| Members of the legal profession generally avoid practicing law on behalf of the poor, leaving many low income individuals without adequate legal protection. Though scholars have argued that law schools and the legal profession fail to instill students and lawyers with values regarding helping the underprivileged, and though researchers have considered the effect of a number of individual-level variables on affinity to poverty law, research on the issue has generally ignored the influence of law student value systems on job choices. This project involved data collection from students at two major Texas public law schools designed to measure the impact of capitalist and democratic ideologies on law student job choices. Multiple regression analysis revealed that while one's subscription of democratic values has no effect on job choice, the espousal of capitalist ideology has a strong negative correlation to poverty law practice. |
