Total legal services employment gained about 2,300 jobs in April from March, according to the latest data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The total number of legal jobs recorded rose to roughly 1.122 million. The increase more than made up for the 1,200 jobs lost the previous month, according to seasonally adjusted preliminary data. The legal services employment picture comes amid a modest increase of 223,000 nonfarm jobs in April, just below what economists had predicted. The overall unemployment rate in the U.S. stood at 5.4 percent, slightly better than in March.
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