A brief article appearing in the Recorder and on the Legal Pad blog (via law.com) reports on a survey commissioned by one of the major legal staffing companies, Robert Half International.
100 lawyers (at firms with 20 or more employees) and 100 in-house lawyers (at companies with at least 1000 employees) were surveyed.
59% expect no change in the number of full-time legal personnel at their employer in the 4th quarter of 2010. 29% expect an increase (though the survey apparently did not inquire into the extent of the expected increase). 6% expect a decrease.