Posted May 3, 2018, 2:31 pm CDT
The number of active attorneys in the United States has increased by 15.2 percent over the last decade, according to the ABA’s National Lawyer Population Survey. The total number of lawyers in the United States as of Dec. 31 was 1,338,678. Ten years before that, the total number was 1,162,124. The last time there were fewer than 1 million lawyers in the United States was 1998, when there were 985,921 lawyers, according to the ABA’s historical data going back to 1878. But while the annual survey is useful for studying trends, the numbers for the survey are based on data submitted by state bar associations or licensing agencies, and those entities sometimes change their reporting standards. For example, in the 2018 survey, Oklahoma appeared to have 13.2 percent fewer attorneys than in 2017. But that was because of a shift in how the Oklahoma Bar Association classified senior attorneys; while Oklahoma attorneys can practice after the age of 70, they are no longer tallied as “resident active attorneys” in the state’s official counts. The Virgin Islands’ 2018 data was also not completely comparable to its 2017 statistics, because in 2017 they changed how they tallied active and inactive attorneys, and in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the territory was unable to confirm residency numbers. In raw numbers, the five states reporting the highest number of resident active lawyers were:- New York – 177,035
- California – 170,044
- Texas – 90,485
- Florida – 78,244
- Illinois – 63,422
https://www.forlawfirmsonly.com/lawyer-population-15-higher-than-10-years-ago-new-aba-data-shows/
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