At least 73 law firms based in Chicago borrowed between $120-268 million from the federal government in an effort to keep lawyers and staff on the payrolls at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

That money from the Paycheck Protection Program would safeguard at least 8,400 law firm jobs, according to the applications law firms filed with the U.S. Small Business Administration, which released information about the PPP recipients earlier this week.

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