That brings the year to date job loss at 2,000 according to the tally kept by the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. And according to their calculations, it means the legal sector (which includes legal consultants, paralegals, process servers, notaries and patent agents, among other non-lawyer legal service professionals) is down approximately 45,000 jobs since the pre-recession record number of jobs set in May, 2007. Check out the full WSJLB report here. Or if you prefer you can get the Bureau of Labor Statistics October report here.

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