The news from the legal frontline has been worsening over the past few months. As Yogi Bear once famously put it “It’s deja vu time all over again.” The current downturn in the legal market echoes that of the early 1990s as jobs in the legal services industries disappear daily and tales of restructuring, redeployment and career-enhancing moves surface in law firms, large and small.
Lawyers scrabbling to avoid such a euphemistic fate are entitled to think not just of their employer’s well-being in these lean times. They need plans, tactics and clear goals that focus on their own success and security. Where to start?
