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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many associates, some work is better than no work at all. The legal industry has seen its share of layoffs in recent months - according to industry website Lawshucks.com, at least 2,100 attorneys have been laid off in 2009, bringing the total to more than 3,000 since January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law-School Grads See Promised Jobs Put On Hold | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Ward Bower, principal at Altman Weil, a legal management consulting firm in Newtown Square, Pa., predicts many U.S.-based law firms will earn nearly 10% less in 2009 than they did in 2008 - performance that threatens to cause upheaval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law-School Grads See Promised Jobs Put On Hold | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Valdivieso certainly is not the only casualty of creative downsizing in the legal industry these days. As the nation's economic climate flounders and legal work dries up, a growing number of large and midsize law firms are eschewing layoffs by redistributing or deferring young associates instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law-School Grads See Promised Jobs Put On Hold | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...dissent, there were always some signs of hope and potential advances on other fronts," says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with the New York-based Human Rights Watch. "But recently the good news has been very few and far between. There has been a total lack of progress on legal reform, the media, rural reform, labor. These issues were very much carrying forward hope for opening up of Chinese society, but now there's just nothing on the horizon." (Read "China Takes on the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As China's Olympic Glow Fades, So Do Hopes for Reform | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...related development, a Beijing law firm known for defending dissidents and others seeking redress from the authorities was shut down for six months in late February. The Yitong law firm, which defended dissident Hu Jia who is now serving a three-year sentence for subversion, was ordered shut by legal authorities, ostensibly for allowing one of its lawyers to work at the firm without a license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As China's Olympic Glow Fades, So Do Hopes for Reform | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

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