Law Firms

Top 250 Law Firms Collectively Shrank by 5,259 Lawyers

By Debra Cassens Weiss

Nov 9, 2009, 07:46 am CST

A survey of the nation’s top 250 law firms shows they collectively shed 5,259 lawyers in the past year, a drop of 4 percent.

The drop is the largest since the National Law Journal started collecting the information in 1978. The survey has recorded only two other declines—a drop of… full story