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14,307 Lawyers Predict the Future
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14,307 Lawyers Predict the Future
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Stephanie Francis Ward
January 1, 2009, 11:05 am CST
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Most American lawyers expect the recession to affect a broad swath of the legal profession and last for quite some time. Our survey was answered by 14,307 attorneys—more than 1.3 percent of the nation’s 1.1 million lawyers.
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