Perspective
Sep. 19, 2013
The growing importance of specialization
There are a lot of lawyers out there, and not everyone (if anyone) is competent to do everything. But each of us is competent to do something. By Bradley I. Kramer
As of April 2011, there were 1,225,452 licensed attorneys in the U.S. Of that figure, approximately 180,000 are active attorneys in the state of California (excluding judges, inactive members, and those who are not eligible to practice law for one reason or another). That's a whole lot of attorneys.
For a 20-something-year-old kid thinking about going to law school, or for a new attorney starting a practice, those numbers are da...
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