Over the past few months, a number of economists and market watchers have begun to pull back from the notion that an economic downturn is likely in 2020, but, according to this year’s Pennsylvania Managing Partner survey, law firm leaders in the state are still preparing to make cuts.

While just two of the 32 respondents to last year’s survey, or just over 6%, predicted lawyer layoffs between June 2018 and June 2019, six of the 30 respondents (20%) said they foresee lawyer cuts at some point between June 2019 and June 2020.