Employment in legal occupations plummeted in January to its lowest level in almost four years, with men and women seemingly headed in diverging directions on their way out the door.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly employment data, approximately 1.72 million Americans reported holding legal jobs in January—representing a loss of 134,000 jobs since December and negating all gains that had been made since April, when the first wave of pandemic-related shutdowns brought total legal employment down to 1.73 million. Not since February 2017 has employment in legal occupations been quite this scarce.
Both men and women ...
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