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Labor/Employment

Aug. 7, 2012

Legal sector adds more jobs in July

The U.S. legal services sector added 1,400 jobs in July, pushing the total number of employees in the sector to 1,120,500, according to seasonally adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday.


By Andrew McIntyre


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The U.S. legal service sector added 1,400 jobs in July, pushing the total number of employees in that sector to 1,120,500, according to seasonally adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. That gain for legal services follows a loss of 200 jobs in June.


The economy as a whole added 163,000 nonfarm jobs in July - in part due to new hires in professional services - and unempl...

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