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The nation is going through difficult economic times. In reaction to this, about three of the law schools in Missouri have decreased their number of applications.

The legal industry is going through a crisis situation because the fresh law school graduates are finding it harder to get jobs and salaries have considerably dropped over the past few months.

It is not only planning to offer current employees an opportunity to move to Nashville, but also looking forward to recruit nearly 150 employees in the new office.

The BLS report shows a net loss of 1,500 jobs in 2011in the legal industry so far, after a fluctuation in the first half of the year, and has lost nearly 3,500 jobs since September 2010.

This is because many grads of Austin's School of Law are cartoonists, service dog trainers, and wind farm employees.

According to the new reports by the National Association for Law Placement, the job market for law school graduates is worsening since the mid-1990s.

The job placement rate for the class of 2010 was 80 percent which is 5 percent less from that of 2009's class. The New York Times has phrased this as the worst recession in the legal profession's history.

Survey of an AM Law Daily found that 17 national firms employing at least 20 second year students. The report shows an average of 62 students from each firm are offered jobs this year, which translates it to an average rate of 97%.

A substantial decrease in the new student enrollment has been reported in the University of California-Los Angeles by 16 percent, while in the University of Michigan by 14 percent.

Despite the retrenchment in summer programs' recruitment nationwide, offices of major firms in Washington are about to hire the same number of associates as 2011, for summer 2012.