AJD News
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2007
- Dinovitzer, Ronit and Robert Nelson. 2007. “The Trajectories of Legal Careers.” Invited presentation to the Law Firm Working Group, October 12, Chicago, IL.
2008
- Wilkins, David. (February, 2008). "After the JD: Preliminary Evidence from a Ten-Year Longitudinal Study of Lawyer Careers." Presented at the Dean's Lecture at Yale Law School.
- Dinovitzer, Ronit and Bryant G. Garth. 2008. “Pro Bono as an Elite Strategy in Early Careers: Examining Differences in Pro Bono Investment.” Invited presentation to a workshop on Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession, April 25, Buffalo, NY.
CONFERENCES
2007
- Sterling, Joyce. Presentation on After the JD, for AALS Research Committee Session. Annual Meeting of AALS, Washington, D.C., January 2007.
- Sterling, Joyce, Bryant G. Garth, and Ronit Dinovitzer. 2007. “A Contemporary Picture of the Practice of Law: Views from the Inside.” Presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, July 25, Berlin, Germany.
2008
- Dinovitzer, Ronit. 2008. “Empirical Research Strategies for Understanding the Legal Profession: Examples from the After the JD Study.” Presented at the Association for American Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 4, New York, NY.
- Nelson, Robert L., Ronit Dinovitzer, Joyce Sterling, and Gita Z. Wilder. (April, 2008). "After the JD: The Compelling Findings So Far- and a Look at What is to Come." Preliminary First Results of the After the JD Study Wave II. Invited AJD Panel Presentation at NALP's Annual Education Conference. Toronto, Canada.
- Sterling, Joyce and Bryant Garth. (May, 2008). "Who are the Stars in Your Law Firm? The Most Obvious to Me is that They're All White." To be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. Montreal, Canada.
2009
- ABF Fellows Research Seminar in Boston - AJD Wave II
- After the JD Conference at Harvard Law School
This conference will introduce and publicize the accumulated experience and findings emerging from the first 6 years of the After the JD Study. Invited practitioners, professionals, and students from law and social science will join us in a dialogue intended to strengthen the project’s research agenda. The conference will address a broad set of questions, including issues of theory and method for scholars of the legal profession and pressing issues of practical concern to the legal academy and the legal profession. The After the JD project is the largest and most ambitious longitudinal study of the legal profession and this conference intends to build a platform for important new directions for the socio-legal practice and research.
OTHER NEWS
2008
- The release of the "First Results of the After the JD Wave 2 Report" is scheduled for Fall 2008.