The Fordham Law Review has published an article, Lawyers’ Career Aspirations in Canada and the United States, co-authored by Meghan Dawe (Postdoctoral Fellow, The Baldy Center) and Ronit Dinovitzer (Professor, University of Toronto, Department of Sociology). The introduction reads, in part: Lawyers’ career aspirations are shaped within the cultural and institutional contexts of the legal profession. [...] Recalibrating aspirations in line with shared cultural understandings enables individuals to frame constrained choices as intentional and agentic, rather than foreclosed, and behavioral responses reinforce these cultural beliefs. Thus, professional hierarchies reproduce themselves by shaping the shared. 
Also see: The Baldy Center Blog featuring Meghan Dawe.