According to the Current Population Survey, 1. As for the denominator, national and state populations appear via FRED. Easy peasy. But before continuing, a quick warning:. WARNING : I suspect some people, including university administrators, have used the data on this page to argue that there is an attorney shortage in one state or another.
This is very, very, very wrong. There is no evidence of a general shortage of lawyers anywhere in the United States. Those who use these data to argue that deliberately mislead their audiences by failing to recognize that having a law license and working as an attorney are not the same thing. Please be honest with your audience by understanding the entire page as presented. Furthermore, demand for legal services is dependent on the level of economic activity in a region, so it makes sense that sparsely populated states have lower lawyer densities.
For more information, read the Lawyer Overproduction page. Some states include nonresident active attorneys or resident nonactive attorneys in their lawyer counts. And here is the same data by BEA region along with a chart depicting the change in lawyer concentration by region since There might be a correlation between active and resident status and bar authorities that require significant fees, CLE requirements, and pro bono work.
Next, here are the numbers of employed lawyers per capita by state based on data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and state government labor departments. The cumulative state total excludes Puerto Rico and the states that did not provide attorney employment information for It is the difference between lawyers on the rolls and the number of employed lawyers as determined by state governments. Alternatively, they could simply indicate the measurement gap between employed lawyers measured by the Current Population Survey and the Employment Projections program, a phenomenon discussed in the Lawyer Overproduction page.
The concentration in the northeast is quite apparent. But before continuing, a quick warning: WARNING : I suspect some people, including university administrators, have used the data on this page to argue that there is an attorney shortage in one state or another. District of Columbia ,, 53, New York 19,,, , Maryland 6,,, 40, Massachusetts 6,,, 42, Connecticut 3,,, 21, Illinois 12,,, 63, New Jersey 8,,, 41, Minnesota 5,,, 25, Puerto Rico 3,,, 14, California 39,,, , Louisiana 4,,, 18, Missouri 6,,, 24, Rhode Island 1,,, 4, Pennsylvania 12,,, 50, Colorado 5,,, 21, Florida 21,,, 78, Vermont ,, 2, Michigan 9,,, 35, Washington 7,,, 26, Ohio 11,,, 37, Texas 28,,, 90, Alaska ,, 2, Georgia 10,,, 32, Delaware ,, 2, Alabama 4,,, 14, Kentucky 4,,, 13, Hawaii 1,,, 4, Montana 1,,, 3, Maine 1,,, 3, Wyoming ,, 1, Oklahoma 3,,, 11, Oregon 4,,, 12, Nebraska 1,,, 5, Virginia 8,,, 24, Kansas 2,,, 8, Tennessee 6,,, 18, West Virginia 1,,, 4, Wisconsin 5,,, 15, Utah 3,,, 8, New Hampshire 1,,, 3, New Mexico 2,,, 5, Nevada 3,,, 7, Indiana 6,,, 15, Iowa 3,,, 7, Arkansas 3,,, 7, Mississippi 2,,, 7, North Carolina 10,,, 24, South Dakota ,, 1, North Dakota ,, 1, Idaho 1,,, 3, Arizona 7,,, 15, South Carolina 5,,, 10, Number of Employed Lawyers Per Capita Next, here are the numbers of employed lawyers per capita by state based on data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and state government labor departments.
District of Columbia , 39, New York 19,, 84, Rhode Island 1,, 4, Delaware , 3, Connecticut 3,, 12, Massachusetts 6,, 22, Vermont , 1, New Jersey 8,, 26, Florida 20,, 60, Illinois 12,, 36, North Dakota , 2, Colorado 5,, 14, Virginia 8,, 21, California 39,, 97, Pennsylvania 12,, 31, Maryland 6,, 14, Montana 1,, 2, Minnesota 5,, 12, Maine 1,, 3, Washington 7,, 15, Oklahoma 3,, 8, Read more.
How many lawyers are in the U. The total number of lawyers in the United States has seen little increase in the last few years; in , there were 1. Lawyers in the U. Unlike many other common law countries, the United States does not differentiate between lawyers who plead in court and those who do not.
For example, in the United Kingdom the former are titled barristers and the latter solicitors. However, in the U.
Oversupply in the U. An overproduction of law graduates is one cause of this oversupply; consequently the number of law graduates shrunk in recent years.
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