More than one-third of corporations have reduced their in-house legal staffs or plan to do so this year, and the amount of work for outside counsel is heading for a nosedive, too, a national survey of general counsel reported on Tuesday.

Legal consultant Altman Weil Inc. has been polling general counsel for 10 years and the results for 2009 reflect how much the recession has gripped the legal marketplace.

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