A majority of companies and law firms in Canada plan on hiring additional attorneys in the next six months, according to a survey published by employment agency Robert Half International earlier this month.

Fifty-six percent of lawyers who responded to the survey said their law firms or corporate legal departments planned on adding lawyers in the first half of 2020. Of those lawyers who said their operations will be expanding, 98% said that some empty positions would likely be filled with temporary or contract workers.

The top three practice areas that law firms and corporate legal departments will be hiring for in 2020 are general business or corporate law, litigation and privacy, data security and information law, according to the report.