Law Students Unite!

The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog is reporting today on an interesting phenomenon -- a group of law students at Stanford and other top law schools have formed an organization, Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession (LSBBLP -- not sure how they're going to get a snappy acronym out of this name!), which advocates for a more humane working environment in large law firms.  Not content to simply start a blog on this topic, the group recently sent out a letter to the AmLaw 100 law firms, asking them to commit to the following core principles:

• Making concrete steps towards a transactional billing system;
• Reducing maximum billable hour expectations for partnership;
• Implementing balanced hours policies that work;
• Making work expectations clear.

The letter makes it clear that LSBBLP will publicize which law firms have committed to the above principles just before on-campus interviewing starts this fall.  Good luck to the brave students working on this venture!