For the May issue of The American Lawyer, Jacob Thomas created this dynamic full page illustration about non-equity partners (lawyers who don't actually generate any income for the company) continuing to grow in numbers in a recession.

“I kept going to the idea of someone holding on, but just barely,” explains Jacob. “I'm a big fan of turning up the action in my work; I just imagined everything exploding and falling down around this person, but some how he's managing to hold on.”