Addition of 1,000 Jobs Makes September a Bounce-Back Month for Legal Sector

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The legal sector's employment roller coaster ride continued last month as the industry added 1,000 jobs, according to preliminary data that was released on Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The September data shows that 5,900 more people are employed in the legal sector now than were at the same point last year, and that the industry has seen a net gain of 2,900 jobs since the start of 2012.


Friday's report raises the total number of people employed in the legal sector above 1.12 million, a figure that—with the exception of July 2012—the industry had not reached since July 2009. Prior to the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, the legal industry regularly employed roughly 1.17 million people.


Overall, the U.S. economy added 114,000 jobs in September, and the nation's unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent, its lowest point since President Obama took office almost four years ago.