Data · New York attorneys
New York lawyers, county by county
How many lawyers have an office in each New York county, how many are currently registered, how many have lapsed, resigned or died, and how long ago they were admitted. We count the New York court system's public attorney registration list, publish counts only and check every county against the state total and the American Bar Association's count.
What is in this dataset?
How many lawyers are on New York's official attorney registration list, county by county. For each of the 62 counties the file counts the attorneys whose office address is there by registration status (currently registered, inside the 30-day reregistration window, delinquent, resigned, deceased, disbarred or suspended, incapacitated), by decade of admission to the New York bar, and per 10,000 residents using the Census Bureau's county population estimate. Further records count registrations with an office in each other state or territory, registrations with no office address in the public file, and the four judicial departments of admission, and the state record carries the admission-year history. Only counts are published: no name, address, phone number, firm or registration number is read, because the pull asks the court's open data portal for server-side totals and never downloads rows. Counts of one to four in a disciplinary status or an admission decade are withheld. Every record adds up to the state, the state ties to the source's own row count, and the American Bar Association's 2025 count of New York resident active lawyers sits between the two bounds the file allows.
Use it to see how many lawyers already serve a New York county before choosing where to advertise: active attorneys per 10,000 residents, how many are newly admitted, and how many are no longer in practice (delinquent, resigned, deceased). A county here is where the attorney's office is, not where clients live, and a lawyer in New York City may serve clients across the state. More than a quarter of the active attorneys have no office address in the public file and another quarter list an office outside New York, so county totals count lawyers with a published New York office, not every New York license.
- Records
- 130
- Look up by
- 1
- state or county
- Primary source
- 130
The letters are explained in what P, S, D and U mean.
Where does the data come from?
The court system's open data portal is asked for server-side totals only (counts grouped by county, registration status, state of the office address, year of admission and judicial department), so no row of the registration file is downloaded; counts are rolled up to status groups and admission decades, matched to the shared county list, and cells of one to four in a disciplinary status or admission decade are withheld.
- Period covered
- October 28, 2026
- Places
- States and counties
- How often we refresh it
- Every quarter
- The source's next release
- January 2027
- Records read
- October 28, 2026
Official sources
- NYS Unified Court System, Office of Court Administration, by official API. OPEN NY Terms of Use: no attribution, share-alike or pre-approval requirement; reuse must be lawful. The file is the public part of the attorney registration database under 22 NYCRR 118. Only server-side counts are read; no name, address or phone number is kept..
- U.S. Census Bureau, by bulk download. Public domain (17 U.S.C. 105). County population estimates for the per-10,000 rates..
The sources the records cite most
- NYS Attorney Registrations (Office of Court Administration), data.ny.gov: 130 records
- OPEN NY Terms of Use: 130 records
What does a record look like?
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New York: 434,674 attorney registrations in the court system's public file, of which 287,776 are currently registered and 335,530 are active counting 47,754 inside their 30-day reregistration window. Of the active attorneys, 153,880 have an office address in New York, 87,816 elsewhere and 93,834 no published address. Median admission year of the active: 2007. Court registration file, updated 2026-10-28.
Status P · checked October 28, 2026 · source: NYS Attorney Registrations (Office of Court Administration), data.ny.gov
The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below.
What each of the 27 main columns means
jurisdiction- NY: every record is a New York registration
level- county (office address in that New York county), county-not-given (an office in New York with no county in the file), address-outside-ny (one per state, territory or military code of an office outside New York), address-not-published (no office address in the public file), department (judicial department of admission) or state (all registrations)
county- 5-digit county FIPS code (vintage 2025); empty for other levels
countyName- County name as the Census Bureau writes it; for department records the department's name
stateName- New York
addressState- Two-letter code of the state, territory or military post office of the office address; NY for county records; empty where no address is published
addressPlace- Name of that place, address-outside-ny records
department- Department records: 1, 2, 3 or 4 (the Appellate Division department of admission, not the office location)
year- Year the court file was last updated
value- Attorneys currently registered in the record's group
registered- Registration status Currently registered
due_to_reregister- Status Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday: still registered, in the window to renew
active- Currently registered plus those in the 30-day reregistration window
delinquent- Status Delinquent: registration lapsed
resigned- Status Resigned (not for disciplinary reasons)
deceased- Status Deceased
discipline_related- Disbarred, resigned from the bar for a disciplinary reason, or suspended (currently registered, delinquent or due to reregister); withheld when 1 to 4
incapacitated- Status Incapacitated; withheld when 1 to 4
total- All registrations in the record's group, any status
population- County residents, Census estimate of July 1, 2025 (county records)
active_per_10k- Active attorneys per 10,000 county residents, one decimal
admitted_pre1970- Active attorneys admitted to the New York bar before 1970 (withheld when 1 to 4); the other admitted_ columns are the decades 1970s to 2020s
median_admission_year- Median year of admission of the active attorneys (empty below 20 active)
active_ny_county- State record: active attorneys with an office in a New York county
active_outside_ny- State record: active attorneys with an office outside New York
active_address_not_published- State record: active attorneys with no office address in the public file
years- State record: active attorneys by year of admission
How do I use it in my own tools?
nyattorneys_lookup- For the key NY: attorneys registered with the New York courts for the state and all 62 counties, by status, admission decade and per 10,000 residents, with offices outside New York and the departments of admission.
nyattorneys_search- Records whose text matches the words given, such as a county name ("Erie County"), a place of office ("New Jersey"), a department of admission or a 5-digit county FIPS code.
How to cite this dataset
You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source.
- Version
- 1.0.0, released October 29, 2026
- Every version
- 10.5281/zenodo.23753007 (always points to the newest)
- License
- CC BY 4.0
Download the data
- CSV: ny-attorneys.csv 118 KB · one row per record (columns in README.txt)
- JSON: ny-attorneys.json 235 KB · every record with its sources
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Suggested citation
Probative. (2026). Attorneys registered with the New York courts, by county, status and year of admission (NYS Office of Court Administration) (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23753008
Credit line for a chart, table or article
Source: Probative, Attorneys registered with the New York courts, by county, status and year of admission (NYS Office of Court Administration), version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23753008, licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Not legal advice. These are counts of attorney registrations from the New York court system's public registration file, kept for research and marketing planning. A registration status is the court's record, not a judgment of any lawyer's skill or standing beyond that record, and a county is the county of the office address the lawyer gave, not where the lawyer practises or where clients live. Rights and deadlines in a matter are for your own counsel.
What changed recently?
- 2026-10-28 · Attorneys registered with the New York courts, counted by county of office address, status and year of admission, from the court system's public registration file. (source)
The full log is in changes.json.
What are the limits?
- A county here is the county of the office address a lawyer gave the court, not where the lawyer's clients live or where cases are filed. A lawyer with an office in Manhattan can serve clients anywhere in the state.
- The court's public file leaves the office address blank for a large share of registrations, and about a quarter of the active attorneys list an office outside New York. County counts are lawyers with a published New York office, so a county's real supply can be larger. The state record shows each part.
- Active means currently registered, plus lawyers inside the 30-day window to renew their biennial registration. Delinquent, resigned, deceased, suspended and disbarred lawyers are counted in their own columns and not in the active count.
- Counts of one to four lawyers in a disciplinary or incapacity status, and in a decade of admission, are left out so no single lawyer can be picked out. Totals are never left out.
- Registration is not practice: a registered lawyer may be retired, in-house, in government or practising another kind of law, and the file has no practice area. The file is posted by the court quarterly and shows each lawyer's latest registration.
- Records older than 135 days since their last check are marked
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