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Current Research:
Prelaw advisors at undergraduate institutions serve a vital role in higher education and the legal profession, guiding people through one of the most consequential decisions of their lives: whether to pursue a law degree. Their advisees come to them with questions about where to apply, how to present themselves as applicants, and where to attend. Advisors perform this work under significant institutional constraints, such as a lack of time, funding, or other support.
This project examined the relevance of law school alumni networks to graduates鈥 careers. Two studies investigated intraorganizational and interorganizational influences on graduates鈥 careers; an ongoing third study investigates how these influences vary by gender, race/ethnicity, and school attended.
Although law schools have seen rising representation of diverse racial/ethnic groups among students, minorities continue to represent disproportionately small percentages of lawyers within large corporate law firms. Prior research on the nature and causes of minority underrepresentation in such firms has been sparse. In this research project, we examined variation across large U.S.