Law firms could learn a thing or two from the way public interest law organizations and government agencies hire new attorneys.

A new report on lawyer hiring, based on surveys of more than 24,000 attorneys, identifies a deep disconnect between the way most of the legal industry hires new attorneys and the qualities they say they value most highly — a gap the public interest sphere has largely managed to avoid.

Alli Gerkman, Director of Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers.