Mark Wada’s Portland-based law firm, Farleigh Wada Witt, has hired three new lawyers because of the boom in business from the banking industry. Photo by Anthony Pidgeon.
In a down economy lawyers who practice bankruptcy, insolvency, and other kinds of financial law see an upswing in business.
But for the ethically minded lawyer, working long hours to help businesses dissolve is a double-edged sword.
I write about this dilemma in my article in Oregon Business Magazine, Bankruptcy Lawyers Cash In.
Another business that’s booming in this recession?
Artisanal coffee.
Noble Coffee Roasting, which opened about a year and a half ago in Ashland, Oregon has more work than they can handle.
Co-founder Jared Rennie is the subject of a profile I’m working on now, also for Oregon Business Magazine. Stay tuned.
