With Hurricane Katrina’s legal drama winding down, lawyers in New Orleans are starting to lose their jobs and must now search for more work. As the mass of litigation spawned by Katrina is ending, it’s time to move on to greener pastures.

And along with lawyers, some staff are being layed off, as well. “There are firms that took Katrina work right after the hurricane and that helped them bridge the last three years,” said Darnell Shuart of Shuart and Associates, a New Orleans legal headhunter. “If they have done nothing else but that work, and haven’t marketed themselves for other things, they’re in trouble right now. Some of them staffed up just to do that work.”

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