cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as: Probative Growth, Attorneys by county in Ohio, California, Michigan, Idaho, Arizona, Washington and Pennsylvania, from each bar's public counts, 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23962861. Source: Probative, Attorneys by county in Ohio, California, Michigan, Idaho, Arizona, Washington and Pennsylvania, from each bar's public counts, version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23962861, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "Attorneys by county in Ohio, California, Michigan, Idaho, Arizona, Washington and Pennsylvania, from each bar's public counts"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "2.0.0"
date-released: 2026-11-04
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23962861
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/attorneys/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "How many lawyers each bar counts in each county, for seven states. Ohio: attorneys by county of address and status, from the Supreme Court of Ohio's attorney directory list (88 counties, with admission decade, private practice and Spanish speakers). California: active, inactive, judge and not-eligible licensees in each of the 58 counties, from the State Bar's county table. Michigan: active State Bar members living in each of the 83 counties, with private practice and the change from 2024. Idaho: members by status in each of the seven judicial districts. Arizona: active State Bar members in each of the 15 counties (the Bar's 2022 report). Washington: WSBA licensees of every type (lawyers plus limited licensees) in each of the 39 counties, with the attorney counts by member type. Pennsylvania: active attorneys in the seven counties the Disciplinary Board's annual report lists, and the Board's statewide status counts. Each record carries the source's own as-of date and a rate per 10,000 residents from the Census Bureau's county estimate. Only counts are published, and where a count is built from a directory file no name, birthdate, address or registration number is kept or written. In Ohio, counts in a disciplinary, deceased or other status, an admission decade, private practice or Spanish are published from five lawyers up, and only where no smaller count in the same group can be worked out from a county's total or the statewide figures. Every state record ties to its source's own total, and every published number is read a second time from the source file before release."
keywords:
  - "attorneys by county"
  - "number of lawyers in Ohio"
  - "number of lawyers in California"
  - "lawyers per 10,000 residents"
  - "active attorneys by county"
  - "state bar membership by county"
  - "number of lawyers in Michigan"