Law and leadership

Journal of Legal Education

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 596-614

  Heineman Jr , Ben W ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wilmer Hale ^*

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References (21)

1. Anthony T. Kronman, The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession (Cambridge, Mass., 1993).
2. Id. at 2.
3. Yale Law School, 〈http://law.yale.edu〉 (last visited Mar. 15, 2007).
4. Joe Klein, Politics Lost: How American Democracy was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid (New York, 2006).
5. th Year Career Development Survey, Classes 1996-2000 (Oct. 2005), available at 〈http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/CDO_Public/cdo- summary_memo_96_oo.pdf〉 (last visited Mar. 26, 2007). Summary findings of the longitudinal study of Yale Law graduates from the 1970s to the present were presented by lead researcher, Deborah Cantrell, at the Fall 2006 Yale Law School Alumni Week-End (hereinafter Cantrell Study) (on file with author, Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, Yale Law School).
6. See Cantrell Study, supra note 5.
7. Kathleen T. Bartlett, Dean, Duke University Law School, Remarks at the Equal Justice Works Awards Dinner (October 19, 2006).
8. Kronman, The Lost Lawyer, supra note 1, at 3, 354 (stating that the legal profession is facing an "identity crisis of immense-if largely unacknowledged-proportions").
9. See, e.g., Elaine McArdle, Bridge-Building For the Future: A First of its Kind Research Center Readies Lawyers for a Changing Profession, Harv. L. Bulletin 17 (Fall 2006).
10. Ronit Dinovitzer et al., Nat'l Ass'n for Law Placement and Am. B. Found., After the JD: First Results of a National Study of Legal Career (2004), available at 〈www.abf-sociolegal.org/afterjd/ajd.html〉 (last visited Mar. 26, 2007). On average, surveyed graduates held about 3 jobs, with 45 percent having at least 4 jobs, and almost a quarter having 5 jobs.
11. Cantrell Study, supra note 5.
12. Only 3.4 percent of the graduates are employed in a tantalizing "other" category in Job 1. But, interestingly, about 15 percent are in the "other" category by Job 4 and Job 5. Cantrell Study, supra note 5.
13. Compare William M. Sullivan et al., The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law 6 (San Francisco, 2007) (making a similar recommendation), with Kronman, The Lost Lawyer, supra note 1, at 120 (taking a very cramped view of the non-legal case method used in business schools).
14. Yale School of Management, Yale SOM Core: A New Curriculum, available at 〈http://mba.yale.edu/MBA/curriculum/som_core.shtml〉 (last visited Mar. 16, 2007).
15. John Murray Brown and Sarah Murray, FT Report-International Public Sector Recruitment: A Merging of Cultures, Fin. Times, Nov. 16, 2006, at 1.
16. Yale SOM Core, supra note 13.
17. Laura Kalman, Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations 312 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2005, Kronman, The Lost Lawyer, supra note 1, at 353 (Law schools "now encour-age a style of scholarly work that is increasingly remote from-even hostile to-the concerns of practicing lawyers.").
18. See, e.g., Harry R. Lewis, Excellence Without a Soul: How A Great University Forgot Education (New York, 2006).
19. Kronman, The Lost Lawyer, supra note 1, at 155 ("ensemble of dispositional attitudes"), 159, 161, 356 ("character"), 367, 373.
20. Id. at 375.
21. Id. at 7.