A woman wipes the door handles before entering a Walgreens store in Baltimore on March 24, a day after Gov. Larry Hogan ordered the closure of all nonessential businesses in the state. (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)
To the surprise of no one, the April jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed massive employment losses, totaling over 20 million positions for the month, and legal jobs were no exception.
The legal sector showed a net loss of 64,000 jobs—a decline dozens of times larger than the fluctuations normally seen by the industry. The overall unemployment rate across industries stands at 14.7%, according to BLS data, higher than any time since the Great Depression.
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