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There’s extra warning indicators popping up, even on the strategic facet.
Just about each managing accomplice I do know [is] extra cautious about predicting how nicely their agency goes to do that yr.
— Blane Prescott, legislation agency administration guide at MesaFive, in feedback given to the American Lawyer, regarding deal work stock this yr, and the dearth thereof for sure corporations. In comparison with this time final yr, some legislation corporations are “immediately see their workloads getting slightly lighter,” he stated, “and that’s began to make them nervous.”

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