| No matter what industry you question, the | | | | against each other have also needed to assign |
| current financial climate has changed everyone in | | | | lawyers to represent them in the courts, keeping |
| America. There are hardly any industries that are | | | | law firms busy throughout the recession. |
| recession-proof and it is illustrated with lower | | | | - Lawyers may have noticed that they had to |
| earnings, staggering unemployment rates, | | | | associate with a fewer number of clients because |
| manufacturers going out of business and more. | | | | they were either too frenzied with other |
| The legal industry, while many supposed would be | | | | long-lasting cases or weren’t given enough |
| blocked from the recession because there will | | | | supplies to finish their work. |
| always be a need for lawyers, has also been | | | | - Law firms of all volumes and years of |
| affected. Here are a number of positive and | | | | knowledge shut their doors due to a lack of |
| negative ways the present recession has | | | | business or because upper management |
| affected the legal industry. | | | | didn’t have the resources or the know how |
| - Legal assistants, lawyers, management, | | | | on how to run efficiently. |
| paralegals, and others were required to take a | | | | - Those who need a legal discovery company are |
| hack in their earnings, renounce their bonuses, or | | | | permitted to be particular about which firm they |
| were just laid off because of funding cuts and a | | | | would like to work with because lawyers are still |
| low order for work. And those people who were | | | | struggling for their work and are battling with |
| laid off were told to look into staffing agencies for | | | | opposing firms for their business. |
| full-time work or go after higher education and | | | | - Because of miniscule budgets, law firms had to |
| refresher courses to make themselves look more | | | | cut down the types of cons given to their |
| appealing to law firms looking to hire. | | | | employees, like fancy company excursions and |
| - There’s been a higher demand for legal | | | | parties, paid working meals and perks that many |
| representation for people looking to be stood for | | | | of their employees were used to preceding the |
| in the legal branches for financial and other legal | | | | recession. |
| reasons. Big corporations seeking out legal action | | | | |