Ohio’s roughly 35,000 attorneys and the firms that employ them have adjusted to the recession in ways that literally might be described as all over the map — expanding into markets such as Kentucky, Florida, California or elsewhere in the Midwest.

The state has lost one in eight jobs that existed in 2000. Local firms have cut associates accordingly and curtailed or eliminated summer associates programs. Others have leveraged their expertise to meet the new reality — M&A becomes “troubled M&A.”