Legal Sector’s Job Gains Stall as Big Law Firms Lay Off Staff

Here are the day’s top coronavirus stories from the team at Bloomberg Law:

• LEGAL SECTOR JOBS: The modest uptick in legal employment over the summer has stalled, reflecting struggles by the sector with continued pandemic fallout as some big firms this month announce layoffs. Law firms and other offices added no jobs by mid-August, the Labor Department reported Friday.
• PAID-LEAVE RULE: The U.S. Labor Department sent an updated rule on coronavirus-related paid leave requirements to the White House for final review, setting up the administration’s first response to a court decision that shot down key aspects of the ...