ABSTRACTThis study analyzed consumer households with expenditures on legal services to show attorneys how to profile the changing market. Two years from the annual Survey of Consumer Expenditures, 1984 and 1994, contrasted self-paying household clients for legal services. Within each year, demographic, economic, and social characteristics were predictors. Changes from decade to decade were tested for income, age, education, type of employment, income, rural/urban, race, origin, employment status, marital status, dual income families, and family type.Some similarities in client profile existed, but income, age, education, marital status, work status, type of employment, and family type showed significant differences.