Despite the state’s restructuring of some bad debt and towns’ cyclical need to buy equipment and maintain infrastructure, borrowing through bond issues plummeted 31.9 percent in the first six months of the year.

That means less legal work. Of 13 firms that were bond counsel for New Jersey public financings for the first half of 2010 and 2011, only three handled issues worth more this year than last.

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