Increase in Older Lawyers in Ill. Reflects Baby Boomer Bulge

The percentage of Illinois lawyers over the age of 50 is swelling.

Thirty-nine percent of lawyers in the state last year were between the ages of 50 and 74, up from 22 percent 15 years ago, the Springfield State Journal-Register reports. And the percentage of lawyers in the older age bracket is expected to increase, according to James Grogan, chief counsel and deputy administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.

“It’s the baby boomers who are coming into that age range,” Grogan told the newspaper. “Law schools really started putting people in the profession in the early 1980s.”