Attorney Demographics

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Information current as of Sep 21 2023 11:00PM

2022 Report Card on the Diversity of California's Legal Profession

Attorney Status

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Attorney Status Population Average Age % of Attorneys
Active 195,288 50 67.59%
Inactive 72,837 66 25.21%
Judge 2,250 61 0.78%
Not eligible to practice law in CA 18,549 66 6.42%
Total 288,924  


By age

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7000 Age: 22 - Population: 1 Age: 23 - Population: 1 Age: 24 - Population: 13 Age: 25 - Population: 118 Age: 26 - Population: 652 Age: 27 - Population: 1,383 Age: 28 - Population: 2,108 Age: 29 - Population: 2,673 Age: 30 - Population: 3,129 Age: 31 - Population: 3,562 Age: 32 - Population: 4,020 Age: 33 - Population: 4,432 Age: 34 - Population: 4,783 Age: 35 - Population: 5,373 Age: 36 - Population: 5,640 Age: 37 - Population: 5,834 Age: 38 - Population: 6,207 Age: 39 - Population: 6,474 Age: 40 - Population: 6,347 Age: 41 - Population: 6,524 Age: 42 - Population: 6,589 Age: 43 - Population: 6,517 Age: 44 - Population: 6,238 Age: 45 - Population: 5,970 Age: 46 - Population: 5,777 Age: 47 - Population: 5,494 Age: 48 - Population: 5,255 Age: 49 - Population: 5,430 Age: 50 - Population: 5,124 Age: 51 - Population: 5,542 Age: 52 - Population: 5,921 Age: 53 - Population: 6,097 Age: 54 - Population: 5,895 Age: 55 - Population: 5,507 Age: 56 - Population: 5,445 Age: 57 - Population: 5,331 Age: 58 - Population: 5,172 Age: 59 - Population: 5,361 Age: 60 - Population: 5,454 Age: 61 - Population: 5,164 Age: 62 - Population: 5,121 Age: 63 - Population: 5,157 Age: 64 - Population: 5,078 Age: 65 - Population: 4,836 Age: 66 - Population: 4,888 Age: 67 - Population: 4,920 Age: 68 - Population: 4,860 Age: 69 - Population: 5,117 Age: 70 - Population: 5,039 Age: 71 - Population: 5,120 Age: 72 - Population: 5,105 Age: 73 - Population: 4,697 Age: 74 - Population: 4,728 Age: 75 - Population: 4,641 Age: 76 - Population: 4,810 Age: 77 - Population: 4,292 Age: 78 - Population: 3,422 Age: 79 - Population: 3,055 Age: 80 - Population: 2,988 Age: 81 - Population: 2,701 Age: 82 - Population: 2,126 Age: 83 - Population: 1,703 Age: 84 - Population: 1,540 Age: 85 - Population: 1,386 Age: 86 - Population: 1,202 Age: 87 - Population: 1,015 Age: 88 - Population: 926 Age: 89 - Population: 866 Age: 90 - Population: 725 Age: 91 - Population: 743 Age: 92 - Population: 658 Age: 93 - Population: 599 Age: 94 - Population: 475 Age: 95 - Population: 424 Age: 96 - Population: 399 Age: 97 - Population: 294 Age: 98 - Population: 249 Age: 99 - Population: 200 Age: 100 - Population: 159
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  Age (years)


By district/area

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District/Area Population % of Attorneys
California 224,671 77.76%
District 01 54,412 18.83%
District 02 79,302 27.45%
District 03 18,191 6.30%
District 04 52,099 18.03%
District 05 5,534 1.92%
District 06 15,133 5.24%
Outside California (Within U.S.) 59,439 20.57%
Outside U.S. 4,813 1.67%
Total 288,924  


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 College of the Law, San Francisco; San Francisco CA 18,513 6.41%
2 Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA 16,789 5.81%
3 UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA 14,669 5.08%
4 UC Berkeley SOL; Berkeley CA 13,291 4.60%
5 Southwestern Univ SOL; Los Angeles CA 12,321 4.26%
6 Univ of San Diego SOL; San Diego CA 11,446 3.96%
7 McGeorge SOL Univ of the Pacific; CA 11,231 3.89%
8 Santa Clara Univ SOL; Santa Clara CA 10,519 3.64%
9 USC Law School; Los Angeles CA 9,497 3.29%
10 U of San Francisco SOL; San Francisco CA 8,092 2.80%
11 California Western SOL; San Diego CA 7,458 2.58%
12 UC Davis SOL King Hall; Davis CA 7,222 2.50%
13 Pepperdine Univ SOL; Malibu CA 7,023 2.43%
14 Golden Gate Univ SOL; San Francisco CA 6,455 2.23%
15 Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA 6,306 2.18%
16 Stanford Univ Law School; Stanford CA 6,255 2.16%
17 Whittier Coll SOL; CA 4,620 1.60%
18 Western State Univ; CA 4,107 1.42%
19 Georgetown Univ Law Ctr; Washington DC 4,107 1.42%
20 Thomas Jefferson SOL; San Diego CA 3,567 1.23%
21 Western State Univ COL; Fullerton CA 3,564 1.23%
22 No Information Available; 3,397 1.18%
23 Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI 3,266 1.13%
24 Columbia Univ SOL; New York NY 3,000 1.04%
25 New York Univ SOL; New York NY 2,970 1.03%


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 23,046 7.98%
2 Univ of California Berkeley; Berkeley CA 20,051 6.94%
3 Univ of Southern Calif; Los Angeles CA 8,383 2.90%
4 Univ of California Santa Barbara; CA 8,345 2.89%
5 Stanford Univ; Stanford CA 6,927 2.40%
6 Univ of California Davis; Davis CA 6,767 2.34%
7 Univ of California San Diego; La Jolla CA 6,640 2.30%
8 Univ of California Irvine; Irvine CA 5,831 2.02%
9 California St Univ Northridge; CA 3,897 1.35%
10 San Diego State Univ; San Diego CA 3,855 1.33%
11 Foreign School; 3,388 1.17%
12 California St Univ Long Beach; CA 2,951 1.02%
13 Univ of California Santa Cruz; CA 2,941 1.02%
14 Harvard Univ; Cambridge MA 2,685 0.93%
15 Yale Univ; New Haven CT 2,635 0.91%
16 Brigham Young Univ; Provo UT 2,581 0.89%
17 Santa Clara Univ; Santa Clara CA 2,504 0.87%
18 Univ of California Riverside; CA 2,484 0.86%
19 California St Univ Fullerton; CA 2,460 0.85%
20 San Francisco State Unv; San Francisco CA 2,313 0.80%
21 California St Univ Sacramento; CA 2,235 0.77%
22 Loyola Marymount Univ; Los Angeles CA 2,143 0.74%
23 Cornell Univ; Ithaca NY 2,119 0.73%
24 San Jose State Univ; San Jose CA 1,977 0.68%
25 Univ of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia PA 1,966 0.68%


Years admitted to the State Bar

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10000 Tenure: 1 years - Population: 5,945 Tenure: 2 years - Population: 9,992 Tenure: 3 years - Population: 2,661 Tenure: 4 years - Population: 5,140 Tenure: 5 years - Population: 5,012 Tenure: 6 years - Population: 5,801 Tenure: 7 years - Population: 5,477 Tenure: 8 years - Population: 6,130 Tenure: 9 years - Population: 6,731 Tenure: 10 years - Population: 6,868 Tenure: 11 years - Population: 6,771 Tenure: 12 years - Population: 6,543 Tenure: 13 years - Population: 6,388 Tenure: 14 years - Population: 6,557 Tenure: 15 years - Population: 7,016 Tenure: 16 years - Population: 6,615 Tenure: 17 years - Population: 6,588 Tenure: 18 years - Population: 5,871 Tenure: 19 years - Population: 5,412 Tenure: 20 years - Population: 5,521 Tenure: 21 years - Population: 5,412 Tenure: 22 years - Population: 6,041 Tenure: 23 years - Population: 5,968 Tenure: 24 years - Population: 5,528 Tenure: 25 years - Population: 5,796 Tenure: 26 years - Population: 6,270 Tenure: 27 years - Population: 5,570 Tenure: 28 years - Population: 5,429 Tenure: 29 years - Population: 5,539 Tenure: 30 years - Population: 5,656 Tenure: 31 years - Population: 5,511 Tenure: 32 years - Population: 5,054 Tenure: 33 years - Population: 5,444 Tenure: 34 years - Population: 5,709 Tenure: 35 years - Population: 5,385 Tenure: 36 years - Population: 5,146 Tenure: 37 years - Population: 4,170 Tenure: 38 years - Population: 4,387 Tenure: 39 years - Population: 3,858 Tenure: 40 years - Population: 4,312 Tenure: 41 years - Population: 4,302 Tenure: 42 years - Population: 4,416 Tenure: 43 years - Population: 4,329 Tenure: 44 years - Population: 5,058 Tenure: 45 years - Population: 4,562 Tenure: 46 years - Population: 4,336 Tenure: 47 years - Population: 4,101 Tenure: 48 years - Population: 3,523 Tenure: 49 years - Population: 3,454 Tenure: 50 years - Population: 2,658 Tenure: 51 years - Population: 3,474 Tenure: 52 years - Population: 1,750 Tenure: 53 years - Population: 1,764 Tenure: 54 years - Population: 1,460 Tenure: 55 years - Population: 783 Tenure: 56 years - Population: 1,079 Tenure: 57 years - Population: 1,232 Tenure: 58 years - Population: 805 Tenure: 59 years - Population: 682 Tenure: 60 years - Population: 620 Tenure: 61 years - Population: 515 Tenure: 62 years - Population: 495 Tenure: 63 years - Population: 388 Tenure: 64 years - Population: 350 Tenure: 65 years - Population: 163 Tenure: 66 years - Population: 237 Tenure: 67 years - Population: 212 Tenure: 68 years - Population: 258 Tenure: 69 years - Population: 176 Tenure: 70 years - Population: 186 Tenure: 71 years - Population: 142 Tenure: 72 years - Population: 77 Tenure: 73 years - Population: 42 Tenure: 74 years - Population: 32 Tenure: 75 years - Population: 6 Tenure: 76 years - Population: 11 Tenure: 77 years - Population: 5 Tenure: 78 years - Population: 2 Tenure: 79 years - Population: 1 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    
1857    
1858    
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1860    
1861    
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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 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 5,814  30 
2018 5,028  30 
2019 5,146  30 
2020 2,661  33 
2021 10,002  31 
2022 5,944  31 
* The State Bar of California was founded in 1927 by the legislature.


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