I was rocked like by a hurricane, thus the post's tardiness.
There was a modest increase over September 2012, but given the gummint's penchant for revising initial numbers by thousands, it might was well be random. Year-over-year netted 6,600 positions but consider this: the legal profession industry boasted 1,115,900 jobs in October 2010, giving an anemic two-year growth of 5,700 jobs.
If you want to bet $200K on strong, sustained growth in the legal market, be my guest.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm
| Not seasonally adjusted | October | 2011 | 1,115,800 | |
| August | 2012 | 1,120,300 | ||
| September | 2012 | 1,114,500 | ||
| October | 2012 | 1,121,900 | 6,100 | |
| Seasonally adjusted | October | 2011 | 1,115,000 | |
| August | 2012 | 1,119,700 | ||
| September | 2012 | 1,121,000 | ||
| October | 2012 | 1,121,600 | 6,600 | |
| Change from Sep-12 to Oct-12 | 600 |
