The Greying of the California Bar

Graduate School Law School
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<p>According to the most recent California State Bar Survey of attorneys practicing in that state, 35% of California attorneys are at least 55 years old; up from 14% in 1991. In '91, 44% of California attorneys were less than 40 years old; today, that figure has declined to 25%.</p>

<p>More than a third of today’s California attorneys will have celebrated their 65th birthdays (or will have been laid to rest) ten years from now.</p>

<p>It sounds like we can expect a few job openings in the coming decade.</p>

<p><a href=“http://calbar.ca.gov/calbar/pdfs/reports/2006_State-Bar-Survey.pdf[/url]”>http://calbar.ca.gov/calbar/pdfs/reports/2006_State-Bar-Survey.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Later rather than sooner in my case, so long as I need to pay college tuition.</p>

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<p>Ditto for me, Dadofsam, though I still have a bracket or two to go in the survey.</p>