Stanford Law School Launches New Study of the Legal Profession
With funding from the Sidley Austin Foundation, Stanford Law School plans to conduct a multi-year study of the legal profession.
It is intended to help law firms and law schools understand what they need to do to retain their leadership role in a rapidly transforming legal industry, according to a Stanford press release published by Business Wire.
“The study will be empirically-based and bring together scholars from multiple disciplines to assess the state of the profession and think through—with practitioners, where the profession is going and what implications future trends have for law firm management, public policy, and legal education,” says Deborah Hensler.
An academic who focuses on dispute resolution and serves as associate dean for graduate studies at Stanford, she will lead the effort along with professor Ronald Gilson, a former corporate and securities practitioner.
