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Article: Lawyers dwindle in senate.(Law Firms)(Brief Article)
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- Arkansas Business
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- June 7, 2004
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THE NUMBER OF LAWYERS IN the 35-member Arkansas Senate has decreased from 13 (37 percent of the total) to two (5.7 percent) over the past decade.
But the number of lawyers in the 100-member state House of Representatives has increased from 11 to 15 during that time.
It's not necessarily that fewer lawyers are being elected to the Senate, said Charles Schlumberger, chair of the Legislation Committee for the Arkansas Bar Association. He believes fewer lawyers are running for the Legislature in general.
"These days, more and more, it seems being a legislator is becoming almost a full-time job," Schlumberger said. "It is extremely hard to run a ...