The [F]law: The Price of a Harvard Lawyer

In the latest article from The [F]law, Noelle Musolino examines how big law firms essentially buy Harvard lawyers from the moment they step on campus as first year law students by funding their education, lunches, extracurriculars, and social lives. Every year, a significant majority of incoming Harvard Law students enter the school expressing public interest aspirations while a small minority of outgoing students leave with public interest jobs. The space between is pumped with funding from big law firms who can spend their money from corporate clients on susceptible law students in a way that vulnerable populations in need of legal services cannot. 

Read “The Price of a Harvard Lawyer.”

Related Systemic Justice Resources

From The [F]law:

• Lisa Fanning, The Corporate Roots of Conservative Legal Thought
• Rosie Kaur, Big Law’s Capture of Students of Color
  
• Ellie Olsen, The Dirty Work of America’s Legal Darlings
• Logan Campbell, What ‘Good’ is Pro Bono?: How Big Law Firms Use Pro Bono To Mask Harm
• Marty Strauss, In Search of Sunlight: How Corporate Law Careers Outshine All Else at Elite Law Schools

From The Systemic Justice Journal:

• HLS Student, Helping by All Means Possible (Except That One): Corporate Philanthropy and the Capture of “Doing Good”
• Maggie Hagen, Corporate Capture of Nonprofits: Corporate Law and the Preference for Profit