<p>How is the job market for lawyers looking in the next 10-15 years? Is it true that it will be hard to find a job as a lawyer in a couple years?</p>
<p>I had an informational interview with an attorney in 1978 who told me to expect a real crunch in the job market for attorneys in the next 5-10 years due to what he termed the oversupply of attorneys. </p>
<p>Nobody really knows, of course. Any answer you receive to your question may tell you more about who's answering than it will about the state of affairs in the future.</p>
<p>Lawyers are likely to temper any prediction they make with safe-harbor language: The following includes forward-looking statements; unforeseen events may render them moot.</p>
<p>OK, on to my view: the job market will be better for the top 10% of lawyers, will remain about the same for the next 15%, lawyers, and will be worse for everyone else.</p>
<p>Information technologies and state bar rules will continue to erode barriers to law practices with broad geographical scope, and accelerate the "winner take all" aspects of the profession.</p>
<p>You may want to take a look at this (and the rest of the website) for some information. It is from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Statistics: </p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos053.htm#outlook%5B/url%5D">http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos053.htm#outlook</a></p>
<p>Hope this helps :)</p>