“If the performance in the first quarter continues, the firm will not be able to survive in its present form.”

The managing partner of a large D.C. firm issued that grim warning to his colleagues on April 3, 1993, in the wake of the last national recession. Law firms shared in the boom of the 1980s, and then felt the pain when the nation’s economy deflated in the early 1990s.

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