The economy has lost over 6.5 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007.While layoffs slowed down in August, law firms have been implementing several new strategies to navigate through the summer season: salary cuts and deferred and canceled summer programs, and limited offers extended to summer associates (down 50%).These are the overall combined numbers of reported U.S. law firm attorney and staff layoffs:179 (August 2009)460 (July 2009)481 (June 2009)1,125 (May 2009)1,500 (April… [read post]