July has become one of the best months in overall job growth since the start of the pandemic. The legal industry claimed a small portion of those jobs - 3,300 over the past 30 days. Across all industries, total employment rose by almost one million jobs, and unemployment rates fell by 0.5% - 5.4% (with pre-pandemic unemployment rates hovering around 3.5%).

Across the economy generally, work-from-home-based positions are continuing to fall in Q3. In May 2020, more than 33% of US workers were working from home compared to 13% now.

There were 1,138,400 total legal jobs in July indicating both an increase over corrected June and May numbers as well as an overestimation by previous BLS figures. The bureau reported 1,138,500 legal jobs in May, when the agency released a report in early June, but corrected May figures from the latest report show 7,000 fewer jobs for that month.