TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 9, 2026

There are more people than ever working in the U.S. legal sector according to preliminary data released by the U.S. Labor Department and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Reuters reports that legal sector employment totaled a record-breaking 1,208,100 jobs last month. The count includes a range of legal workers at companies, law firms, government agencies and nonprofits, including paralegals and assistants. Overall U.S. employment growth slowed more than expected in December amid job losses in the construction, retail and manufacturing sectors, but the unemployment rate dropped to 4.4%.