The U.S. legal services sector added 1,200 jobs in December, continuing a trend of growth over the final four months of 2015, according to seasonally adjusted preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The legal industry employed 1,128,000 people in December, according to BLS’ preliminary figures. Friday’s estimates account for 8,000 more people working in legal services than in the same period in 2014. The number is also up from a revised preliminary total of 1,126,800 legal services jobs in November.
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