Demographics of California attorneys

Graduate School Law School
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<p>The California State Bar has some interesting info on its web site on who has been admitted to the bar in that state:</p>

<p><a href="http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/demographics.aspx%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/demographics.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>A couple of stats that jump out: people who went to either UCLA or Berkeley as undergrads account for more than 16% of all the people who have been admitted to the California Bar. Only four out-of-state schools appear on the list of top-25 undergraduate schools among California lawyers: Harvard (14), Yale (15), Brigham Young (21), and Cornell (25).</p>

<p>Nearly a third of the people admitted to the California Bar graduated from one of these six law schools: Hastings (7.28%), Loyola (5.93%), UCLA (5.28%) Boalt (4.97%), Southwestern (4.59%), or McGeorge (4.34%).</p>

<p>Five out-of-state law schools appear on the top-25 list of law schools attended: Harvard, Georgetown, Michigan, Columbia, and NYU.</p>

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<p>wow thanks greybeard, this is very insightful/interesting</p>

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<p>go McGeorge!!!</p>

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<p>i probably sound naive saying this, but i dont really hear a lot about hastings. where is hastings located (i know it is in california) and does it have a reputation that competes with ucla, ucb law schools?</p>

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<p>You could ... look it up.</p>

<p>You don't hear a lot about hastings because it isn't a nationally prestigious school, but you should be able to pull big bucks if you graduate within the top 10% of the class.</p>

<p>Its located in San Francisco.</p>

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<p>Interesting. Didn't know McGeorge was so represented, although it's probably somewhat more noticeable in Central and Northern California.</p>