Attorney Demographics

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Information current as of Mar 27 2020 11:00PM

Attorney Status

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Attorney Status Population Average Age % of Attorneys
Active 189,963 50 69.17 %
Inactive 66,798 64 24.32 %
Judge 2,277 62 0.83 %
Not Eligible To Practice Law in California 15,586 64 5.68 %
Total 274,624  


By age

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7000 Age: 22 - Population: 2 Age: 23 - Population: 4 Age: 24 - Population: 12 Age: 25 - Population: 76 Age: 26 - Population: 515 Age: 27 - Population: 1,206 Age: 28 - Population: 1,926 Age: 29 - Population: 2,572 Age: 30 - Population: 3,187 Age: 31 - Population: 3,741 Age: 32 - Population: 4,462 Age: 33 - Population: 4,920 Age: 34 - Population: 5,260 Age: 35 - Population: 5,737 Age: 36 - Population: 5,998 Age: 37 - Population: 5,939 Age: 38 - Population: 6,205 Age: 39 - Population: 6,324 Age: 40 - Population: 6,309 Age: 41 - Population: 6,075 Age: 42 - Population: 5,828 Age: 43 - Population: 5,660 Age: 44 - Population: 5,383 Age: 45 - Population: 5,140 Age: 46 - Population: 5,338 Age: 47 - Population: 5,051 Age: 48 - Population: 5,499 Age: 49 - Population: 5,883 Age: 50 - Population: 6,068 Age: 51 - Population: 5,881 Age: 52 - Population: 5,531 Age: 53 - Population: 5,433 Age: 54 - Population: 5,338 Age: 55 - Population: 5,205 Age: 56 - Population: 5,422 Age: 57 - Population: 5,503 Age: 58 - Population: 5,248 Age: 59 - Population: 5,229 Age: 60 - Population: 5,288 Age: 61 - Population: 5,226 Age: 62 - Population: 4,985 Age: 63 - Population: 5,054 Age: 64 - Population: 5,118 Age: 65 - Population: 5,095 Age: 66 - Population: 5,353 Age: 67 - Population: 5,259 Age: 68 - Population: 5,323 Age: 69 - Population: 5,237 Age: 70 - Population: 4,825 Age: 71 - Population: 4,838 Age: 72 - Population: 4,760 Age: 73 - Population: 4,917 Age: 74 - Population: 4,393 Age: 75 - Population: 3,524 Age: 76 - Population: 3,150 Age: 77 - Population: 3,099 Age: 78 - Population: 2,787 Age: 79 - Population: 2,207 Age: 80 - Population: 1,786 Age: 81 - Population: 1,634 Age: 82 - Population: 1,444 Age: 83 - Population: 1,263 Age: 84 - Population: 1,082 Age: 85 - Population: 979 Age: 86 - Population: 919 Age: 87 - Population: 773 Age: 88 - Population: 784 Age: 89 - Population: 701 Age: 90 - Population: 642 Age: 91 - Population: 509 Age: 92 - Population: 454 Age: 93 - Population: 421 Age: 94 - Population: 316 Age: 95 - Population: 279 Age: 96 - Population: 234 Age: 97 - Population: 175 Age: 98 - Population: 177 Age: 99 - Population: 135 Age: 100 - Population: 110
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By district/area

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District/Area Population % of Attorneys
California 216,723 78.92 %
District 01 53,120 19.34 %
District 02 76,242 27.76 %
District 03 17,261 6.29 %
District 04 49,662 18.08 %
District 05 5,496 2.00 %
District 06 14,942 5.44 %
Outside California (Within U.S.) 53,820 19.60 %
Outside U.S. 4,081 1.49 %
Total 274,624  


By law school

The 25 law schools with the largest number of graduates admitted to the State Bar.

Rank School Population % of Attorneys
1 UC Hastings COL; San Francisco CA 18,157 6.61 %
2 Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA 16,203 5.90 %
3 UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA 14,068 5.12 %
4 UC Berkeley SOL; Berkeley CA 12,699 4.62 %
5 Southwestern Univ SOL; Los Angeles CA 11,925 4.34 %
6 McGeorge SOL Univ of the Pacific; CA 11,069 4.03 %
7 Univ of San Diego SOL; San Diego CA 11,056 4.03 %
8 Santa Clara Univ SOL; Santa Clara CA 10,178 3.71 %
9 USC Law School; Los Angeles CA 9,139 3.33 %
10 U of San Francisco SOL; San Francisco CA 7,940 2.89 %
11 California Western SOL; San Diego CA 7,036 2.56 %
12 UC Davis SOL King Hall; Davis CA 6,858 2.50 %
13 Pepperdine Univ SOL; Malibu CA 6,795 2.47 %
14 Golden Gate Univ SOL; San Francisco CA 6,303 2.30 %
15 Stanford Univ Law School; Stanford CA 6,128 2.23 %
16 Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA 6,107 2.22 %
17 Whittier Coll SOL; CA 4,600 1.68 %
18 Western State Univ; CA 4,261 1.55 %
19 Georgetown Univ Law Ctr; Washington DC 3,884 1.41 %
20 Western State Univ COL; Fullerton CA 3,641 1.33 %
21 Thomas Jefferson SOL; San Diego CA 3,375 1.23 %
22 Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI 3,136 1.14 %
23 New York Univ SOL; New York NY 2,770 1.01 %
24 Columbia Univ SOL; New York NY 2,763 1.01 %
25 Chapman Univ SOL; Orange CA 2,308 0.84 %


By undergraduate school

The 25 undergraduate schools with the largest number of graduates admitted to the State Bar.

Rank School Population % of Attorneys
1 Univ of California at Los Angeles; CA 23,471 8.55 %
2 Univ of California Berkeley; Berkeley CA 20,401 7.43 %
3 Univ of Southern Calif; Los Angeles CA 8,558 3.12 %
4 Univ of California Santa Barbara; CA 8,439 3.07 %
5 Stanford Univ; Stanford CA 7,127 2.60 %
6 Univ of California Davis; Davis CA 6,847 2.49 %
7 Univ of California San Diego; La Jolla CA 6,691 2.44 %
8 Univ of California Irvine; Irvine CA 5,870 2.14 %
9 California St Univ Northridge; CA 3,971 1.45 %
10 San Diego State Univ; San Diego CA 3,916 1.43 %
11 Foreign School; 3,322 1.21 %
12 California St Univ Long Beach; CA 2,998 1.09 %
13 Univ of California Santa Cruz; CA 2,976 1.08 %
14 Harvard Univ; Cambridge MA 2,721 0.99 %
15 Yale Univ; New Haven CT 2,676 0.97 %
16 Brigham Young Univ; Provo UT 2,621 0.95 %
17 Santa Clara Univ; Santa Clara CA 2,562 0.93 %
18 California St Univ Fullerton; CA 2,519 0.92 %
19 Univ of California Riverside; CA 2,513 0.92 %
20 San Francisco State Unv; San Francisco CA 2,364 0.86 %
21 California St Univ Sacramento; CA 2,291 0.83 %
22 Loyola Marymount Univ; Los Angeles CA 2,186 0.80 %
23 Cornell Univ; Ithaca NY 2,150 0.78 %
24 San Jose State Univ; San Jose CA 2,027 0.74 %
25 Univ of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia PA 1,985 0.72 %


Years admitted to the State Bar

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8000 Tenure: 1 years - Population: 5,145 Tenure: 2 years - Population: 5,024 Tenure: 3 years - Population: 5,812 Tenure: 4 years - Population: 5,495 Tenure: 5 years - Population: 6,149 Tenure: 6 years - Population: 6,763 Tenure: 7 years - Population: 6,892 Tenure: 8 years - Population: 6,802 Tenure: 9 years - Population: 6,573 Tenure: 10 years - Population: 6,417 Tenure: 11 years - Population: 6,595 Tenure: 12 years - Population: 7,060 Tenure: 13 years - Population: 6,660 Tenure: 14 years - Population: 6,629 Tenure: 15 years - Population: 5,918 Tenure: 16 years - Population: 5,451 Tenure: 17 years - Population: 5,576 Tenure: 18 years - Population: 5,467 Tenure: 19 years - Population: 6,111 Tenure: 20 years - Population: 6,055 Tenure: 21 years - Population: 5,600 Tenure: 22 years - Population: 5,889 Tenure: 23 years - Population: 6,350 Tenure: 24 years - Population: 5,649 Tenure: 25 years - Population: 5,529 Tenure: 26 years - Population: 5,637 Tenure: 27 years - Population: 5,742 Tenure: 28 years - Population: 5,652 Tenure: 29 years - Population: 5,191 Tenure: 30 years - Population: 5,587 Tenure: 31 years - Population: 5,857 Tenure: 32 years - Population: 5,533 Tenure: 33 years - Population: 5,295 Tenure: 34 years - Population: 4,312 Tenure: 35 years - Population: 4,551 Tenure: 36 years - Population: 4,009 Tenure: 37 years - Population: 4,470 Tenure: 38 years - Population: 4,457 Tenure: 39 years - Population: 4,614 Tenure: 40 years - Population: 4,492 Tenure: 41 years - Population: 5,214 Tenure: 42 years - Population: 4,718 Tenure: 43 years - Population: 4,494 Tenure: 44 years - Population: 4,237 Tenure: 45 years - Population: 3,634 Tenure: 46 years - Population: 3,558 Tenure: 47 years - Population: 2,762 Tenure: 48 years - Population: 3,596 Tenure: 49 years - Population: 1,834 Tenure: 50 years - Population: 1,847 Tenure: 51 years - Population: 1,532 Tenure: 52 years - Population: 823 Tenure: 53 years - Population: 1,127 Tenure: 54 years - Population: 1,296 Tenure: 55 years - Population: 871 Tenure: 56 years - Population: 727 Tenure: 57 years - Population: 670 Tenure: 58 years - Population: 558 Tenure: 59 years - Population: 542 Tenure: 60 years - Population: 434 Tenure: 61 years - Population: 386 Tenure: 62 years - Population: 183 Tenure: 63 years - Population: 266 Tenure: 64 years - Population: 241 Tenure: 65 years - Population: 308 Tenure: 66 years - Population: 215 Tenure: 67 years - Population: 232 Tenure: 68 years - Population: 195 Tenure: 69 years - Population: 146 Tenure: 70 years - Population: 95 Tenure: 71 years - Population: 96 Tenure: 72 years - Population: 33 Tenure: 73 years - Population: 33 Tenure: 74 years - Population: 24 Tenure: 75 years - Population: 9 Tenure: 76 years - Population: 8 Tenure: 77 years - Population: 3 Tenure: 78 years - Population: 6 Tenure: 79 years - Population: 8 Tenure: 80 years - Population: 8
0 20 40 60 80
  Years Admitted to the State Bar


By admission year

Year Number Admitted Average Age
1855 1  0 
1856    
1857    
1858    
1859    
1860    
1861    
1862    
1863    
1864    
1865    
1866 1  22 
1867    
1868    
1869    
1870 3  26 
1871    
1872 1  27 
1873 4  20 
1874 2  25 
1875 7  26 
1876 9  25 
1877 7  25 
1878 4  25 
1879 26  25 
1880 12  25 
1881 17  24 
1882 25  25 
1883 24  24 
1884 19  25 
1885 36  26 
1886 32  25 
1887 46  25 
1888 39  26 
1889 47  27 
1890 62  25 
1891 64  25 
1892 73  27 
1893 77  26 
1894 100  26 
1895 129  27 
1896 126  26 
1897 156  27 
1898 136  27 
1899 116  26 
1900 127  25 
1901 134  25 
1902 140  28 
1903 137  29 
1904 144  28 
1905 140  30 
1906 157  29 
1907 195  28 
1908 224  30 
1909 286  29 
1910 240  31 
1911 380  29 
1912 383  30 
1913 438  30 
1914 425  30 
1915 483  30 
1916 338  30 
1917 383  29 
1918 253  32 
1919 265  33 
1920 291  32 
1921 364  33 
1922 446  32 
1923 601  33 
1924 506  32 
1925 436  32 
1926 590  32 
1927* 791  32 
1928 605  31 
1929 579  31 
1930 656  30 
1931 699  31 
1932 553  28 
1933 518  28 
1934 426  28 
1935 442  28 
1936 516  28 
1937 418  28 
1938 493  28 
1939 317  29 
1940 390  28 
1941 392  28 
1942 257  29 
1943 182  32 
1944 265  34 
1945 231  33 
1946 482  32 
1947 564  32 
1948 415  32 
1949 947  30 
1950 725  30 
1951 846  30 
1952 921  29 
1953 1,023  30 
1954 886  31 
1955 1,088  30 
1956 790  30 
1957 820  30 
1958 543  31 
1959 934  30 
1960 1,024  30 
1961 1,259  31 
1962 1,213  31 
1963 1,261  31 
1964 1,284  30 
1965 1,552  30 
1966 2,158  29 
1967 1,736  29 
1968 1,244  30 
1969 2,266  30 
1970 2,612  30 
1971 2,603  30 
1972 5,024  30 
1973 3,687  29 
1974 4,713  30 
1975 4,693  29 
1976 5,365  29 
1977 5,634  29 
1978 5,871  30 
1979 6,425  30 
1980 5,457  30 
1981 5,458  30 
1982 5,227  30 
1983 5,146  30 
1984 4,581  30 
1985 5,102  30 
1986 4,806  30 
1987 5,875  30 
1988 6,172  31 
1989 6,463  31 
1990 6,143  31 
1991 5,623  31 
1992 6,094  31 
1993 6,142  31 
1994 5,998  31 
1995 5,815  31 
1996 5,924  30 
1997 6,657  31 
1998 6,115  31 
1999 5,785  31 
2000 6,221  31 
2001 6,269  31 
2002 5,615  31 
2003 5,725  30 
2004 5,555  30 
2005 6,008  30 
2006 6,729  30 
2007 6,749  30 
2008 7,132  30 
2009 6,641  30 
2010 6,473  30 
2011 6,624  30 
2012 6,835  29 
2013 6,921  30 
2014 6,779  30 
2015 6,162  30 
2016 5,505  30 
2017 5,813  30 
2018 5,027  30 
2019 5,145  30 
* The State Bar of California was founded in 1927 by the legislature.


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