经济危机对中国法律服务业的影响

由美国次贷危机引发的金融危机愈演愈烈，演变成为一场波及全球的经济危机。在全球整体经济下滑、金融动荡的环境中，法律服务业作为相互关联产业中的一环．不可避免同样受到了波及和重大影响。这主要表现在经济低迷导致法律服务的需求下降。虽然公司面临破产、裁员以及贸易纠纷等问题，增加了一部分破产、劳动仲裁、民商事纠纷等业务，但不会改变法律服务业受全球总体经济拖累的大趋势。

mpacts of Economic Crisis on China＇s Legal Service Sector

The financial crisis sparked by the subprime loan crisis in the United States has become in-creasingly intense, eventually turning out to be a global economic crisis. Under the situation of global economic downturn and financial disturbances, the legal service sector - a link in the chain of interrelated sectors or industries - has inevitably been affected and seriously impacted, with the consequence mainly manifested with lower de- mand for legal service as a result of economic depression. Although the situation of companies on the brink of bankruptcy, layoffs, trade disputes, etc have resulted in increases in the business of handling cases of bankruptcy, labor arbitration, civil or commercial disputes, etc,