Sure Looking Like Things Are Slowing Down

"I am being asked to leave my firm after just a year at a V30ish due to work slowdown in California. I am a lower tier T14 grad from 2021. I asked where else is hiring and they suggested staff attorney is a viable option for now because other firms may not want to hire right now." - Posting on Reddit Big Law, August 26, 2022. Here is the thread. 


"Big Law Will Likely 'Right-Size' Attorney Ranks Through Attrition, Performance Reviews" - Law.com, August 26, 2022.

It's palpable: A slowing down in the law firm sector. Associates should prepare for stealth layoffs and non-equity partners could be nudged out. 

Meanwhile, who gets the work has become the story. That's why Law.com covered that, despite the recent dog days in dealmaking, Paul Weiss did pick up business for its M&A practice. Yeah, it got the work.

On Reddit Big Law there is speculation that law firm niches such as M&A will pick up in September. But that could be magical thinking. No one knows. 

Because no one does know, there is an escalation of calls into my intuitive career coaching practice. That dynamic is pervasive among both employees and one-time successful business owners. This afternoon a consultant requested a Tarot reading for when her enterprise would pick up. During the past seven months it had retreated from what would have been on an annual basis a $450k gross to $75k gross. 

Incidentally, in April 2021, establishment The New York Times saluted the Tarot as a tool for self-awarenss. According to IBIS, the market size for psychic services in the US is about $2 billion, employing almost 91,000. If the slow-down keeps overtaking so many sectors, I will probably have to hire contract coaches to keep up with the demand for guidance.

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