Chicago Lawyers Survey, 1994-1995

Conducted as a partial replication of the CHICAGO LAWYERS SURVEY, 1975 (ICPSR 8218), this 1994-1995 survey sought to analyze the processes of change that transformed the practice of law and the market for legal services over the two decades between 1975 and 1995. Randomly selected Chicago, Illinois, lawyers were asked about, for example, the nature of their work, work settings, fields of practice, job satisfaction, career histories, professional commitment, client characteristics, and social and political values. Results revealed important changes in the legal profession between 1975 and 1995: women entered the profession in substantial numbers, new specialties were created, law firms and corporate legal departments grew dramatically, and in many organizations the practice of law became constrained by bureaucratic rules and procedures. Background information includes state of residence during high school, college or university attended, law school attended, law school class rank, political preference, degree of political party affiliation, religious preference, marital status, nationality, year of birth, income, race, zip code, number of children, work status of spouse, spouse's nationality, respondents' mother's occupation, respondents' mother's law school, respondents' father's occupation, and respondents' father's law school.

本调研作为1975年CHICAGO律师调查（ICPSR 8218）的部分复现，于1994-1995年间进行，旨在分析自1975年至1995年间的二十年里，法律实践和法律服务市场的变革过程。随机选取的伊利诺伊州芝加哥律师被询问了诸如工作性质、工作环境、执业领域、工作满意度、职业生涯、职业承诺、客户特征以及社会政治价值观等方面的问题。结果显示，在1975年至1995年间法律职业领域发生了重要的变化：女性以大量涌入该行业，新专业领域被创建，律师事务所和公司法律部门显著增长，在许多组织中，法律实践受到官僚规则和程序的约束。背景信息包括高中居住地、就读的大学或学院、就读的法学院、法学院班级排名、政治偏好、政党隶属程度、宗教偏好、婚姻状况、国籍、出生年份、收入、种族、邮政编码、子女数量、配偶的工作状况、配偶的国籍、受访者的母亲职业、受访者的母亲法学院、受访者的父亲职业以及受访者的父亲法学院。