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: Legal Pad | LANot enough work for good lawyers, even at smaller firms
By Richard Binder
Courtesy of NLJ via Above the Law:
Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, a 75-attorney firm specializing in commercial real estate with offices in Los Angeles and Chicago, is laying off eight attorneys and four staff.
Leo J. Pircher, founding member, noted in a statement on Wednesday that "commercial real estate work has declined in the last 6 months and our clients have told us that it is not likely to pick up substantially in 2009." Pircher praised the laid off attorneys and staff as "fine and competent people," but "there certainly isn't enough commercial real estate work to go around."
Layoffs are already occurring at smaller firms but are typically unnoticed in "ones and twos," said Jon Lindsey, managing partner of the New York office of the legal recruiting consultant firm Major, Lindsey & Africa.
Read the full story here.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).
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