Chicago Lawyers Papers

H. Kim and E. Laumann, "Social Capital, Embedded Status, and the Endorsement Effect: Income Stratification among Chicago Lawyers, 1995," forthcoming in W. Raub (ed.), Research in the Sociology of Organizations (JAI Press, 2001).

H. Kim, "The Changing Patterns of Career Mobility in the Legal Profession: A Log-Linear Analysis of Chicago Lawyers, 1975 & 1995," forthcoming in J. Van Hoy (ed.), The Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance (Elsevier, 2001).

R. Sandefur, "Bending the Bar? Structural Change in the American Legal Profession: Findings from the Chicago Lawyers Surveys," presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Budapest (2001).

R. Nelson and J. Heinz, "Changing Patterns of Client Relationships and Professional Autonomy within the Urban Bar: Chicago Lawyers 1975-1995," presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Budapest (2001).

J. Heinz, R. Nelson and E. Laumann, "The Scale of Justice: Observations on the Transformation of Urban Law Practice," Annual Review of Sociology (2001).

K. Hull and R. Nelson, "Assimilation, Choice or Constraint? Testing Theories of Gender Differences in the Careers of Lawyers," 79 Social Forces 229-264 (2000).

E. Michelson, E. Laumann, and J. Heinz, "The Changing Character of the Lawyer-Client Relationship: Evidence from Two Chicago Surveys," in Werner Raub and Jeroen Wessie (eds.), The Management of Durable Relations (Thela/Thesis Publications, Amsterdam; 2000).

J. Heinz and P. Schnorr, with E. Laumann and R. Nelson, "Lawyers’ Roles in Voluntary Associations: Declining Social Capital?," in press Law & Social Inquiry (2000).

R. Nelson, "From Professional Dominance to Organizational Dominance? Professionalism, Inequality, and Social Change Among Chicago Lawyers, 1975-1995," presented at Cornell Law School (2000).

R. Sandefur, "Degradation of Work and Career Opportunities in the American Legal Profession," presented at the Social Stratification Workshop, University of Chicago (November 2000).

J. Heinz, K. Hull, and A. Harter, "Lawyers and Their Discontents: Findings from a Survey of the Chicago Bar," 74 Indiana Law Journal 735-58 (1999).

R. Sandefur, E. Laumann and J. Heinz, "The Changing Character and Value of Social Capital in an Expanding Social System: A Preliminary Test," in R. Leenders and S. Gabbay (eds.), Corporate Social Capital and Liability 217-33 (Kluwer, 1999).

K. Hull, "Cross-Examining the Myth of Lawyers’ Misery," 52 Vanderbilt Law Review 971-983 (1999)

K. Hull, "The Paradox of the Contented Female Lawyer," 33 Law & Society Review 687-700 (1999).

R. Sandefur and J. Heinz, "Winner-Take-All Markets for Legal Services and Lawyers’ Job Satisfaction," presented at the 1999 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting.

K. Hull and R. Nelson, "Gender Inequality and Law: Problems of Structure and Agency in Recent Studies of Gender in Anglo-American Legal Professions," 23 Law & Social Inquiry 681-705 (1998).

R. Sandefur and E. Laumann, "A Paradigm for Social Capital," 10 Rationality and Society 481-501 (1998).

J. Heinz, R. Nelson, E. Laumann and E. Michelson, "The Changing Character of Lawyers’ Work: Chicago in 1975 and 1995" 32 Law & Society Review 751-755 (1998).

R. Sandefur, "Work and Honor in the Law: Prestige and the Division of Labor," ABF Working Paper #9701 (1998), accepted for publication, American Sociological Review.

R. Sandefur, "Professional Prestige in an Urban Bar," presented at the 1998 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting.

J. Heinz and E. Laumann, with R. Nelson and P. Schnorr, "The Constituencies of Elite Urban Lawyers," 31 Law & Society Review 441-472 (1997).

R. Sandefur and E. Laumann, "Changing Patterns of Income Stratification in the Chicago Bar," presented at the 1997 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting.

M R. Payne and R.L. Nelson, "From Exclusion to Internal Stratification: The Changing Character of Stratification by Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in an Urban Legal Profession, 1975-1995."