{"meta":{"dataset":"certified-specialists","title":"Board-certified lawyers by practice area and state: specialist counts from official state lists (Tennessee and Minnesota)","version":"1.0.0","doi":"10.5281/zenodo.23850651","doiUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23850651","conceptDoi":"10.5281/zenodo.23850650","license":"CC BY 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Source: Probative, Board-certified lawyers by practice area and state: specialist counts from official state lists (Tennessee and Minnesota), version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23850651, licensed CC BY 4.0.","citation":"Probative. (2026). Board-certified lawyers by practice area and state: specialist counts from official state lists (Tennessee and Minnesota) (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23850651","disclaimer":"Not legal advice. Not a recommendation of any lawyer. These are counts of certifications on official state lists, as the lists stood on the dates shown; a lawyer can hold more than one certification, and certification is voluntary, so the counts say nothing about the quality of lawyers who are not certified.","notice":"Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm; not legal advice.","lastChecked":"2026-10-31","url":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/certified-specialists/changes.json","humanUrl":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/certified-specialists/","statusCodes":{"P":"primary source","S":"secondary source"}},"changes":[{"id":"certified-specialists-2026-10-31-first","date":"2026-10-31","jurisdiction":"US","records":["certified-specialists:MN:2025","certified-specialists:TN:2026"],"status":"P","title":"Board-certified specialists by state first published","summary":"Counts of board-certified lawyers by practice area from official state lists: Tennessee (239 certifications on the Commission's roll) and Minnesota (560 at the end of 2025).","source":{"label":"Tennessee Commission on CLE; Minnesota Board of Legal Certification","url":"https://blc.mn.gov/about/annual-reports/"},"dataset":"certified-specialists"}]}