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Is the U.S. legal profession undergoing a major structural shift?

In an July article in the ABA Journal entitled “Paradigm Shift,” Rachel Zahorsky and I answer “yes” to this question. After the story went to press, the U.S. Census Bureau released some additional supporting data. If you want the whole storyline boiled down to a picture or two, the charts below, which incoporate the new data, come pretty close.