With a huge 6,600-position growth over the last twelve months, and almost 15K over the last three years, the legal industry is on fire!
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm
| Not seasonally adjusted | September | 2012 | 1,116,700 | |
| July | 2013 | 1,136,800 | ||
| August | 2013 | 1,130,300 | ||
| September | 2013 | 1,123,800 | 7,100 | |
| Seasonally adjusted | September | 2012 | 1,123,700 | |
| July | 2013 | 1,126,100 | ||
| August | 2013 | 1,129,200 | ||
| September | 2013 | 1,130,300 | 6,600 | |
| Change from Aug-13 to Sep-13 | 1,100 |
And those 6,600 jobs are surely going to be enough for the roughly 45,000 JDs who received their degrees in that span.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nalp.org/uploads/NationalSummaryChart2012.pdf
Hell, the JD Class of 2012 had 46,364 members - competing for 28,567 jobs requiring bar passage.