Analysts widely cheered Friday’s monthly jobs report, which showed the strongest overall employment growth since February. But not everyone is celebrating: The legal services sector lost an estimated 200 jobs last month, according to the U.S. Labor Department.

The legal sector—including lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries and other law-related professions—employed 1,135,600 people in May, according to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The seasonally adjusted figures, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday morning, are provisional and could be revised.

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