Michael Bower, the Statewide Bar Counsel, has many duties. One of them is keeping charge of attorney registrations. He recently told me that in 2014, 507 new lawyers were admitted to the Connecticut rolls by exam and 81 by motion. He noted that this is roughly a 40 percent drop from the heyday of the mid 2000s, just before the implosion of the financial markets and the contraction of the profession.
Mike also shared some numbers with me and the audience at the recent professionalism symposium that show that the 20- to 30-year-old cohort of bar members, even when adjusted for the fact that most of this group don’t enter the market until they are well into their 20s, is less than half as large as the next oldest group and significantly below the highest groups, the 40- to 50-year-old and 50- to 60-year-old members.
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