The nation’s largest law firms this year suffered the deepest cuts in their attorney numbers since The National Law Journal, a Daily Report affiliate, began tracking their census figures more than 30 years ago.
The total number of attorneys working at the top 250 law firms plunged by 5,259 lawyers. Put another way, it’s as if all of the lawyers working at two firms the size of Jones Day vanished in 2009.
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