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Originally posted by c2ed
Months ago, my friends there were saying "nah, come on in - the water is fine here" about Fenwick. Apparently the water was being laced with nitrous then and is now filtered because their smiles are not as bright and responses to "so how are things" are whispers of "they're ok" and stories of partners who are nervously walking the hallways, trying not to hoard the work even though they aren't busy.
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If that is our threshold for when a firm is about to blow up, what firm in Silicon Valley is not about to blow up? Everyone I know has the same problem, corporate and IP partners and associates who are not busy and who show up at work every day hoping they don't get the dreaded knock on the door with a severance check and release agreement. In addition, almost every firm is looking for merger partners but not much seems to be coming out of the discussions. I wonder if the buyers are not interested, if the sellers want to much or both.
