What percentage of Americans are lawyers?

As of 2006 the current US population was 299,398,484

As of 2007 the number of Active lawyers in the US is 1,143,358

1 percent of 299,398.484 is 2,993,984 therefore less than 1 percent of Americans are Lawyers.

On a side note I heard that if you were to interview 100 people, 1 out of 100 would be a lawyer.