cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as below. Source: Probative, Legal profession figures: lawyer and paralegal jobs and pay, and the civil legal-help gap, each re-read at the issuing source, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23851292, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "Legal profession figures: lawyer and paralegal jobs and pay, and the civil legal-help gap, each re-read at the issuing source"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "1.0.0"
date-released: 2026-11-01
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23851292
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/legal-profession-figures/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "7 public figures a law firm uses to size its market: lawyer and paralegal jobs and pay from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and how much of low-income Americans' civil legal need goes without help from the Legal Services Corporation. Each row carries the series code or verbatim sentence from the issuing agency's own source and the date it was read."
keywords:
  - "number of lawyers in the US"
  - "lawyer median pay"
  - "paralegal jobs"
  - "justice gap statistics"
  - "legal market size"