Licensee Demographics

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Information current as of Sep 23 2017 11:00PM

Attorney status

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Attorney Status Population Average Age % of Licensees
Active 189,066 49 71.85 %
Inactive 57,458 62 21.83 %
Judge 2,145 61 0.82 %
Not Eligible To Practice Law in CA 14,480 62 5.50 %
Total 263,149  


By age

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7000 Age: 22 - Population: Age: 23 - Population: 3 Age: 24 - Population: 15 Age: 25 - Population: 100 Age: 26 - Population: 746 Age: 27 - Population: 1,616 Age: 28 - Population: 2,444 Age: 29 - Population: 3,448 Age: 30 - Population: 4,116 Age: 31 - Population: 4,622 Age: 32 - Population: 5,178 Age: 33 - Population: 5,516 Age: 34 - Population: 5,554 Age: 35 - Population: 5,917 Age: 36 - Population: 6,081 Age: 37 - Population: 6,096 Age: 38 - Population: 5,921 Age: 39 - Population: 5,715 Age: 40 - Population: 5,533 Age: 41 - Population: 5,285 Age: 42 - Population: 5,068 Age: 43 - Population: 5,270 Age: 44 - Population: 5,007 Age: 45 - Population: 5,460 Age: 46 - Population: 5,841 Age: 47 - Population: 6,038 Age: 48 - Population: 5,875 Age: 49 - Population: 5,517 Age: 50 - Population: 5,430 Age: 51 - Population: 5,324 Age: 52 - Population: 5,216 Age: 53 - Population: 5,440 Age: 54 - Population: 5,521 Age: 55 - Population: 5,282 Age: 56 - Population: 5,262 Age: 57 - Population: 5,316 Age: 58 - Population: 5,273 Age: 59 - Population: 5,062 Age: 60 - Population: 5,125 Age: 61 - Population: 5,182 Age: 62 - Population: 5,168 Age: 63 - Population: 5,456 Age: 64 - Population: 5,383 Age: 65 - Population: 5,450 Age: 66 - Population: 5,379 Age: 67 - Population: 4,933 Age: 68 - Population: 4,949 Age: 69 - Population: 4,855 Age: 70 - Population: 5,007 Age: 71 - Population: 4,467 Age: 72 - Population: 3,581 Age: 73 - Population: 3,204 Age: 74 - Population: 3,157 Age: 75 - Population: 2,861 Age: 76 - Population: 2,254 Age: 77 - Population: 1,838 Age: 78 - Population: 1,675 Age: 79 - Population: 1,480 Age: 80 - Population: 1,300 Age: 81 - Population: 1,121 Age: 82 - Population: 1,020 Age: 83 - Population: 953 Age: 84 - Population: 809 Age: 85 - Population: 810 Age: 86 - Population: 737 Age: 87 - Population: 672 Age: 88 - Population: 536 Age: 89 - Population: 475 Age: 90 - Population: 442 Age: 91 - Population: 333 Age: 92 - Population: 290 Age: 93 - Population: 245 Age: 94 - Population: 185 Age: 95 - Population: 185 Age: 96 - Population: 141 Age: 97 - Population: 112 Age: 98 - Population: 79 Age: 99 - Population: 67 Age: 100 - Population: 40
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By district/area

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District/Area Population % of Licensees
California 209,422 79.58 %
District 01 51,484 19.56 %
District 02 73,260 27.84 %
District 03 16,642 6.32 %
District 04 47,916 18.21 %
District 05 5,365 2.04 %
District 06 14,755 5.61 %
Outside California (Within U.S.) 50,055 19.02 %
Outside U.S. 3,672 1.40 %
Total 263,149  


By law school

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

Rank School Population % of Licensees
1 UC Hastings COL; San Francisco CA 17,654 6.71 %
2 Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA 15,537 5.90 %
3 UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA 13,377 5.08 %
4 UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hall; Berkeley CA 12,088 4.59 %
5 Southwestern Univ SOL; Los Angeles CA 11,464 4.36 %
6 McGeorge SOL Univ of the Pacific; CA 10,891 4.14 %
7 Univ of San Diego SOL; San Diego CA 10,621 4.04 %
8 Santa Clara Univ SOL; Santa Clara CA 9,803 3.73 %
9 USC Law School; Los Angeles CA 8,692 3.30 %
10 U of San Francisco SOL; San Francisco CA 7,768 2.95 %
11 California Western SOL; San Diego CA 6,702 2.55 %
12 UC Davis SOL King Hall; Davis CA 6,501 2.47 %
13 Pepperdine Univ SOL; Malibu CA 6,421 2.44 %
14 Golden Gate Univ SOL; San Francisco CA 6,203 2.36 %
15 Stanford Univ Law School; Stanford CA 5,884 2.24 %
16 Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA 5,828 2.21 %
17 Whittier Coll SOL; CA 4,469 1.70 %
18 Western State Univ; CA 4,375 1.66 %
19 Georgetown Univ Law Ctr; Washington DC 3,671 1.40 %
20 Western State Univ COL; Fullerton CA 3,609 1.37 %
21 Thomas Jefferson SOL; San Diego CA 3,204 1.22 %
22 Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI 2,999 1.14 %
23 New York Univ SOL; New York NY 2,600 0.99 %
24 Columbia Univ SOL; New York NY 2,592 0.98 %
25 George Washington Univ LS; Washington DC 2,145 0.82 %


By undergraduate school

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

Rank School Population % of Licensees
1 Univ of California at Los Angeles; CA 22,648 8.61 %
2 Univ of California Berkeley; Berkeley CA 19,806 7.53 %
3 Univ of Southern Calif; Los Angeles CA 8,154 3.10 %
4 Univ of California Santa Barbara; CA 8,055 3.06 %
5 Stanford Univ; Stanford CA 7,083 2.69 %
6 Univ of California Davis; Davis CA 6,550 2.49 %
7 Univ of California San Diego; La Jolla CA 6,317 2.40 %
8 Univ of California Irvine; Irvine CA 5,471 2.08 %
9 San Diego State Univ; San Diego CA 3,770 1.43 %
10 California St Univ Northridge; CA 3,760 1.43 %
11 California St Univ Long Beach; CA 2,886 1.10 %
12 Univ of California Santa Cruz; CA 2,799 1.06 %
13 Harvard Univ; Cambridge MA 2,641 1.00 %
14 Foreign School; 2,617 0.99 %
15 Yale Univ; New Haven CT 2,608 0.99 %
16 Brigham Young Univ; Provo UT 2,531 0.96 %
17 Santa Clara Univ; Santa Clara CA 2,484 0.94 %
18 California St Univ Fullerton; CA 2,407 0.91 %
19 Univ of California Riverside; CA 2,284 0.87 %
20 San Francisco State Unv; San Francisco CA 2,271 0.86 %
21 California St Univ Sacramento; CA 2,182 0.83 %
22 Cornell Univ; Ithaca NY 2,092 0.79 %
23 Loyola Marymount Univ; Los Angeles CA 2,063 0.78 %
24 San Jose State Univ; San Jose CA 2,007 0.76 %
25 Univ of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia PA 1,915 0.73 %


Years admitted to the State Bar

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8000 Tenure: 1 years - Population: 5,503 Tenure: 2 years - Population: 6,161 Tenure: 3 years - Population: 6,771 Tenure: 4 years - Population: 6,913 Tenure: 5 years - Population: 6,817 Tenure: 6 years - Population: 6,599 Tenure: 7 years - Population: 6,438 Tenure: 8 years - Population: 6,609 Tenure: 9 years - Population: 7,087 Tenure: 10 years - Population: 6,681 Tenure: 11 years - Population: 6,655 Tenure: 12 years - Population: 5,943 Tenure: 13 years - Population: 5,474 Tenure: 14 years - Population: 5,607 Tenure: 15 years - Population: 5,490 Tenure: 16 years - Population: 6,143 Tenure: 17 years - Population: 6,094 Tenure: 18 years - Population: 5,635 Tenure: 19 years - Population: 5,932 Tenure: 20 years - Population: 6,400 Tenure: 21 years - Population: 5,696 Tenure: 22 years - Population: 5,565 Tenure: 23 years - Population: 5,693 Tenure: 24 years - Population: 5,787 Tenure: 25 years - Population: 5,729 Tenure: 26 years - Population: 5,244 Tenure: 27 years - Population: 5,673 Tenure: 28 years - Population: 5,948 Tenure: 29 years - Population: 5,610 Tenure: 30 years - Population: 5,379 Tenure: 31 years - Population: 4,375 Tenure: 32 years - Population: 4,613 Tenure: 33 years - Population: 4,074 Tenure: 34 years - Population: 4,536 Tenure: 35 years - Population: 4,536 Tenure: 36 years - Population: 4,698 Tenure: 37 years - Population: 4,583 Tenure: 38 years - Population: 5,320 Tenure: 39 years - Population: 4,835 Tenure: 40 years - Population: 4,592 Tenure: 41 years - Population: 4,313 Tenure: 42 years - Population: 3,712 Tenure: 43 years - Population: 3,643 Tenure: 44 years - Population: 2,819 Tenure: 45 years - Population: 3,688 Tenure: 46 years - Population: 1,875 Tenure: 47 years - Population: 1,886 Tenure: 48 years - Population: 1,567 Tenure: 49 years - Population: 844 Tenure: 50 years - Population: 1,159 Tenure: 51 years - Population: 1,343 Tenure: 52 years - Population: 910 Tenure: 53 years - Population: 753 Tenure: 54 years - Population: 691 Tenure: 55 years - Population: 587 Tenure: 56 years - Population: 570 Tenure: 57 years - Population: 453 Tenure: 58 years - Population: 405 Tenure: 59 years - Population: 194 Tenure: 60 years - Population: 283 Tenure: 61 years - Population: 251 Tenure: 62 years - Population: 321 Tenure: 63 years - Population: 224 Tenure: 64 years - Population: 240 Tenure: 65 years - Population: 208 Tenure: 66 years - Population: 156 Tenure: 67 years - Population: 107 Tenure: 68 years - Population: 98 Tenure: 69 years - Population: 33 Tenure: 70 years - Population: 35 Tenure: 71 years - Population: 26 Tenure: 72 years - Population: 10 Tenure: 73 years - Population: 8 Tenure: 74 years - Population: 4 Tenure: 75 years - Population: 6 Tenure: 76 years - Population: 8 Tenure: 77 years - Population: 8 Tenure: 78 years - Population: 2 Tenure: 79 years - Population: 4 Tenure: 80 years - Population: 6
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    
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1860    
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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 11  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 46  27 
1890 61  25 
1891 64  25 
1892 72  27 
1893 77  26 
1894 99  26 
1895 129  27 
1896 126  26 
1897 156  27 
1898 135  27 
1899 116  26 
1900 126  25 
1901 134  25 
1902 140  28 
1903 136  29 
1904 144  28 
1905 140  30 
1906 156  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 482  30 
1916 338  30 
1917 382  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* 790  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 726  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 6,462  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 

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