Law Practice
Mar. 13, 2020
Legal industry facing down pandemic pandemonium
Larry Watanabe of legal placement firm Watanabe LLC said the fiscal year’s going to severely sting throughout the legal market. “Far too much global uncertainty” and an already-devastated market made it difficult for Watanabe to see how any major law firm would hit their 2020 budget.
Terrorist attacks, financial crashes and more have caused a lot of unrest over Larry Watanabe's 31 years in legal recruitment. But he says it's all paled in comparison to the dread caused by COVID-19.
"I've never seen anything like this," said Watanabe, a partner at the California legal placement firm Watanabe LLC. "Nothing has even been a blip on the radar like this."
Watanabe said most major law ...
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