In news that should temper the “optimistic enough” outlook on legal hiring presented by the Robert Half Legal Hiring Survey that we discussed in this space last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released new job numbers. According to the Wall Street Journal, the economy added 200,000 jobs in December 2011, but the legal sector lost about 1,800. From December 2010 to December 2011, the sector lost approximately 2,700.
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