Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Catholic Legal Institutions and Large Law Firm Partners
In this piece, Where Do Partners Come From?, Professor Theodore Seto traces which law schools do best with respect to producing partners in the National Law Journal's 100 largest law firms. The study has nothing to do with Catholicism, right? Well...if you look at those schools which most grossly outperform their US News ranking (see page 5), with one exception (Miami), they are all Catholic institutions. In order of outperformance: St. John's [tooting horn noise], Villanova, DePaul, Catholic, and Loyola Chicago (and Georgetown, too, seems hugely to outperform its US News position). Explanations? Network effects? Alumni stickiness? Divine intervention in response to the errors of all-too-human US News rankers?
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/08/catholic-legal-institutions-and-large-law-firm-partners.html
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I'm not so sure that this (the production of partners in the 100 largest law firms) is something that we (those concerned about Catholic Legal Institutions and about how to "be" a Catholic lawyer) should necessarily be proud of, given the attendant sacrifices to family, friends, and (at times, sadly) the faith that these super lawyers are required to make to achieve such status. What I would be more proud of are partners at these firms and graduates from these law schools who are trying to change the practice of law itself to be more humane and family friendly. Maybe that is too much of a pipe dream, I'm not sure.