TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 30, 2021

The American Bar Association (ABA) last month released its third annual “Profile of the Legal Profession." Among the topics covered, the profile looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different demographic groups, finding that one-third of older lawyers changed their retirement plans and a higher number of women lawyers and lawyers of color reported stress and work-life balance challenges during the pandemic compared to others. The profile also looks at the number of lawyers and law students in the country, wage trends, the growth in women attorneys, the decrease in male law students, and the slow but steady progress in diversity, Reuters reports. Finally, the survey found a dearth of lawyers in rural areas and ongoing struggles associated with law school debt, according to the ABA Journal.