Mark Bennett on Contract Attorneys

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Mark Bennett of Defending People picks up on a tweet about contract attorneys,

National Law Journal (H/T Omar Ha-Redeye)notes the decline of business for contract attorneys:

As law firms downsize, laid-off attorneys and new law school graduates unable to find jobs have been turning to an option they may never have imagined at law school: becoming contract attorneys — hired guns [or, more aptly, cannon fodder] for $35 an hour.Yet in the past couple of months, even that field appears to be showing signs of a slowdown.

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