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Gabriele Plickert

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Research Social Scientist

  • 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
  • Fourth Floor
  • Chicago, IL 60611
  • Phone: 312-988-6530
  • Fax: 312-988-6579

Joint appointment

staff@abfn.org

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Toronto

Bio

Gabriele Plickert joined the American Bar Foundation to manage a longitudinal study of legal careers, the After the JD Study. In collaboration with John Hagan, Hans Merkens, and Patricia Parker,…

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Research focus

Life Course, Mental Health, Social Stratification, Gender, Crime and Deviance, Quantitative Methods. Recent work builds on the aim to understand the complexities of social context and the consequences for individual success, well-being, and social functioning by exploring national differences in employment and the effects on personal lives among professionals, examining the effects of work satisfaction on developments of depression across the life course, and investigating the role of peers and schools on educational outcomes among adolescents.


Projects

Early Post-Law School Careers of Women and Men Lawyers in U.S. and German Cities
Latest finding: Oct 19, 2012, with John Hagan, Patricia Parker, Hans Merkens
International Study of Lawyers Berlin - Frankfurt am Main - New York City - Washington D.C. Free University Berlin and Law Associations of Berlin and Frankfurt Internationale…
After the JD
Latest finding: Oct 19, 2012, with Bryant G. Garth, Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, Joyce Sterling
The After the JD (AJD) project is an empirical study of the career outcomes of a cohort of almost 5,000 new lawyers, offering both a nationally representative picture of lawyer career trajectories…

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Publications

“Professional Work and the Timing of Family Formation among Young Lawyers in U.S. and German Cities.”
International Journal of the Legal Profession
"Deutsche Anwaltsstudie: Ergebnisse zur Befragung junger Rechtsanwältinnnen und Rechtsanwälte aus Berlin und Frankfurt. Rechtsanwaltskammern Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, Germany"
“Does the Golden Rule, Rule?”
Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Communities, Markets and Organizations

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Presentations

“Effects of professional work on women lawyers' timing of family formation in German and U.S. Cities”
Jul 2012
“Paradoxical Choices? Gendered Career Trajectories of Law School Graduates in the U.S. and Germany”
Jun 2012
“Women in Legal Practice: Local and Global Perspectives”
Jun 2012 Carole Silver, Steven Boutcher, and Ulrike Schultz

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Professional Service & Recognition

  • Conference Organizer, International Symposium on Comparative Studies of Legal Professions, Free University Berlin, April 16-17, 2010.
  •  Conference Organizer, “After the JD: International Conference on Research on Legal Careers in Transition.” Invited symposium for scholars, educators, practitioners, and students from the U.S. and around the world to discuss the latest empirical research on legal careers. Harvard Law School, May 1-2, 2009.
  •  Research Fellow, Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, 2008-2010
  •  Member, International Legal Profession Group