For the second year in a row, the largest Texas firms elected fewer new partners in Texas.

At first blush, that 10 percent drop following a 20 percent decline in 2008 sounds reasonable, considering the nation’s financial crisis, the precipitous drop in the stock market and the price of a barrel of crude oil, and recent BigTex lawyer and staff layoffs.

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