A China stop hits China-client matters and cross-border deals, not the domestic docket. Lawyers held about 863,700 jobs in 2025. Legal services was 52 percent of that employment. Self-employed workers were 11 percent. The wage table does not cover self-employed lawyers or partners of unincorporated firms.
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The opened large-firm book is a sample, not a census of offices. Data is based on reported results from 184 US-based law firms. The sample includes 50 Am Law 100 firms. The sample includes 58 Am Law Second Hundred firms. The sample includes 76 Midsize firms. Demand in that report means total billable hours worked.
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The short billing analog is a quarter, not a year-over-year peak alone. The third quarter marked a 3.9 percent year-over-year demand increase for the average firm. The page also prints growth averaging 2.5 percent and hitting as high as 4.4 percent growth in July, and a full-year figure of 1.9 percent. Those three prints are not averaged here.
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Domestic litigation is the largest practice share in the sample and it continues when a Chinese client cannot instruct. Litigation was 27 percent of the prior-year billable-time proportion. Corporate work was 24 percent of that proportion. Mergers and acquisitions work was 4 percent of that proportion. Bankruptcy was 2 percent of that proportion. None of those shares is a China-client share.
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The court docket that does not need a Chinese buyer stayed open in fiscal year 2025. Civil case filings were 303,563. That civil count increased 4 percent. Total filings in the district courts grew 6 percent to 382,692. Criminal defendant filings climbed 13 percent to 79,129.
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Sanctions advice is a product of this industry, and the fetched demand print is enforcement, not firm fees. The 2025 civil-penalty chart shows 14 penalties, settlements, or findings of violation. The penalties and settlements total is 265,746,819 dollars. A BIS export-control caseload was not on the pages opened.
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The opened Taiwan footprint is a firm office and a matter book, not a foundry share. Jones Day established the Taipei Office in 1990. The location page says Jones Day is the only worldwide partnership in Taiwan with lawyers qualified in both U.S. and Taiwan law. The careers page says the Asia presence includes two offices in Mainland China, Beijing and Shanghai. The Taipei list is historical, not a fee run-rate.
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The current China book is unpublished. The China-client share of hours is unpublished, and it is not derived from the corporate-hours share of 24 percent. The International Trade Administration page reprints Bureau of Economic Analysis Table 2.2 for 2019, and that historical reprint shows China legal-services exports of 675 million dollars. The Bureau of Economic Analysis expanded page says that for 2025, U.S. exports of services were 1,237.9 billion dollars, and it does not print a legal-services-to-China row. The 1,237.9 billion dollar total is all services. It is not the legal-export dollar.
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The client file is the cyber target. Paralegals and legal assistants held about 404,900 jobs in 2025, and the handbook says they maintain and organize files. Legal services was 75 percent of paralegal employment. CISA tells counsel that cybersecurity is a top concern for general counsel. The CISA lawyers page has no day count. The subpoena request applied to 298 public company and other SEC-regulated clients. Wave order on top of those pages is a planning model.
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China trade stopping removes instructions from Chinese clients and stops new cross-border deals that need a Chinese party. The corporate and mergers shares above are the whole sample, not a China slice. The China-client share of hours is unpublished. It is not derived from the corporate-hours share of 24 percent. The domestic docket figures stay the measured continuation book.
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Sanctions and export-control advice moves the other way. Clients already produced 14 public OFAC outcomes in 2025 totaling 265,746,819 dollars. That dollar figure is government penalties and settlements. It is demand for advice. It is not law-firm revenue.
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Domestic litigation does not clear through a Chinese buyer. Litigation was 27 percent of the prior-year billable-time proportion, larger than corporate work at 24 percent. District-court civil case filings were 303,563 in fiscal year 2025.
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Taiwan in this industry is a practice and a matter book. The Taipei page lists Micron's concurrent acquisitions of Elpida at 2.5 billion dollars and Rexchip at 335 million dollars, Micron's take-private of Inotera at 6 billion dollars, the Hermes Microvision sale to ASML at 3.1 billion dollars, and the SPIL and ASE holding-company transaction at 5.7 billion dollars. Those are historical matter values on the firm page. The Taipei list is historical, not a fee run-rate.
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A slowed Taiwan export book shows up as fewer new cross-border instructions for the Taipei office, not as a missing chip inside the law firm. The page does not print a Taiwan share of U.S. large-firm revenue. A foundry share is not used.
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The week-1 operating break is the client file and the time-and-billing system. Paralegals maintain and organize files. The handbook says legal services employs 75 percent of paralegals and legal assistants. The subpoena request applied to 298 public company and other SEC-regulated clients. The opinion dates the malicious activity over the course of approximately four months and does not print a day count. The CISA lawyers page has no day count. The labeled foreign analog is a calculated publication gap of 39 days.
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