The planned shuttering of three casinos over Labor Day weekend or soon after—Revel, Showboat and Trump Plaza—would seem to have dealt a cruel hand to the legal industry in Atlantic City, N.J. But, nearly four decades after gambling was legalized in the city, lawyers there say they’re carrying on.

“We have clients who are going to be closing—obviously, it has an impact,” Lloyd D. Levenson, CEO of Atlantic City’s Cooper Levenson, said. “But we learned a long, long time ago … diversify one’s practice.”

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