The Constituencies of Elite Urban Lawyers

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ID4084852
AutoresJohn P Heinz (0000-0002-1344-2591), Edward O Laumann, Robert L Nelson, Paul S Schnorr
Año1997
Volumen31
Número3
Páginas441-472
Fecha de publicación1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLaw & Society Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3054042
OpenAlexW1986199279
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas8

This study analyzes Chicago lawyers' networks of relationships with a selected set of prominent practitioners, drawing on 1994-95 interviews with 788 randomly selected respondents. Since the same technique was used 20 years earlier, the research sheds light on the extent to which the constituencies of elite Chicago lawyers have changed. The network is organized in three principal sectors-liberals, trial lawyers, and corporate lawyers. The structure implies a lack of integration within the bar. Minorities and women are now more widely dispersed across the segments of the network than they were in 1975, but they still have relatively few connections in the corporate sector of the bar

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