Shrinkage at Day Casebeer Shows IP Litigators No Longer Immune to Recession

Even a tiny law firm whose bread is buttered by relatively recession-proof patent litigation has had to lay off lawyers. As of last summer, Day Casebeer, the Silicon Valley firm of high-end IP boutique fame and Qualcomm discovery fiasco infamy, was 38 lawyers strong. Today, the firm has 27 lawyers. So what's the deal with cutting lawyers when most every layoff has been blamed on a slowdown in corporate work? The guy who makes the sun rise at the firm explained that there were two causes for the cuts.