Law Practice
Jun. 29, 2011
Supply Outpaces Demand for Lawyers in California
An economics consulting company quantified the widely held belief that the United States is injecting too many new lawyers into the market, finding California as the state with the second-highest oversupply.
By Sara Randazzo
Daily Journal Staff Writer
An economics consulting company quantified the widely held belief that the United States is injecting too many new lawyers into the market, finding California as the state with the second-highest oversupply.
In 2009, California had a surplus of 2,951 new lawyers, according to data crunched by Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. The statistic represents the number of people who passed the bar that year - 6,258 - compared to e...
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