cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as below. Source: Probative, Demand per law office, by state: residents, bankruptcy cases, fatal crashes, divorces, Spanish speakers and evictions for each law office, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23851281, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "Demand per law office, by state: residents, bankruptcy cases, fatal crashes, divorces, Spanish speakers and evictions for each law office"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "1.0.0"
date-released: 2026-11-01
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23851281
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/demand-per-law-office/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "Where there is the most legal demand for each law office. Five public datasets joined by state: private law-office establishments (2026 Q1, 177,138 in the 51 states) against residents, bankruptcy cases commenced (12 months ending 2026-09-30), fatal crashes (2024), divorces in the last 12 months and Spanish speakers with limited English (ACS 2020-2024), and eviction filings for the 23 states with recent eviction data. Each state is placed in the highest, middle or lowest third on every ratio and overall."
keywords:
  - "legal demand per law office"
  - "law offices per capita by state"
  - "bankruptcy cases per law office"
  - "where to open a law firm"
  - "legal market demand by state"