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Article: This Temp Agency Deals in Lawyers
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 7, 1995
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HARTFORD, Conn. For attorney and entrepreneur Shelley Wallace,
the recession could not have come at a better time.
After sending her twin boys off to kindergarten, Wallace set out
in 1987 to establish a temporary legal employment agency for working
mothers, like herself, who did not want to put in 12 or 14 hours a
day at the office.
At first, people scoffed at the idea of a kind of "Kelly Girl
for lawyers."
Wallace got the last laugh - twice.
Her firm, Wallace Law Registry, capitalized on recession-driven
cutbacks in corporate legal departments to grow from an office above
a gas station into a 13-city company with more than 40,000 lawyers,
paralegals and clerks on its roster.
And ...