As job gains remained nearly flat across the U.S. economy, the legal services industry added 600 jobs in February—one out of every 33 new nonfarm jobs last month—continuing a trend of moderate gains and losses for the industry over the last several months, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The federal agency’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that 1,142,700 people worked in the legal sector in February, a figure that includes lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries and other professions related to the law. The BLS data is provisional, meaning it could be revised later, and it is seasonally adjusted.

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