Law firms struggled to cope with a drop in demand across nearly all practice areas during the second quarter, according to Thomson Reuters’ Peer Monitor Index, but Texas and its neighbors in the southwest region fared better.
Demand, measured by hours billed, declined overall and in four of five U.S. regions during the second quarter, the report found. The Southwest was the outlier, registering an uptick of 1.1 percent. Demand declined by 0.1 percent in the northeast, 0.2 percent in the midwest, 1.3 percent in the west and 3.3 percent in the southeast.
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