Nikia Gray, Kyle Rozema, and Danielle Taylor, ‘Who Enters the Pipeline to Partnership at Leading American Law Firms?’ (December 13, 2025), available at SSRN. Equity partners at America’s leading law firms occupy positions of extraordinary wealth, influence, and prestige atop the legal profession. Who reaches those positions, and through which pathways, is a revealing measure of how open and inclusive the profession is and has accordingly received extensive attention in both legal scholarship and the popular press. There has been less attention, however, to which new attorneys land the types of positions that plausibly place them on the path to partnership … (more)
[Kevin Woodson, JOTWELL, 8 May 2026]
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