The Profile of the Legal Profession is a compilation of statistics and trends about lawyers, judges and law students, gathered from the ABA’s National Lawyer Population Survey, the federal government and nonprofit organizations.
What’s New: Lawyer Population Grows
The ABA’s 2025 Profile of the Legal Profession reveals that the number of lawyers in the U.S. has increased significantly for the first time since 2020, rising to 1.37 million in 2025 from 1.35 million the previous year. The growth was fueled by an increase in the number of law graduates and a high employment rate for jobs that require bar admission.
