Current Research

Associate Attrition
A national benchmark study of associate attrition rates that will provide comparative data related to retention of entry-level associates as it correlates with age, summer program experience, geographic ties and prior professional work experience; and retention of lateral associates correlated with age, geographic ties, and hiring circumstance (i.e. individual hire or acquisition of attorney group.) Anticipated release date: August 2003.

Attitudes and Expectations of New Era Attorneys
A national study of law students and junior associates to identify their values, aspirations and expectations. This benchmark study is scheduled to be replicated every three years. Anticipated release date: November 2003.

Public Service in a Time of Crisis
Public Service in a Time of Crisis, is a study and documentation effort focused on recording and quantifying the response of lawyers in New York to the needs arising from the events of September 11th. The report will be produced in print, electronic format and with video vignettes is expected to be the only comprehensive study that will quantify the extraordinary response of the greater New York legal community to the tragic events of September 11th. Anticipated release date: September 2003.

After the JD: The First 10 Years
After the JD is a longitudinal study that will follow two cohorts of law school graduates in the first ten years of their careers. It is the largest and most ambitious study ever undertaken of the legal profession, and it aims to create a definitive picture of how the early careers of lawyers develop in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The focus of the study is to define and explain the multiple factors that affect if not determine the career trajectories of law graduates. Initial findings anticipated release date: August 2003.