The Bahamas Bar Association is the largest single professional organization in The Bahamas, apart from the teachers. With 991 members at the end of 2008, it is larger than the associations of accountants, architects, engineers, bankers, financial and analysts and most other professions. Indeed, with a population of over 300,000, The Bahamas is in the top 25 countries of the world with the highest concentrations of lawyers. There is a lawyer for every 500 persons. That concentration is lower than in the U.S. but, you are more likely to run into a lawyer on the street corner in The Bahamas than inmost other countries of the world.