Law Practice
May 12, 2009
The Legal Market Gets Worse, But Pace of Decline Slows
With 3,700 positions cut, April marked the second-largest decline in legal services jobs since the recession began. Legal jobs have declined for 13 of the last 14 months.
Daily Journal Staff Writer More than 3,700 jobs were lost in the legal sector during April, marking the second-largest monthly legal job loss since the recession began, according to the latest report issued Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The legal services sector has lost 28,600 jobs - over a third of the jobs that were created since the last recession ended in November 2001 - since the current downturn began in Decembe...
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