{"id":150823,"date":"2026-05-08T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/08\/sure-biglaw-layoffs-are-trending-but-not-like-2009-trending\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:42:25","slug":"sure-biglaw-layoffs-are-trending-but-not-like-2009-trending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/08\/sure-biglaw-layoffs-are-trending-but-not-like-2009-trending\/","title":{"rendered":"Sure, Biglaw Layoffs Are Trending, But Not Like 2009 Trending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>While there\u2019s a<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/first-the-litigation-partners-left-paul-weiss-now-associates-are-being-pushed-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0sudden relevance<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/newly-merged-top-20-biglaw-firms-growing-pains-include-layoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biglaw layoffs<\/a>, it\u2019s not nearly as dire as the past. How many lawyers were laid off in Biglaw (based on self-reported numbers) in 2009, widely considered <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2016\/09\/what-the-2009-legal-layoffs-were-really-like\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the worst year<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/layoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lawyer layoffs<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Even this scary number is likely an underestimate, given the prevalence of <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/first-the-litigation-partners-left-paul-weiss-now-associates-are-being-pushed-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stealth layoffs<\/a> and Biglaw firms underreporting their real cuts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/sure-biglaw-layoffs-are-trending-but-not-like-2009-trending\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sure, Biglaw Layoffs Are Trending, But Not Like 2009 Trending<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>While there\u2019s a<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/first-the-litigation-partners-left-paul-weiss-now-associates-are-being-pushed-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0sudden relevance<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/newly-merged-top-20-biglaw-firms-growing-pains-include-layoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biglaw layoffs<\/a>, it\u2019s not nearly as dire as the past. How many lawyers were laid off in Biglaw (based on self-reported numbers) in 2009, widely considered <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2016\/09\/what-the-2009-legal-layoffs-were-really-like\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the worst year<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/layoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lawyer layoffs<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Even this scary number is likely an underestimate, given the prevalence of <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/first-the-litigation-partners-left-paul-weiss-now-associates-are-being-pushed-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stealth layoffs<\/a> and Biglaw firms underreporting their real cuts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/sure-biglaw-layoffs-are-trending-but-not-like-2009-trending\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/sure-biglaw-layoffs-are-trending-but-not-like-2009-trending\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! While there\u2019s a\u00a0sudden relevance to Biglaw layoffs, it\u2019s not nearly as dire as the past. How many lawyers were laid off in Biglaw (based on self-reported numbers) in 2009, widely considered the worst year for lawyer layoffs? Hint: Even this scary number is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-157442852-scaled-0l7GPq.jpg?fit=2560%2C1703&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}