Corporate M&A work takes a nosedive on local, national levels 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, June 16, 2008
By Dan Heilman

When word got out at the end of last month that the Chicago-based firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal had laid off 37 lawyers and 87 other employees in response to the receding economy, the natural inclination for the leaders of Twin Cities law firms was to ask: Could it happen here?In fact, that was ...