William D. Henderson is a Professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where he teaches courses related to business law and the economics and structure of the legal profession.  Professor Henderson's scholarship focuses on the empirical analysis of legal labor markets and legal education.  In the law firm context, current and past projects examine a wide variety of market trends, including patterns of lawyer mobility, the relationship between profitability and associate satisfaction, the economic geography of large law firms, and attrition rates of female and minority attorneys. His recent legal-education work explores the relationship between labor markets and the annual U.S. News & World Report law school rankings.

Professor Henderson serves as director of the Center on the Global Legal Profession at Indiana University; director of the Law Firms Working Group, a joint initiative of Indiana Law and the American Bar Foundation; and as a research associate for the Law School Survey of Student Engagement.  He also is a principal with Lawyer Metrics, which designs and builds systems for lawyer selection, development and performance management.