Law Practice
Apr. 5, 2011
Legal Market Keeps Shrinking
While Friday's jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed promising signs for most in the private sector, the legal services industry dropped 500 jobs nationwide.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Broad nationwide job growth stopped short of the legal services industry last month. While the economy added 216,000 jobs in March and nosed down the nation's unemployment rate to 8.8 percent, 500 jobs disappeared in the legal sector.
The data, released Friday by the U.S. Labor Department, continue a somewhat erratic pattern in legal employment. Jobs plummeted by 3,900 last June, then rose steadily t...
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