Attorney Demographics

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Information current as of Sep 16 2019 11:00PM

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Attorney Status

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Attorney Status Population Average Age % of Attorneys
Active 190,436 49 70.16 %
Inactive 63,238 63 23.30 %
Judge 2,284 61 0.84 %
Not Eligible To Practice Law in California 15,489 63 5.71 %
Total 271,447  


By age

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7000 Age: 22 - Population: 2 Age: 23 - Population: 3 Age: 24 - Population: 14 Age: 25 - Population: 88 Age: 26 - Population: 645 Age: 27 - Population: 1,417 Age: 28 - Population: 2,177 Age: 29 - Population: 2,865 Age: 30 - Population: 3,498 Age: 31 - Population: 4,252 Age: 32 - Population: 4,767 Age: 33 - Population: 5,134 Age: 34 - Population: 5,631 Age: 35 - Population: 5,929 Age: 36 - Population: 5,875 Age: 37 - Population: 6,155 Age: 38 - Population: 6,282 Age: 39 - Population: 6,278 Age: 40 - Population: 6,037 Age: 41 - Population: 5,809 Age: 42 - Population: 5,635 Age: 43 - Population: 5,362 Age: 44 - Population: 5,124 Age: 45 - Population: 5,329 Age: 46 - Population: 5,046 Age: 47 - Population: 5,496 Age: 48 - Population: 5,872 Age: 49 - Population: 6,065 Age: 50 - Population: 5,877 Age: 51 - Population: 5,530 Age: 52 - Population: 5,432 Age: 53 - Population: 5,332 Age: 54 - Population: 5,212 Age: 55 - Population: 5,425 Age: 56 - Population: 5,507 Age: 57 - Population: 5,257 Age: 58 - Population: 5,233 Age: 59 - Population: 5,286 Age: 60 - Population: 5,234 Age: 61 - Population: 4,995 Age: 62 - Population: 5,066 Age: 63 - Population: 5,125 Age: 64 - Population: 5,106 Age: 65 - Population: 5,368 Age: 66 - Population: 5,276 Age: 67 - Population: 5,339 Age: 68 - Population: 5,254 Age: 69 - Population: 4,834 Age: 70 - Population: 4,850 Age: 71 - Population: 4,770 Age: 72 - Population: 4,932 Age: 73 - Population: 4,406 Age: 74 - Population: 3,537 Age: 75 - Population: 3,158 Age: 76 - Population: 3,112 Age: 77 - Population: 2,798 Age: 78 - Population: 2,215 Age: 79 - Population: 1,798 Age: 80 - Population: 1,643 Age: 81 - Population: 1,450 Age: 82 - Population: 1,271 Age: 83 - Population: 1,093 Age: 84 - Population: 985 Age: 85 - Population: 923 Age: 86 - Population: 781 Age: 87 - Population: 789 Age: 88 - Population: 712 Age: 89 - Population: 647 Age: 90 - Population: 517 Age: 91 - Population: 459 Age: 92 - Population: 429 Age: 93 - Population: 317 Age: 94 - Population: 279 Age: 95 - Population: 234 Age: 96 - Population: 179 Age: 97 - Population: 180 Age: 98 - Population: 135 Age: 99 - Population: 111 Age: 100 - Population: 77
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  Age (years)


By district/area

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District/Area Population % of Attorneys
California 214,612 79.06 %
District 01 52,735 19.43 %
District 02 75,425 27.79 %
District 03 17,089 6.30 %
District 04 49,111 18.09 %
District 05 5,462 2.01 %
District 06 14,790 5.45 %
Outside California (Within U.S.) 52,829 19.46 %
Outside U.S. 4,006 1.48 %
Total 271,447  


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 17,978 6.62 %
2 Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA 15,983 5.89 %
3 UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA 13,854 5.10 %
4 UC Berkeley SOL; Berkeley CA 12,498 4.60 %
5 Southwestern Univ SOL; Los Angeles CA 11,817 4.35 %
6 McGeorge SOL Univ of the Pacific; CA 10,988 4.05 %
7 Univ of San Diego SOL; San Diego CA 10,942 4.03 %
8 Santa Clara Univ SOL; Santa Clara CA 10,049 3.70 %
9 USC Law School; Los Angeles CA 8,984 3.31 %
10 U of San Francisco SOL; San Francisco CA 7,900 2.91 %
11 California Western SOL; San Diego CA 6,954 2.56 %
12 UC Davis SOL King Hall; Davis CA 6,751 2.49 %
13 Pepperdine Univ SOL; Malibu CA 6,674 2.46 %
14 Golden Gate Univ SOL; San Francisco CA 6,280 2.31 %
15 Stanford Univ Law School; Stanford CA 6,068 2.24 %
16 Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA 6,032 2.22 %
17 Whittier Coll SOL; CA 4,587 1.69 %
18 Western State Univ; CA 4,282 1.58 %
19 Georgetown Univ Law Ctr; Washington DC 3,839 1.41 %
20 Western State Univ COL; Fullerton CA 3,621 1.33 %
21 Thomas Jefferson SOL; San Diego CA 3,351 1.23 %
22 Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI 3,094 1.14 %
23 New York Univ SOL; New York NY 2,726 1.00 %
24 Columbia Univ SOL; New York NY 2,715 1.00 %
25 George Washington Univ LS; Washington DC 2,248 0.83 %


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 23,224 8.56 %
2 Univ of California Berkeley; Berkeley CA 20,231 7.45 %
3 Univ of Southern Calif; Los Angeles CA 8,418 3.10 %
4 Univ of California Santa Barbara; CA 8,328 3.07 %
5 Stanford Univ; Stanford CA 7,118 2.62 %
6 Univ of California Davis; Davis CA 6,771 2.49 %
7 Univ of California San Diego; La Jolla CA 6,591 2.43 %
8 Univ of California Irvine; Irvine CA 5,772 2.13 %
9 California St Univ Northridge; CA 3,920 1.44 %
10 San Diego State Univ; San Diego CA 3,885 1.43 %
11 Foreign School; 3,143 1.16 %
12 California St Univ Long Beach; CA 2,970 1.09 %
13 Univ of California Santa Cruz; CA 2,925 1.08 %
14 Harvard Univ; Cambridge MA 2,708 1.00 %
15 Yale Univ; New Haven CT 2,656 0.98 %
16 Brigham Young Univ; Provo UT 2,595 0.96 %
17 Santa Clara Univ; Santa Clara CA 2,531 0.93 %
18 California St Univ Fullerton; CA 2,483 0.91 %
19 Univ of California Riverside; CA 2,458 0.91 %
20 San Francisco State Unv; San Francisco CA 2,340 0.86 %
21 California St Univ Sacramento; CA 2,256 0.83 %
22 Loyola Marymount Univ; Los Angeles CA 2,154 0.79 %
23 Cornell Univ; Ithaca NY 2,132 0.79 %
24 San Jose State Univ; San Jose CA 2,017 0.74 %
25 Univ of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia PA 1,965 0.72 %


Years admitted to the State Bar

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8000 Tenure: 1 years - Population: 5,025 Tenure: 2 years - Population: 5,813 Tenure: 3 years - Population: 5,497 Tenure: 4 years - Population: 6,153 Tenure: 5 years - Population: 6,763 Tenure: 6 years - Population: 6,898 Tenure: 7 years - Population: 6,806 Tenure: 8 years - Population: 6,580 Tenure: 9 years - Population: 6,419 Tenure: 10 years - Population: 6,599 Tenure: 11 years - Population: 7,066 Tenure: 12 years - Population: 6,664 Tenure: 13 years - Population: 6,636 Tenure: 14 years - Population: 5,923 Tenure: 15 years - Population: 5,453 Tenure: 16 years - Population: 5,587 Tenure: 17 years - Population: 5,471 Tenure: 18 years - Population: 6,113 Tenure: 19 years - Population: 6,062 Tenure: 20 years - Population: 5,606 Tenure: 21 years - Population: 5,894 Tenure: 22 years - Population: 6,357 Tenure: 23 years - Population: 5,658 Tenure: 24 years - Population: 5,540 Tenure: 25 years - Population: 5,642 Tenure: 26 years - Population: 5,746 Tenure: 27 years - Population: 5,667 Tenure: 28 years - Population: 5,199 Tenure: 29 years - Population: 5,601 Tenure: 30 years - Population: 5,872 Tenure: 31 years - Population: 5,546 Tenure: 32 years - Population: 5,307 Tenure: 33 years - Population: 4,318 Tenure: 34 years - Population: 4,557 Tenure: 35 years - Population: 4,017 Tenure: 36 years - Population: 4,478 Tenure: 37 years - Population: 4,466 Tenure: 38 years - Population: 4,622 Tenure: 39 years - Population: 4,504 Tenure: 40 years - Population: 5,229 Tenure: 41 years - Population: 4,729 Tenure: 42 years - Population: 4,514 Tenure: 43 years - Population: 4,248 Tenure: 44 years - Population: 3,652 Tenure: 45 years - Population: 3,565 Tenure: 46 years - Population: 2,770 Tenure: 47 years - Population: 3,612 Tenure: 48 years - Population: 1,844 Tenure: 49 years - Population: 1,856 Tenure: 50 years - Population: 1,540 Tenure: 51 years - Population: 830 Tenure: 52 years - Population: 1,134 Tenure: 53 years - Population: 1,311 Tenure: 54 years - Population: 877 Tenure: 55 years - Population: 732 Tenure: 56 years - Population: 674 Tenure: 57 years - Population: 561 Tenure: 58 years - Population: 547 Tenure: 59 years - Population: 438 Tenure: 60 years - Population: 388 Tenure: 61 years - Population: 186 Tenure: 62 years - Population: 269 Tenure: 63 years - Population: 244 Tenure: 64 years - Population: 310 Tenure: 65 years - Population: 218 Tenure: 66 years - Population: 234 Tenure: 67 years - Population: 197 Tenure: 68 years - Population: 149 Tenure: 69 years - Population: 98 Tenure: 70 years - Population: 96 Tenure: 71 years - Population: 33 Tenure: 72 years - Population: 34 Tenure: 73 years - Population: 25 Tenure: 74 years - Population: 9 Tenure: 75 years - Population: 8 Tenure: 76 years - Population: 3 Tenure: 77 years - Population: 6 Tenure: 78 years - Population: 8 Tenure: 79 years - Population: 8 Tenure: 80 years - Population: 2
0 20 40 60 80
  Years Admitted to the State Bar


By admission year

Year Number Admitted Average Age
1855 1  0 
1856    
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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 

* The State Bar of California was founded in 1927 by the legislature.