Ronit Dinovitzer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of
Toronto and a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, where she is also Co-Director of the Research Group on Legal Diversity. She
holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto. She has served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ronit is currently
engaged in research on stratification in the legal profession through her
involvement with the After the JD project, the first national longitudinal study
of law graduates in the US. Her current projects include a national study of
Canadian law graduates (The Law and Beyond Study) and a qualitative study of the ways in which corporate
lawyers interact with their clients. Ronit has also conducted research on the
social organization of lawyers, the market for lawyers and legal services, and
the effects of legal culture among civil litigators.