Financial Crisis

1/3 of Lawyers Expect Their Employers to Resort to Layoffs in 2009

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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.

To see the survey results from the January ABA Journal, click here.

The survey is part of a package of stories about the legal recession and includes pieces about how the recession happened, what may happen next and how to survive the financial crisis.

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