But not all is lost: "not all of the firm's practices are doing badly by a long shot, [the managing partner] says. 'There are areas of our firm like IP litigation that are going crazy.'"
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Lawyer Layoffs--A Silver Lining!
Thompson & Knight lays off lawyers, staff firmwide notes something we're hearing more and more about nowadays--law firms laying off attorneys, due to Great Depression II. As the piece notes, the Dallas-based firm recently "laid off for economic reasons 17 lawyers and 25 support staff in all of its U.S. offices, including Dallas, Houston, New York, Fort Worth and Austin. ... All of the lawyers are associates -- only two of them are first years -- who practiced in real estate or other business-related areas that require bank money to operate."
[Posted at 05/13/2009 11:28 AM by Stephan Kinsella on IP Law 
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"crazy" about sums it up
[Comment at 05/13/2009 03:03 PM by Richard]
Darn, Stephan, when I started reading this, I thought your punchline was going to be that the IP lawyers were laid off. Hey, I can dream can't I?
[Comment at 05/13/2009 06:52 PM by Bill Stepp]
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