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Labor/Employment

May 26, 2017

Altman Weil report outlines emerging law firm trends

Demand for legal services is low, law firms are overstaffed, and lawyers are underperforming, according to legal consulting firm Altman Weil, Inc.'s ninth annual "Law Firms in Transition" report, which was released Tuesday

By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Demand for legal services is low, law firms are overstaffed, and lawyers are underperforming, according to legal consulting firm Altman Weil Inc.'s ninth annual "Law Firms in Transition" report.

Eighty-eight percent of chairs and managing partners who responded to the study said that their firms have "chronically underperforming lawyers," and 61 percent reported tha...

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