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US Legal Market Lost 7000 Jobs in 2008

Monday, January 12, 2009

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US Legal Market Lost 7000 Jobs in 2008

According to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal services industry in the United States shed some 7,000 jobs between December 2007 and December 2008. The numbers include lawyers, paralegals, public relations specialists, secretaries and other positions; and reflect layoffs by firms nationwide over the last few months, and the dissolutions of Am Law 100 firms [...]

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