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91 Fordham L. Rev. 1161 (2022-2023)
Why the 30 Percent Mansfield Rule Can't Work: A Supply-Demand Empirical Analysis of Leadership in the Legal Profession

handle is hein.journals/flr91 and id is 1201 raw text is: WHY THE 30 PERCENT MANSFIELD RULE CAN'T WORK: A SUPPLY-DEMAND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio* INTRODUCTION................................................................................ 1162 I. LITERATURE REVIEW .................................................................. 1167 A. Supply and Demand........................................................ 1168 B. The Rise of the Mansfield Rule ....................................... 1169 C. Is the Mansfield Rule Moving the Needle?..................... 1171 II. METHODOLOGY ......................................................................... 1173 III. DESCRIPTIVE DATA .................................................................. 1176 IV . R E SU L T S ................................................................................... 1 17 7 A. Law Firms Larger than 751 Lawyers ............................. 1177 1. State of Supply and Demand for the Leadership Population ............................................................... 1177 2. State of the Supply and Demand for the Population of White Caucasian Women.................................... 1178 * Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., MSc., is a behavioral and data scientist and a lawyer. She is the Chair of the Executive Leadership Research Initiative for Women and Minority Attorneys at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession and a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School and affiliated faculty at Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP). She can be reached at pcecchidimeglioglaw.harvard.edu or @HLSPaola. Acknowledgment and appreciation are extended to many members of Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Business School, and to colleagues at other universities, especially for their faculty scholarship and feedback. The author is particularly thankful to Bruce Green, David Wilkins, Scott Cummings, David Luban, Carole Silver, Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Renee Knake Jefferson, Michele DeStefano, Russ Pearce, Leslie Levin, Atinuke Adediran, and Peter Kamminga for their helpful comments, guidance, assistance, and support. Special thanks is extended to the amazing students of the Fordham Law Review (FLR), who published this special edition to honor Deborah Rhode. A special thanks to FLR's editors Anastasia Lacina and Luis del Rosario, whose excellent work was indispensable to the success of this journal, and to Karen Chen, Maya McGrath, and other staff members of the journal for their editorial work. This research received no external funding. This Essay was prepared for the Colloquium entitled In Memory of Deborah Rhode, hosted by the Fordham Law Review and co-organized by the Stein Center for Law and Ethics on October 21, 2022, at Fordham University School of Law. 1161

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