Alternative Cost Plan Structures For Law Corporations
The Denver Post reported that main law companies have minimize more than 10,000 jobs nationwide in 2009. On February 12, 2009, Bloomberg reported that seven hundred jobs have been minimize that in the future at law corporations across the nation. Among the companies closed included Heller Ehrman, a San Francisco-based firm established in 1890 and Halliwells of the UK. Among those that survived, law firm layoffs became so widespread that commerce publications like American Lawyer produced an ongoing "Layoff List" of the law corporations nationwide that minimize jobs. In an October 2007 press conference reported in The Wall Street Journal…