{"id":119986,"date":"2025-05-22T07:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/22\/lawyers-the-ultimate-growth-industry\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:02:36","slug":"lawyers-the-ultimate-growth-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/22\/lawyers-the-ultimate-growth-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers: The Ultimate Growth Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/grow-growth-growing-chart-graph-blackboard-chalkboard-620x430.jpg?resize=620%2C430&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66516\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>According to the ABA, there were 1,322,649 active lawyers in the United States as of January 1, 2024. These lawyers service the roughly 350 million people in the U.S. By contrast, in 1900, there were 76 million American citizens and approximately how many lawyers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: While there are obviously more lawyers as a raw number, there are also more lawyers per capita today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/lawyers-the-ultimate-growth-industry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawyers: The Ultimate Growth Industry<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/grow-growth-growing-chart-graph-blackboard-chalkboard-620x430.jpg?resize=620%2C430&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66516\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>According to the ABA, there were 1,322,649 active lawyers in the United States as of January 1, 2024. These lawyers service the roughly 350 million people in the U.S. By contrast, in 1900, there were 76 million American citizens and approximately how many lawyers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: While there are obviously more lawyers as a raw number, there are also more lawyers per capita today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/lawyers-the-ultimate-growth-industry\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/lawyers-the-ultimate-growth-industry\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the ABA, there were 1,322,649 active lawyers in the United States as of January 1, 2024. These lawyers service the roughly 350 million people in the U.S. By contrast, in 1900, there were 76 million American citizens and approximately how many lawyers? Hint: While there are obviously more lawyers as a raw number, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/grow-growth-growing-chart-graph-blackboard-chalkboard-620x430-hig66X.jpeg?fit=620%2C430&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}