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. Although momentum had slowed in the two months before that, legal sector job gains were still recorded.
Non-farm payrolls for the broader economy increased by 1.37 million in August, the Labor Department said in reporting seasonally adjusted data.
The legal industry employs about 1.1 million in law firms and other offices. It imposed austerity measures in response ...
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