Morgan Lewis's Robert J. Smith said he hopes his focus on employment law will attract ailing companies planning layoffs. Some fear layoffs loom for lawyers, too. No firms have confessed to tapping associates on the shoulder and urging them to take the next several months to find employment elsewhere. But some large-firm managers suspect that's what's happening in Silicon Valley firms, which launched last year's arms race of salaries. The number of r sum s we're seeing and denials of layoffs by other firms are hard to square.
Firms are still eager to trumpet their presence in Northern Virginia.
Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand prominently features its McLean office on its Web site. But it isn't staffed full-time and Verner leases the small space from lawyer Bud Rader , a former Verner partner. Hearsay goes public every other week in Washington Business. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.