Lawyers everywhere .... almost

Catherine Rampell over at Economix (see here) has a piece today about the surplus of lawyers in the U.S.  She references a model developed by EMSI (see here) that provides a state by state estimate of the lawyer surplus or shortage.  EMSI also estimates the median hourly wage for lawyers by state.  According to the model by EMSI, only Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Washington D.C. have lawyer shortages.  All other states have a lawyer surplus.  New York is estimated to have a surplus of 7,687 (the largest surplus).  Mississippi is estimated to have a surplus of 95 lawyers.  Below is a graph from EMSI showing the states with the largest estimated lawyer surpluses (click on graph to enlarge).