Health care is the hot practice area for fourth-quarter hiring, according to a survey commissioned by Robert Half Legal, a legal staffing company. General business/commercial and bankruptcy/foreclosure practice areas come in second and third, respectively, regarding the most hiring in the final quarter of the year.

Of the lawyers interviewed for the survey, 32 percent say they plan to hire legal staff — mostly lawyers — during the last three months of 2012, according to the survey results, released Wednesday. That’s down 1 percentage point from the results of the company’s survey about hiring trends for the third quarter of 2012.

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