http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/business/18suits.html?em

Is it time for your firm to establish a “Task Force” to address client issues related to the $700 billion bailout plan?

How law firms are coping with the economy

http://www.wislawjournal.com/article.cfm/2008/10/20/Law-firms-cope-with-economy

Layoffs Hit Attorneys, Staff at Katten and Sonnenschein Firms

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202425362037

Is this another Dot.com bust?

Online real estate firm Zillow.com cuts 40

http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2008/10/13/daily52.html

Some of these Layoffs Aren’t Really Layoffs.  Really?  What do you call it then if I was working and now me and the other 20 people I was working with were just told not to come back in on Monday?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/17/some-of-these-layoffs-arent-really-layoffs/

Follow up to the bombing of a Georgia law firm.

Suspect dead, 4 hurt in Ga. law office explosion

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iOwPNUoWwVC_5bRsUWNA1R5JLhswD93SL6UG0

It sure doesn’t seem like Canadian employers are having any trouble with the economy, particularly when it comes to providing perks for its employees.

Employee perks keep ‘em happy

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=1e2832f9-0382-4973-84c1-37b745f84e33

http://hellerdrone.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/todays-terminations/

Are Law Firms and Lawyers Being Targeted With Bombs? 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,439801,00.html

http://www.abajournal.com/news/st_louis_lawyer_injured_by_parking_lot_package_bomb/

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10711740

Chaos and Unemployment at “Big Law”

http://endofesq.com/?p=356

Things are moving out the door fast at Heller. Print it and Forget It.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/new_heller_layoffs_axed_secretary_tells_of_disappearing_copiers

“Big Law” Layoffs Continue

http://www.abajournal.com/news/katten_lays_off_21_attorneys_sonnenschein_lays_off_24

What Summer Program?

http://www.abajournal.com/news/recruiter_summer_associate_positions_could_decline_by_up_to_35/

Apparently, Layoff Worries Were High Before Market Meltdown, Survey Says http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1202425328019

What is your opinion.  Did you, or your firm foresee the downturn?  What were the signs?  How has it changed the way you, or your firm is operating?  No more monthly parties?  They removed the latte machine?  Apparently, at Heller they removed a printer, while people were still using it.  Sounds like an old Three Stooges episode. http://www.abajournal.com/news/new_heller_layoffs_axed_secretary_tells_of_disappearing_copiers

Poor Thelen!  I used to work there back in the day when it was still called Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, so I will give full disclosure that I have a special place in my heart for them.  That was before merger mania, and when we used to say ”Uncle Max” [Thelen] was picking up our expenses when we had a party, or catered breakfast every Friday morning.  This was before all “Big Law” brought in full kitchens with free food all day.   I had a lot of good times at Thelen working for them at both their San Jose and Los Angeles offices, but the recent news doesn’t sound good.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/thelen_asks_other_firms_to_hire_away_practice_groups/