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}}Building a Better Legal Profession (BBLP) was a non-profit organization founded by students at Stanford Law School in 2007. It was a national grassroots movement for market-based BigLaw workplace reform" New Data on Law Firm Diversity" by David Lat, Above The Law, May 20, 2011. Retrieved November 16, 2021. which analyzed employment data at large private law firms to promote workplace reform at these companies by encouraging students to "vote with their feet" and select future employers based on quality-of-life and diversity criteria, rather than the pure prestige.NEWS,weblink You Say You Want a Big-Law Revolution, The Wall Street Journal, Peter Lattman, 3 April 2007, 26 March 2019, Their new organization, "Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession", wants the country's biggest law firms to sign-on to principles., MAGAZINE, Vesna Jaksic, Student group grades firms on diversity, National Law Journal, 11 October 2007,weblink 26 March 2019, In an effort to help law students find out more about law firms, a student group whose mission includes helping law firms ensure that practicing law does not mean giving up commitment to family and community, has released a report that ranks firms on factors such as percentages of female partners, demographic diversity and numbers of billable hours., WEB,weblink Building a Better Legal Profession, Et Seq. Harvard Law School, 29 October 2007, 26 March 2019, BBLP's analysis was published by Kaplan as a book in 2009–2010.

Law Firm Rankings and Report Cards

(File:ReportCard2.jpg|thumb|Example of BBLP Report Card.)Using data from the National Association for Legal Career Professionals (NALP), a system of report cards and rankings of law firms was created. BBLP used data from 11 major markets in the United States to show prospective hires what they could expect from a prospect law firm. Its BBLP Rankings covered an array of information that is important to future lawyers including firms' minimum billable hour requirements, average associate hours worked, demographic diversity, average pro bono hours, and the number of part-time attorneys.JOURNAL,weblink Supply, Demand and the Changing Economics of Large Law Firms, Andrew Bruck, Andrew Canter, Stanford Law Review, 60, 6, 2087, The BBLP produced BBLP Rankings and also produced BBLP Report Cards on the major American legal marketplaces, such as in Boston, Chicago, Manhattan, Washington D.C, as well as the major American large law firms, including Allen & Overy, and Linklaters.

Building a Better Legal Profession's Guide to Law Firms

In April 2009, Kaplan published Building a Better Legal Profession's Guide to Law Firms: The Law Students Guide to Finding the Perfect Law Firm Job.BOOK,weblink Building a Better Legal Profession's Guide to Law Firms: The Law Student's Guide to Finding the Perfect Law Firm, April 2009, Kaplan, Irene Hahn, 978-1427798381, 300, The book used BBLP's online reports and guides to give career guidance and stories from the professionals already at the legal firms reviewed.NEWS,weblink Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession Releases New NYC Rankings, The Wall Street Journal, 10 October 2007, 26 March 2019,

Membership

Building a Better Legal Profession had over 1,400 members across the country, with a presence at Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Columbia Law School and NYU Law School, among others.

Media attention

The BBLP gained national media attention with traditional mainstream media with coverage from CBS,WEB,weblink Big Law Firms Turn Out To Be Embarrassingly Full Of White Men, 29 October 2007, Keach Hagey, CBS, "This is 2007," said Michel Landis Daubner, a law professor at Stanford and the adviser for the project, called Building a Better Legal Profession. "If you can't find a single black or Hispanic partner, that's not an accident.", The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,NEWS,weblink In Students’ Eyes, Look-Alike Lawyers Don’t Make the Grade, Adam Liptak, Adam Liptak, The New York Times, 29 October 2009, 26 March 2019, the Los Angeles Times,NEWS,weblink Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles Times, Lack of diversity marks L.A. law - latimes, 11 October 2007, 26 March 2019, NEWS,weblink Molly Selvin, Los Angeles Times, Law students make appeal for change - latimes, 18 March 2008, 26 March 2019, and The Boston Globe. The BBLP has been covered in legal newspapers and legal journals as well including articles from Legal Times, the ABA Journal, and the National Law Journal.

Bibliography

• BOOK,weblink Building a Better Legal Profession's Guide to Law Firms: The Law Student's Guide to Finding the Perfect Law Firm, April 2009, Irene Hahn, 978-1427798381, 300, Kaplan Publishing,

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External links

• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071031044916weblink">"Building a Better Legal Profession" website
• "Building a Better Legal Profession" blog

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