Education
Apr. 11, 2007
Students Prod Big Firms to Change
Stanford Law School students concerned about the potentially brutal first years in the profession formed a group and wrote to 100 top law firms asking them to ease up on young associates. Chief among their goals? Ending the billable hour. They plan to post the responses on their Web site.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Billable-hour drudgery in associate hell is a fate some law students anticipate with loathing.
So Stanford Law School students Craig Holt Segall and Andrew Carter are trying to do something about it.
Their effort, announced last week in letters to 100 of the nation's premiere firms, seeks to...
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