I’m starting to wonder if Investment Banker has lost his job. That’s not some archetype, by the way, it’s legalweek.com’s popular lawyer-turned-banker-turned guerrilla poster/blogger, who has infuriated and entertained readers in equal measure (contrary to some readers’ beliefs, we haven’t made him up).

Investment BankerExtrapolating Investment Banker’s position, I got to wondering what life will be like for that group of lawyers that quit the law for banking during the boom years. Now that banking faces tougher times, will most stick it out, go back to the profession or do something else entirely?