SNAPSHOT OF OUR APIS MEMBERS IN 2024-2025
Sex
- Male: 212 (48%)
- Female: 231 (52%)
Race/Ethnicity
- White: 34 (8%)
- Black/African American: 4 (<1%)
- Hispanic/Latino: 7 (2%)
- Asian/Pacific Islander: 347 (81%)
- American Indian/Alaska Native: 1 (<1%)
- Two or More Races: 22 (5%)
- Other Race: 11 (3%)
Years Licensed
- 2 or less years: 56 (13%)
- 3 to 6 years: 67 (15%)
- 7 to 10 years: 58 (13%)
- 11 to 15 years: 72 (16%)
- 16 to 20 years: 66 (15%)
- 21 to 25 years: 40 (9%)
- Over 25 years: 86 (19%)
- Median Years Licensed: 13
Age
- 21 to 25 years: 1 (<1%)
- 26 to 30 years: 51 (12%)
- 31 to 35 years: 60 (14%)
- 36 to 40 years: 70 (16%)
- 41 to 45 years: 75 (17%)
- 46 to 50 years: 63 (14%)
- 51 to 55 years: 58 (13%)
- 56 to 60 years: 23 (5%)
- 61 to 65 years: 22 (5%)
- More than 65 years: 16 (4%)
- Median Age: 43
Metro Area (Location)
- Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX: 164 (37%)
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX: 143 (32%)
- Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX: 90 (20%)
- San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX: 10 (2%)
- Amarillo, TX: 1 (<1%)
- Brownsville-Harlingen, TX: 1 (<1%)
- Laredo, TX: 1 (<1%)
- Tyler, TX: 1 (<1%)
- Non-Metro: 2 (<1%)
- Out-of-State: 31 (7%)
- Out-of-Country: 1 (<1%)
Law School Attended
- Baylor: 13 (3%)
- St. Mary’s: 15 (4%)
- SMU Dedman/Southern Methodist: 54 (13%)
- South Texas: 29 (7%)
- Texas Southern: 3 (<1%)
- Texas Tech: 6 (1%)
- Texas A&M/Formerly Texas Wesleyan: 6 (1%)
- University of Houston: 55 (13%)
- University of Texas: 80 (19%)
- UNT Dallas/North Texas School of Law: 1 (<1%)
- Out-of-State/Other Law School: 162 (38%)
Primary Occupation
- Private Practitioners: 203 (62%)
- Government Attorney: 19 (6%)
- Full-Time Judge: 5 (2%)
- Law Faculty: 2 (<1%)
- Corporate/In-House Counsel: 73 (22%)
- Other Law Related: 10 (3%)
- Other Non-Law Related: 9 (3%)
- Public Interest Lawyer: 7 (2%)
- Unemployed-Looking: 1 (<1%)
- Unemployed-Not Looking: 1 (<1%)
Private Practitioners – Firm Size
- Solo Practitioners: 19 (9%)
- 2 to 5 attorneys: 33 (16%)
- 6 to 10 attorneys: 13 (6%)
- 11 to 24 attorneys: 16 (8%)
- 25 to 40 attorneys: 11 (5%)
- 41 to 60 attorneys: 4 (2%)
- More than 60 attorneys: 78 (38%)
- Not Specified: 29 (14%)
Board Certifications
- Board Certified Attorneys: 13 (3%)
- Attorneys Not Board Certified: 432 (97%)
- Attorneys Board Certified in One Area: 13 (3%)
- Attorneys Board Certified in Two Areas: 0
- Attorneys Board Certified in Three or More Areas: 0
Attorneys Board Certified In:
- Commercial Real Estate Law: 1 (<1%)
- Criminal Law: 1 (<1%)
- Family Law: 3 (<1%)
- Health Law: 1 (<1%)
- Immigration & Nationality Law: 2 (<1%)
- Labor & Employment Law: 3 (<1%)
- Personal Injury Trial Law: 1 (<1%)
- Worker’s Compensation Law: 1 (<1%)
Areas of Practice
- Administrative and Public: 22 (5%)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution: 9 (2%)
- Antitrust: 0
- Appellate: Civil: 14 (3%)
- Appellate: Criminal: 2 (<1%)
- Arbitration: 4 (<1%)
- Aviation: 3 (<1%)
- Bankruptcy: 16 (4%)
- Business: 125 (28%)
- Civil Rights: 8 (2%)
- Collaborative Law: 2 (<1%)
- Construction: 21 (5%)
- Consumer: 12 (3%)
- Contracts: 40 (9%)
- Creditor-Debtor: 16 (4%)
- Criminal: 13 (3%)
- Disability Law: 6 (1%)
- Elder Law: 2 (<1%)
- Entertainment: 5 (1%)
- Environmental: 6 (1%)
- Ethics-Legal Malpractice: 4 (<1%)
- Family: 18 (4%)
- Finance: 27 (6%)
- Government/Administrative: 29 (7%)
- Health Care: 31 (7%)
- Immigration: 36 (8%)
- Insurance: 25 (6%)
- Intellectual Property: 67 (15%)
- International: 31 (7%)
- Juvenile: 2 (<1%)
- Labor-Employment: 38 (9%)
- Law Office Management: 2 (<1%)
- Legislative / Campaign: 4 (<1%)
- Litigation: Commercial: 81 (18%)
- Litigation: Personal Injury: 40 (9%)
- Mediation: 4 (<1%)
- Military: 5 (1%)
- Non-Profits: 13 (3%)
- Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law: 32 (7%)
- Other: 23 (5%)
- Public Utility: 2 (<1%)
- Real Estate: 39 (9%)
- School Law: 8 (2%)
- Securities Law: 21 (5%)
- Social Security Law: 2 (<1%)
- Taxation: 19 (4%)
- Technology: 43 (10%)
- Wills-Trusts-Probate: 19 (4%)
- Workers’ Compensation: 1 (<1%)