Subject to the usual revision, statistics show a small decrease in jobs in May. Year over year, the increase was 7,800; 14,200 over May 2011 and 16,200 over May 2010. The industry grew, or at least didn't shrink, at an average annual rate of about 0.5% over the last three years.
Basically, if you graduated law school in this era then statistically you're now doing something non-law-related while your student debt follows you around. Here's an example, who was once noted in Big Debt, Small Law after he showed up here. I encourage you lemmings (Hi!, Mr. Infinity) to get yourself quoted frequently in the media so I'll have lots of future Where Are They Now material to work with.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm
| Not seasonally adjusted | May | 2012 | 1,118,000 | |
| March | 2013 | 1,123,100 | ||
| April | 2013 | 1,125,900 | ||
| May | 2013 | 1,127,600 | 9,600 | |
| Seasonally adjusted | May | 2012 | 1,121,500 | |
| March | 2013 | 1,128,200 | ||
| April | 2013 | 1,129,800 | ||
| May | 2013 | 1,129,300 | 7,800 | |
| Change from Apr-13 to May-13 | -500 |
