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| Law firms lay off attorneys, staff Friday, October 17, 2008 at 5:57 a.m. CHICAGO, IL (AP) -- As their corporate clients show the financial strain resulting from the nation's sagging economy, major law firms are beginning to respond with cut backs of staff. |
| Law Firms Concentrate on Getting Paid Lax attitudes toward collections may have been acceptable at law firms during fat economic times, but those times are over for many. Katzman Garfinkel, a 37-lawyer firm, adopted a new approach to collections in its computerized system that tracks billable |
| Where will the economy go from here? It’s all too clear that the economy is in a rough patch. The dollar’s weak, energy and food costs are high, the stock market is down, oil is at record levels, and housing values have lost years of gains. What’s next? |
| Bush says rebate checks will boost ailing economy U.S. President George W. Bush sought to assure Americans on Saturday that federal checks en route to them as part of a stimulus plan will help spur the ailing economy and pay for soaring gas and food prices. |
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