These practice groups have been especially hard hit by tightening credit markets and an aversion to mortgage - backed securities. (amlawdaily.typepad.com)
Law professor Jack Williams of Georgia State University noted that smaller businesses, which are traditionally represented by small firms or solos, are also in distress because of tightening credit markets and declining retail sales. (legalblogwatch.typepad.com)
Partners at several firms say the second half of the year was tough amid tightening credit markets worldwide, boding ill for the first half of 2012. (amlawdaily.typepad.com)