While mass layoffs at big law firms have grabbed headlines in recent months, in-house attorneys also have had their jobs taken away. Relatively few lawyers are being let go as part of mass corporate layoffs, in part because legal departments aren’t that big to start with and because the bigger cost often isn’t a company’s own lawyers, but the ones it hires from law firms. Out-of-work in-house lawyers are better off on the hopelessly unemployed scale than their law firm counterparts, recruiters say.
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