Critics of the policy-making process argue that private interest groups exert too much influence on the decisions of government, but only rarely has this proposition been examined systematically. The
Revised edition of a work originally published in 1983 (Russell Sage Foundation). The authors draw on interviews with some 800 lawyers to analyze the allocation of status, power, and economic reward i
Over the past several decades, the number of lawyers in large cities has doubled, women have entered the bar at an unprecedented rate, and the scale of firms has greatly expanded. This immense growth
