Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others’time. This mechanism increases productivity and ampli…es the impact of skill heterogeneity on earnings inequality. To quantify this e¤ect, we analyze the earnings and organization of U.S. lawyers and use the equilibrium model of knowledge hierarchies in Garicano and Rossi-Hansberg (2006) to assess how much lawyers’producti...

Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others’time. This mechanism increases productivity and ampli…es the impact of skill heterogeneity on earnings inequality. This paper analyzes the earnings and organization of U.S. lawyers and uses an equilibrium model of knowledge hierarchies inspired by Garicano and Rossi-Hansberg (2006) to assess how much lawyers’productivity a...

Using data from a national survey we conducted in 2009 of about 1,500 lawyers and non-lawyers working in China’s legal system, we measure the political values of Chinese lawyers, compare them to various reference populations, and identify some of their sources. We find that, on the whole, Chinese lawyers are strongly inclined toward political reform, attach far greater importance to political r...

The objective of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitudes of practicing Nigerian lawyers towards issues relating to reproductive health and reproductive rights, and their opinions about abortion law reform. It was a population- based study which consisted of interviews with practicing lawyers in north-east Nigeria. The results showed poor knowledge of issues related to reproducti...

before constitution revolution, advocacy in our country governed by islamic law and lawyers introduced as a free profession in means of that law. after that revolution the government promulgated some rules for its regulation as an official profession. by act of bar association independence, this profession declared independent. many lawyers after islamic revolution have been filtrated and by th...

The aim of this paper is to indicate and explore some of the possibilities of using agents in today’s and tomorrow’s law offices. The main function of agents is, in general, to support the user. In this case, a lawyer. To be able to support a practicing lawyer, however, not only is insight in daily practice required, but also understanding of practicing lawyers needs and desires. This position ...

Drawing on the boundary theory (Nippert-Eng, 1996a) and the concept of institutional framework according to Piszczek and Berg (2014), we explore in this paper the link between institutional settings and boundary management practices in the case of selfemployed German lawyers. Qualitative empirical results on the basis of 12 interviews reveal that the institutional context in case of self-employ...