs and causing corporate clients to demand lower billable rates over a number of years (Harper, 2013). These initial effects have given way to longer-term changes in the industry – changes that the legal profession still struggles with nowadays (Merritt, 2015; Wald, 2010). Among the many lingering challenges are the disaggregation of legal services and the oversupply of lawyers (Merritt, 2015), as well as the rising need to incorporate time-saving technological innovation in response to client demands (Sheppard, 2015).…”

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“…These initial effects have given way to longer-term changes in the industry – changes that the legal profession still struggles with nowadays (Merritt, 2015; Wald, 2010). Among the many lingering challenges are the disaggregation of legal services and the oversupply of lawyers (Merritt, 2015), as well as the rising need to incorporate time-saving technological innovation in response to client demands (Sheppard, 2015).…”

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Transformational leadership and attorneys' performance in law firms

Phillips

Kang

Choi

et al. 2020

IJEBR

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PurposeThis study examines how transformational leadership on the part of senior attorneys in law firms may affect their subordinate attorneys' performance in an industry experiencing both distinctive leadership challenges and widespread economic upheaval. Specifically, our multilevel theoretical model attempts to capture the moderated mediation relationships between transformational leadership, innovative climate, entrepreneurial orientation, and individual performance.Design/methodology/approachThe study employs of a multilevel path analysis to examine the earlier described conceptual model utilizing primary data collected from 484 attorneys at 31 professional service firms.FindingsThe authors used multilevel path analysis to examine the existence and the extent of a multilevel mediation effect. They found that a firm's entrepreneurial orientation mediates the relationship between supervising attorneys' transformational leadership and individual attorneys' performances. The authors also found that the indirect effect of supervising attorneys' transformational leadership on individual attorneys' performances through entrepreneurial orientation is conditional on the degree of firm innovative climate.Originality/valueThe authors draw on theories of social learning to construct a dual-level theoretical model that connects domains within the leadership and entrepreneurship literatures. It does so by examining the relationships between the law firms' supervising attorneys' change-oriented leadership and their subordinate attorneys' billable hours during a period of severe economic disruption.

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What Happened to the Class of 2010? Empirical Evidence of Structural Change in the Legal Profession

Abstract: Those colleagues sometimes disagree with one another, as well as with me, which made their comments even more helpful.

Cited by 7 publications

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Selectivity of physiotherapist programs in the United States does not differ by institutional funding source or research activity level

Selectivity of physiotherapist programs in the United States does not differ by institutional funding source or research activity level

A life‐cycle perspective of professionalism in services

Transformational leadership and attorneys' performance in law firms

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