> I have been asked to find out two pieces of statistical information on
> black lawyers in the US; the percentage and the approximate number
> of them. Could anyone suggest a possible avenue for my search?
I would turn for help to that great, great [fn1] Oryx Press publication,
Legal Information: How to Find It, How to Use It (1999). The following two
paragraphs are on page 110:
Although The Lawyer Statistical Report compares male and female lawyer
populations, it does not consider race or ethnicity in its tables. Summary
information on these aspects of the legal profession is available from the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Table 11 in each year's January issue of
Employment and Earnings includes the number of lawyers in the country, as
well as a combined total of lawyers and judges, and indicates the female,
black and Hispanic percentages of this total. This information is reprinted
in the federal government's annual Statistical Abstract volume.
From time to time legal newspapers and state bar journals feature
surveys on minority representation in the legal profession. Most of these
cover specific states or metropolitan areas. The National Law Journal has
on occasion surveyed minority employment practices on a nationwide basis,
most recently in Ann Davis, "Big Jump in Minority Associates, But . . .,"
National Law Journal, Apr. 29, 1996, at A1.
Kent Olson
UVA Law Library
kolson@virginia.edu
[fn1] Cf. Joseph Tura, in To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, dir., 1942)
("Isn't he that great, great Polish actor?").
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