DOCSLIB.ORG

Culture Clash in the Quality of Life in the Law: Changes in the Economics, Diversification and Organization of Lawyering

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Culture Clash in the Quality of Life in the Law: Changes in the Economics, Diversification and Organization of Lawyering Case Western Reserve Law Review Volume 44 Issue 2 Article 8 1994 Culture Clash in the Quality of Life in the Law: Changes in the Economics, Diversification and Organization of Lawyering Carrie Menkel-Meadow Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/caselrev Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Culture Clash in the Quality of Life in the Law: Changes in the Economics, Diversification and Organization of Lawyering, 44 Case W. Rsrv. L. Rev. 621 (1994) Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/caselrev/vol44/iss2/8 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Journals at Case Western Reserve University School of Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Case Western Reserve Law Review by an authorized administrator of Case Western Reserve University School of Law Scholarly Commons. CULTURE CLASH IN THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE LAW: CHANGES IN THE ECONOMICS, DIVERSIFICATION AND ORGANIZATION OF LAWYERING Carrie Menkel-Meadowt I. INTRODUCTION: THE CULTURES OF CHANGE IN THE LEGAL PRoFESsiON T HERE is no question that law practice has changed in recent decades. More lawyers work in larger units' or newer forms of practice.2 Increasing numbers of lawyers come from previously excluded groups, including both women and minority demographic groups? After a period of economic boom4 there is general eco- nomic anxiety about the continued health and growth of the law "industry."' This occurs as there is a general "speed up" in Ameri- can work,' the forms of law practice organization 7 and billing for t Professor of Law, U.C.L.A., Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 1994 (A.B., 1971, Barnard College; J.D., 1974, Pennsylvania). 1. RICHARD L. ABEL, AMERICAN LAWYERS 9 (1989). 2. See, e.g., Carroll Sewn, Managing EntrepreneurialLegal Services: The Transforma- tion of Small Finn Practice, in LAWYERS' IDEALS/LAWYERS' PRACTICES 63 (Robert L. Nelson et al.eds., 1992). 3. Came Menkel-Meadow, Excluded Voices: New Voices in the Legal Profession Making New Voices in the Law, 42 U. MIAMI L. REV. 29 (1987). 4. Richard H. Sander & E. Douglass Williams, Why Are There So Many Lawyers? Perspectives on a Turbulent Market, 14 LAW & Soc. INQUIRY 431, 434 (1989) (compar- ing relative sizes of the legal, steel, textile, auto, and publishing industries for the year 1986 and commenting that lawyer billing exceeded dollars produced m the steel and tex- tile industries). 5. Don . DeBenedictis, Growing Pains, A.B.A. J.,Mar. 1993, at 52. 6. JULIET B. SCHOR, THE OVERWORKED AMERICAN: THE UNEXPECTED DECLINE OF LEISURE (1991). 7. See, e.g., MARC GALANTER & THOMAS PALAY, TOURNAMENT OF LAWYERS: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE BIG LAW FIRM (1991); ROBERT E. LITAN & STEVEN C. SALOP, CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW [Vol. 44:621 legal work are being renegotiated, and rates of dissatisfaction with the practice of law increase, especially among younger and newer lawyers.8 These are just some of the changes, broadly labeled, by this writer and others, as "transformations" in the legal profession, that have undoubtedly inspired the current effort to understand what the legal profession of the 21st Century will look like. These changes in the structure and 6rganization of lawyering will have a profound effect on the way in which people labor as lawyers. As one who is generally skeptical about the predictions of "futurists,"9 because I do not think we can accurately predict how various "trends" will interact with each other, I find my task, to suggest proposals or resolutions to deal with the "economics and work environment" of legal practice, particularly difficult. Change in the legal profession is clearly afoot-but how the various chang- es outlined above will interact with each other is difficult to assess. In this Paper I aim to combine the descriptive with the pre- scriptive so that the sources of my proposals for change will be clear. In part II, I will briefly review some of the demographic, structural and organizational changes in the legal profession. In part I, I will review some of the recent and proposed innovations in law practice that have come from the diversification of the legal profession, both in social structural and suggested theoretical terms. In part IV, I will identify some of the barriers to innovation and the diffusion of innovation. In part V, I will describe some of the current efforts to structure change by focusing on a few "change masters""° in the profession.' In part VI, I will offer my own blue- MORE VALUE FOR THE LEGAL DOLLAR: A NEw LOOK AT ATTORNEY-CLIENT FEES AND RELATIONSHIPS (1992); Ronald . Gilson & Robert H. Mnookin, Coming of Age in a Corporate Law Firm: The Economics of Associate Career Patterns,41 STAN. L. REV. 567 (1989) [hereinafter Coming of Age]; Ronald J. Gilson & Robert H. Mnookin, Sharing Among the Human Capitalists: An Economic Inquiry into the Corporate Law Firm and How PartnersSplit Profits, 37 STAN. L. REV. 313 (1985) [hereinafter Human Capitalists]. 8. American Bar Association, The Report Of At The Breaking Point: A National Con- ference on the Emerging Crisis in the Quality of Lawyers' Health and Lives-Its Impact on Law Firms and Client Services (1991) [hereinafter Breaking Point] (reporting on "Na- tional Surveys of Career Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction" conducted by Ronald Hirsh for the Young Lawyer Division of the ABA in 1984 and 1990). 9. For examples of futurism, see JOHN NAIsBET & PATRICIA ABURDENE, MEGATRENDS 2000 (1990); FAITH POPCORN, Te POPCORN REPORT: FAITH POPCORN ON THE FUTURE OF YOUR COMPANY, YOUR WORLD, YOUR LIFE (1991); ALVIN TOFFLER, FUTURE SHocK (1970). 10. See ROSABETH M. KANTER, THE CHANGE MASTERS: INNOVATION FOR PRODUC- TIvirY IN THE AMERICAN CORPORATION 15 (1983) (defining change masters as "[tihose people and organizations adept at the art of anticipating the need for, and of leading. 19941 FUTURE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION 623 print for change and proposals for improving the quality of life in the legal profession. My themes and biases here should be stated at the outset. In my view, the quality of life in the legal profession needs improve- ment, if lawyers are to lead socially useful and productive lives, for their clients, for their colleagues, for their families, and for themselves, as well as for the future of our legal system. There is room for hope in achieving positive changes for the profession with the entrance and contribution of more diverse members of the profession. However, it is also clear that a variety of other factors, such as the economics of law practice, resistant occupational struc- tures, and persistent, but outmoded, ideologies may have counter- vailing influences on the innovations most likely to improve the quality of life and work environments of lawyers. My theme here is that change in the legal profession will come from a clash of cultures"-demands for more humane and horizontally 2 satisfy- ing work on the one hand and the requirements and exigencies of the economic (and vertical) 3 bottom line on the other.'4 Thus, productive change"). 11. The theme of culture clash for me here is the clash between demands of the pro- fession as a business and more humane concerns about work and the quality of life. Or. as I have framed it elsewhere, the clash between professional ideology and social structure and other ideologies, such as feminism. Some who have written about professional work have identified other culture clashes. See, eg., JOSEPH A. RAHuN, THE CLASH OF CUL- TUnES: MANAGERS AND PROFESSIONALS (1991) (discussing conflicts between the corporate culture of managers and the professional-autonomy culture of professionals); Robert G. Meadow & Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Personalized or Bureaucratized Justice in Legal Ser- vices: Resolving Sociological Ambivalence in the Delivery of Legal Aid for the Poor, 9 LAW & HUM. BE-IAV. 397 (1985) (discussing the "clash" of the professional ideal and the bureaucratic nature of law practice in some settings). 12. See, e.g., ELIZBm'- A. ASHBURN, MOTIVATION, PERSONALITY, AND WORK-RELAT- ED CHARACEiRSTCS OF WOMEN IN MALE DOMINATED PROFESSIONS (National Association for Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors, 1977). 13. I draw the horizontal-vertical distinction here from a number of studies that have reported that women seek horizontal satisfaction in a variety of domains including work, family relationships, and other social affiliations, while men are more likely to assess their life satisfactions from a more hierarchical, in both economic and social prestige measures, and work-focused, basis. See Carrie Menkel-Mcadow. Feminization of the Legal Profes- sion: The Comparative Sociology of Women Lawyers, in LAWYERS IN SOCtrry: COMPARA- TIE THEoRIms 196. 227 (Richard L. Abel & Phillip S. C. Lewis eds., 1989). 14. If these "cultural clashes" seem to echo a gendered theme in much recent work on the legal profession, see, e.g., RAND JACK & DANA C. JACK, MORAL VISION AND PRO- FESSIONAL DECISIONS: THE CHANGING VALUES OF WOMEN AND MEN LAWYERS (1989); Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Exploring a Research Agenda of the Feminization of the Legal Profession: Theories of Gender and Social Change, 14 LAW & Soc. INQUIRY 289 (1989) [hereinafter Research Agenda]; Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Portia in a Different Voice: Specu- lations on a Women's Lawyering Process, 1 BERKELEY WOMEN'S L.J. 39 (1985) therein- CASE WESTERNF RESERVE LAW REVIEW [Vol. 44:621 ultimately, the story of change in the legal profession is a story of how culture and social structural change are negotiated. Like the current effort, official conferences with specific resolutions are one way of trying to put things on the social change agenda. Ultimate- ly, however, the resolutions of social, political and economic nego- tiations in the legal profession are much more likely to occur in more subtle ways, behind the closed doors of law firms, govern- ment agencies and bar associations.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at Election Lies
    University of Colorado Law School Colorado Law Scholarly Commons Articles Colorado Law Faculty Scholarship 2018 (At Least) Thirteen Ways of Looking at Election Lies Helen Norton University of Colorado Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles Part of the Business Organizations Law Commons, Election Law Commons, First Amendment Commons, Judges Commons, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Commons, Science and Technology Law Commons, and the Supreme Court of the United States Commons Citation Information Helen Norton, (At Least) Thirteen Ways of Looking at Election Lies, 71 OKLA. L. REV. 117 (2018), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles/1182. Copyright Statement Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Colorado Law Faculty Scholarship at Colorado Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles by an authorized administrator of Colorado Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. (AT LEAST) THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT ELECTION LIES* HELEN NORTON** Lies take many forms. Because lies vary so greatly in their motivations and consequences (among many other qualities), philosophers have long sought to catalog them to help make sense of their diversity and complexity. Augustine and Aquinas, for instance, separately proposed moral hierarchies of lies based on their differing assessments of certain lies’ relative harm and value.1 Legal scholars too have classified lies in various ways to explain why we punish some and protect others.2 * See WALLACE STEVENS, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, in THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS 99 (Vintage Int’l 2015) (1954).
    [Show full text]
  • Mcfate's Mission
    Profile by nina burleigh Montgomery McFate, anthropologist and military adviser, at home in Washington, D.C. Montgomery McFate, senior adviser to the Department of Defense in a controversial effort to put anthropologists in the service of national security, long ago went undercover. This former California-hardcore-punk-scene denizen’s only nod to that past life is her tightly cropped dyed- blonde hair. The pantsuits McFate now wears could easily be from Hillary Clinton’s closet, and she Mhas gold studs, not safety pins, in her ears. The daughter of beatnik parents, McFate grew up on a decommissioned World War II barge and now lives in a well- appointed Washington, D.C., apartment where she and her U.S. Army vet husband recently played host to the Swedish defense attaché. Yet at 41, Montgomery McFate apparently still can’t resist the lure of transgression. Though coy about it, she’s said to be the brains behind the blog I Luv a Man in Uniform, where Pentagon Diva feverishly debates the relative hotness of various Department of Defense wonks. agency But whether her colleagues at the DOD, or anyone else, really artist . e . h believe she is Pentagon Diva is of . t little concern to her. She has much for more important work to do. For the past five years, McFate, hannan McFate’s a Yale- and Harvard-educated cultural anthropologist, has been jacquie : Mission on a self-described evangelical makeup mission to help the U.S. and government better understand the Can a former punk roCker raised on a houseboat cultures of Iraq and Afghanistan.
    [Show full text]
  • Understanding Evangelical Support For, and Opposition to Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election
    Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses 9-1-2020 Understanding Evangelical Support for, and Opposition to Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election Joseph Thomas Zichterman Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Part of the Political Science Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Zichterman, Joseph Thomas, "Understanding Evangelical Support for, and Opposition to Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election" (2020). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 5570. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.7444 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. Understanding Evangelical Support for, and Opposition to Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election by Joseph Thomas Zichterman A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Political Science Thesis Committee: Richard Clucas, Chair Jack Miller Kim Williams Portland State University 2020 Abstract This thesis addressed the conundrum that 81 percent of evangelicals supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, despite the fact that his character and comportment commonly did not exemplify the values and ideals that they professed. This was particularly perplexing to many outside (and within) evangelical circles, because as leaders of America’s “Moral Majority” for almost four decades, prior to Trump’s campaign, evangelicals had insisted that only candidates who set a high standard for personal integrity and civic decency, were qualified to serve as president.
    [Show full text]
  • RAPE on CAMPUS and in the MILITARY: an Agenda for Reform
    ARTICLES RAPE ON CAMPUS AND IN THE MILITARY: An Agenda for Reform Deborah L. Rhode* I. Introduction “Sexual violence is more than just a crime against individuals,” declared President Barack Obama in January 2014. “It threatens our families; it threatens our communities. Ultimately, it threatens the entire country. It tears apart the fabric of our communities . [W]e have the power to do something about it as a government, as a nation.”1 This was, by all accounts, the first time an American pres- ident had ever used the phrase “sexual violence,” let alone made dealing with it a national priority.2 That recognition of the problem was long overdue. The Unit- ed States has the world’s second highest rate of reported rape.3 About sixteen to eighteen percent of American women and one to three percent of American men have experienced an attempted or completed rape.4 Only about a third of rapes and attempted rapes * Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford University. 1 Nina Burleigh, Confronting Campus Rape, Rolling Stone (June 4, 2014), http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/confronting-campus-rape-20140604 (quoting Barack Obama). 2 Id. 3 U. N. Office on Drugs and Crime,Rape at the National Level, Number of Police Recorded Offenses (2011), www.unodc.org/ documents/data-and-analy- sis/statistics/crime/ CTS12_Sexual_violence.xls. 4 Michele C. Black et al., Nat’l Ctr. for Injury Prevention and Con- trol, The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Summary Report 18, 19 (2011), http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/ nisvs_report2010-a.pdf; see also Rape in the United States: The Chronic Failure to Report and Investigate Rape Cases: Hearing Before the Subcomm.
    [Show full text]
  • The Centerpiece
    THE CENTERPIECE A bi-weekly publication of the Center for State Policy & Leadership University of Illinois Springfield January 24, 2013 WUIS has become a full partner in Harvest Public Media, a multi-state reporting effort funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Today’s emerging agenda for agriculture is headlined by energy and climate change, food safety, biofuels, animal production, water quality, and local foods. By examining these issues from local, regional, and national perspectives, Harvest plans to offer a rich multimedia resource on “food, fuel, and field.” WUIS will report the Illinois angle on subjects at the intersection of agriculture and the consumer. The lead station in the network is KCUR in Kansas City. Other full partners include Iowa Public Radio, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, and stations in Columbia, Missouri and Greeley, Colorado. The network recently broadcast a series of stories examining the beef industry. Jonathan Moore, whose case was handled by the Center’s Illinois Innocence Project, was one of 22 exonerations for wrongful conviction in the United States in 2012, according to a report released recently by the National Innocence Network. Moore was serving out a 76-year prison sentence for murder and attempted murder when, in 2011, a witness came forward with new information demonstrating Moore’s lack of involvement in the crime. The Illinois Innocence Project, together with the Kane County State’s Attorney and the Aurora Police, reinvestigated the case, and all concluded that Moore could not have committed the murder. The Kane County State’s Attorney presented a motion to vacate the conviction on March 6, 2012, and Moore was exonerated.
    [Show full text]
  • Impact Investing and Critiques of Philanthrocapitalism Benjamin Soskis June 2021
    CENTER ON NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY RESEARCH REPORT Impact Investing and Critiques of Philanthrocapitalism Benjamin Soskis June 2021 ABOUT THE URBAN INSTITUTE The nonprofit Urban Institute is a leading research organization dedicated to developing evidence-based insights that improve people’s lives and strengthen communities. For 50 years, Urban has been the trusted source for rigorous analysis of complex social and economic issues; strategic advice to policymakers, philanthropists, and practitioners; and new, promising ideas that expand opportunities for all. Our work inspires effective decisions that advance fairness and enhance the well-being of people and places. Copyright © June 2021. Urban Institute. Permission is granted for reproduction of this file, with attribution to the Urban Institute. Cover image by Tim Meko. Contents Acknowledgments iv Impact Investing and Critiques of Philanthrocapitalism 1 The Messianism of Private Capital 3 Philanthrocapitalism and the Master’s Tools 5 The Agents of Privatization 8 The Meaning of Sacrifice, the Pursuit of Profit, and the Critique of the Win-Win 11 The COVID-19 Crisis as Test of Impact Investing 16 Notes 21 References 27 About the Author 29 Statement of Independence 30 Acknowledgments Support for this report was provided by the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing, a project of the New Venture Fund. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflects the views of the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing or New Venture Fund. We are grateful to them and to all our funders, who make it possible for Urban to advance its mission. The views expressed are those of the author and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders.
    [Show full text]
  • Bisecting American Islam? Divide, Conquer, and Counter-Radicalization Khaled A
    Hastings Law Journal Volume 69 | Issue 2 Article 1 2-2018 Bisecting American Islam? Divide, Conquer, and Counter-Radicalization Khaled A. Beydoun Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_law_journal Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Khaled A. Beydoun, Bisecting American Islam? Divide, Conquer, and Counter-Radicalization, 69 Hastings L.J. 429 (2018). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_law_journal/vol69/iss2/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Law Journal by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. F - BEYDOUN_29 (FINAL) (DO NOT DELETE) 2/10/2018 10:20 AM Articles Bisecting American Islam? Divide, Conquer, and Counter-Radicalization KHALED A. BEYDOUN* The United States Department of State has long employed a sectarian foreign policy strategy to advance its interests in the Mideast. The United States has sided staunchly with Saudi Arabia, the Sunni Muslim superpower in the region, while spurning Iran, the Shia Muslim hegemon that emerged in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution. This sectarian strategy reaped great benefit in the form of exclusive rights over Saudi oil and staving off Soviet influence in the Mideast. But the State Department’s unwavering allegiance to Saudi Arabia today exposes it to foreign attacks and “homegrown radicalization” inspired by terror networks driven by Wahhabism, the extremist Sunni ideology enshrined by its longtime ally. Through its historic at-all-costs support of Saudi Arabia, the U.S. has facilitated the spread of an ideology that spawned Al Qaeda, which coordinated the 9/11 terror attacks; and most recently, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”)the terror network that inspires extremism.
    [Show full text]
  • The Government's Manufacture of Doubt
    University of Colorado Law School Colorado Law Scholarly Commons Articles Colorado Law Faculty Scholarship 2018 The Government's Manufacture of Doubt Helen Norton University of Colorado Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, First Amendment Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Legal History Commons, President/Executive Department Commons, and the Supreme Court of the United States Commons Citation Information Helen Norton, The Government's Manufacture of Doubt, 16 First Amend. L. Rev. 342 (2018), https://falrunc.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/falr-volume-16-symposium-issue3.pdf, available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles/1183/. Copyright Statement Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Colorado Law Faculty Scholarship at Colorado Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles by an authorized administrator of Colorado Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE GOVERNMENT’S MANUFACTURE OF DOUBT Helen Norton* “The manufacture of doubt” refers to a speaker’s strategic efforts to undermine factual assertions that threaten its self-interest. This strategy was perhaps most famously employed by the tobacco industry in its
    [Show full text]
  • Soviet Bloc Intelligence and Its AIDS Disinformation Campaign
    Studies in Intelligence Vol. 53, No. 4 Studies 53, No. in Intelligence Vol. 4 No. 53, Vol. Intelligence in Studies Vol. 53, No. 4 (December 2009) Military Intelligence in WW I “The Intelligence Section, A.E.F” Operation IFEKTION: The Soviet Bloc AIDS Disinformation Campaign Reviewed: Solving Real World Intelligence The Accidental Guerrilla Problems on the College Campus Vietnam Declassified OSS Training in National Parks The Secret War in El Paso The James Angleton Phenomenon The Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf Books Reviewed in 2009 Form Approved Report Documentation Page OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington VA 22202-4302. Respondents should be aware that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to a penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number. 1. REPORT DATE 3. DATES COVERED 2. REPORT TYPE DEC 2009 00-00-2009 to 00-00-2009 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER Studies in Intelligence. Journal of the American Intelligence Professional. 5b. GRANT NUMBER Volume 53, No. 4, December 2009 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6.
    [Show full text]
  • The Interviews
    Jeff Schechtman Interviews December 1995 to April 2017 2017 Marcus du Soutay 4/10/17 Mark Zupan Inside Job: How Government Insiders Subvert the Public Interest 4/6/17 Johnathan Letham More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers 4/6/17 Ali Almossawi Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier 4/5/17 Steven Vladick Prof. of Law at UT Austin 3/31/17 Nick Middleton An Atals of Countries that Don’t Exist 3/30/16 Hope Jahren Lab Girl 3/28/17 Mary Otto Theeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health 3/28/17 Lawrence Weschler Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists 3/28/17 Mark Olshaker Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs 3/24/17 Geoffrey Stone Sex and Constitution 3/24/17 Bill Hayes Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me 3/21/17 Basharat Peer A Question of Order: India, Turkey and the Return of the Strongmen 3/21/17 Cass Sunstein #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media 3/17/17 Glenn Frankel High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic 3/15/17 Sloman & Fernbach The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Think Alone 3/15/17 Subir Chowdhury The Difference: When Good Enough Isn’t Enough 3/14/17 Peter Moskowitz How To Kill A City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood 3/14/17 Bruce Cannon Gibney A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America 3/10/17 Pam Jenoff The Orphan's Tale: A Novel 3/10/17 L.A.
    [Show full text]
  • Nina Burleigh - Class of 1978 Is National Politics Correspondent at Newsweek Magazine
    Nina Burleigh - Class of 1978 is National Politics Correspondent at Newsweek Magazine. She is an award-winning journalist and the author of five books. Her last book, The Fatal Gift of Beauty, was a widely praised New York Times bestseller. In the last several years, she has covered an array of subjects, from American politics to the Arab Spring. She has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Businessweek, The New Yorker, Time, New York and The New York Times. She has lectured around the U.S. and in Italy, France and Mexiso, and has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, on NPR and numerous radio programs. Nina was born and educated in the Midwest, has traveled extensively in the Middle East and lived in Italy and France. She covered the Clinton White House for Time and reported and wrote human interest stories at People Magazine from New York. She is a an adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has lectured around the United States, in Italy, and in Mexico. Her book, Mirage, published in 2008 by Harper Collins, was selected by The New York Times as an editors' choice and won the Society of Women Educators' Award in 2008. Early life Her father is author Robert Burleigh, and was a University of Chicago professor. Burleigh’s family moved to the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco when she was seven. After a few months in San Francisco, they moved to Baghdad to live with Burleigh’s maternal grandmother.
    [Show full text]
  • Opening Closed Doors: How the Current Law
    University of Chicago Legal Forum Volume 2019 Article 17 2019 Opening Closed Doors: How the Current Law Surrounding Nondisclosure Agreements Serves the Interests of Victims of Sexual Harassment, and the Best Avenues for Its Reform D. Andrew Rondeau Follow this and additional works at: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Rondeau, D. Andrew (2019) "Opening Closed Doors: How the Current Law Surrounding Nondisclosure Agreements Serves the Interests of Victims of Sexual Harassment, and the Best Avenues for Its Reform," University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 2019 , Article 17. Available at: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol2019/iss1/17 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Chicago Unbound. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Chicago Legal Forum by an authorized editor of Chicago Unbound. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Opening Closed Doors: How the Current Law Surrounding Nondisclosure Agreements Serves the Interests of Victims of Sexual Harassment, and the Best Avenues for Its Reform. By D. Andrew Rondeau† I. INTRODUCTION Among the plethora of pervasive and long-obscured women’s issues suddenly exposed by the #MeToo Movement, nondisclosure agreements (“NDAs”) have taken center stage. Indeed, it was the public revelation of Harvey Weinstein’s unchecked behavior and NDA protections that thrust the #MeToo Movement into the national limelight.1 Both the Weinstein2 and Stormy Daniels3 stories perfectly illustrate the reasons behind such intense public concern. Wealthy, sophisticated parties can bind financially vulnerable victims to private avenues of relief that are unlikely to remedy the harm caused and likely to perpetuate patterns of sexual harassment and abuse.4 To anyone unfamiliar with American law, the idea that courts enforce these agreements smacks of blatant injustice.
    [Show full text]