The US Department of Labor has reported that the US legal profession has lost 1300 jobs in the month of January.  This number appears much smaller when compared to the number of jobs lost in all fields: 598,000.  About half of the 3.6 million jobs lost since the start of the recession (December ’07) were lost in the last three months.  Let’s get back to law firms. The list of firm’s to have announced job cuts in the month of January include: Akin Gump, Cooley Godward, Fish & Richardson, Foley Hoag, McDermott Will, and Morrison & Foerster.

Source:  www.legalweek.com