One year since Hurricane Katrina gutted much of New Orleans and the surrounding area, business for some lawyers is flourishing from reconstruction projects and domestic cases -- due to an uptick in cases from marriages stretched to the breaking point in Katrina's wake -- while others are still struggling to rebuild their practices and their lives. And then there's the future. "It's not certain in people's minds that we won't go through it again this year," says Phelps Dunbar's Richard Dicharry.
August 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A year after Hurricane Katrina gutted much of New Orleans and the surrounding area, business for some lawyers is flourishing from reconstruction projects, while others are still struggling to rebuild their practices and their lives.
For a legal community that was home to about 7,500 lawyers, the storm wiped out communications, case files and, in some instances, entire practices, leaving their businesses in shambles and their futures uncertain.
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