Scary Sign of the Times

I was listening to NPR yesterday morning and wanted to write a few words on their story about the process of replacing U.S. Attorneys.

What caught my attention was not the process itself, but the fact that even former U.S. Attorneys are having trouble finding a job!

Traditionally, once you sit as a U.S. Attorney, you pretty much get your pick of the litter for plush, marble-walled, mahogany-bookcased, high paying partnerships in the biggest firms in whatever town you were based out of...but according to the last paragraph of this article, those jobs just aren't there!

A down economy doesn't mean fewer people break the law and in fact, I'm guessing the demand for bankruptcy attorneys has increased, but the reality is a lot of the big law firms rely on representing corporate clients.

So when corporations aren't expanding, merging, acquiring, stepping on toes, going public, going private, or going anywhere, then they don't need attorneys to guide them.