And here is proof that yes there are too many lawyers
Law students, lawyers and most everyone else have been saying for years that there are simply too many lawyers in this state. Well, someone has gone and proved them right.
According to data published by Economic Modeling Specialist Inc., the land of 10,000 Lakes is the 13th worst culprit for producing more lawyers every year than there are jobs available. The company looked at the number of people who passed the bar in each state and then compared that number to the estimated number of job openings based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Minnesota had an estimated 378 job openings in 2009 and 888 students who passed the bar exam. That equates to a shortage of legal jobs (or, to put it another way, a surplus of legal job seekers) of 510.
The methodology in this study is comically simple and makes me wonder why someone hasn’t done it before (perhaps they have, and I missed it. This is highly likely.) Every state but two and the District of Columbia are producing more lawyers than they need. And here is the line that should make any 1L shiver: Across the U.S. there were twice as many people who passed the bar in 2009 as there were job openings. With baby boomers working later into their 60s and government and nonprofit legal jobs also drying up among budget constraints, that reality isn’t expected to change for some time.
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