Legal sector
Legal Sector Loses 700 Jobs in May While Other White Collar Sectors Add Jobs
June 19, 2014
This makes it the second month in a row that the legal sector has lost jobs. Further, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has revised downward the job losses in April from 1,200 to 2,100. That means, according to the AmLaw Daily, that the number of people employed by the legal sector has hit its lowest point since the start of the year. This stands in stark contrast to the better than expected job growth generally across the economy over the past two months including more than 55,000 business and professional...
June 19, 2014
This makes it the second month in a row that the legal sector has lost jobs. Further, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has revised downward the job losses in April from 1,200 to 2,100. That means, according to the AmLaw Daily, that the number of people employed by the legal sector has hit its lowest point since the start of the year. This stands in stark contrast to the better than expected job growth generally across the economy over the past two months including more than 55,000 business and professional...
Report: Legal Sector Added 2,000 Jobs Last Month
February 10, 2014
The legal sector gained 2,000 jobs in January, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. With the additions, the industry now employs 1.135 million people—7,000 more than it did at the same time last year but substantially fewer than the 1.18 million it employed at its prerecession peak. January's uptick on the employment front follows a three-month run that, according to revised, seasonally adjusted hiring figures included in Friday's report, saw the legal...
February 10, 2014
The legal sector gained 2,000 jobs in January, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. With the additions, the industry now employs 1.135 million people—7,000 more than it did at the same time last year but substantially fewer than the 1.18 million it employed at its prerecession peak. January's uptick on the employment front follows a three-month run that, according to revised, seasonally adjusted hiring figures included in Friday's report, saw the legal...
Legal sector adds 2,800 jobs in July
August 14, 2013
Based on last Friday's report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics courtesy of the AmLaw Daily. There's more encouraging news, relatively speaking, in that the BLS revised the figures from May and June to reflect fewer legal sector job losses than originally estimated - 2,100 instead of 2,900 and 2,700 instead of 3,600, respectively. The AmLaw Daily further reports that since April, when the legal sector employed 1.129 million people - the highest number total since 2009 - it has suffered...
August 14, 2013
Based on last Friday's report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics courtesy of the AmLaw Daily. There's more encouraging news, relatively speaking, in that the BLS revised the figures from May and June to reflect fewer legal sector job losses than originally estimated - 2,100 instead of 2,900 and 2,700 instead of 3,600, respectively. The AmLaw Daily further reports that since April, when the legal sector employed 1.129 million people - the highest number total since 2009 - it has suffered...
