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Law Practice

Jan. 19, 2011

Study Suggests Firms Get Creative

The report forecasts that demand for legal services, which has shrunk over each of the past seven quarters, will enter a protracted period of "sluggish growth" in 2011.


By Ben Adlin


Daily Journal Staff Writer


"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that."


This telling epigraph, a quotation from Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," precedes a new study about the legal market published by Hildebrandt Baker Robbins and Citi Private Bank. Its thrust: Firms aren't out ...

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