Social Mobility and Hierarchical Structure in Canadian Law Practice*

Reorganisation and Resistance: Legal Professions Confront a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 281-311

  Kay, Fiona M ^a   Hagan, John ^b,c,d  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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