The US legal market in numbers: headline findings from Probative's open datasets

Version 1.1.0. CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23748830

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Source: Probative, The US legal market in numbers: headline findings from Probative's open datasets, version 1.1.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23748830, licensed CC BY 4.0.

Suggested citation:
Probative. (2026). The US legal market in numbers: headline findings from Probative's open datasets (Version 1.1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23748830

Not legal advice. These are counts and rates computed from public data for marketing planning and reporting. Each figure has limits, listed with it, and none describes any one firm, case or person.
Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm; not legal advice.

Human page: https://probativegrowth.com/research/us-legal-market-in-numbers/

Columns:
  id: Stable record id (never reused)
  finding: The finding's number in this edition (F01, F02 ...); the report anchor is its lowercase form
  edition: The quarterly edition, YYYY-Qn
  topic: A short topic label
  value: The headline number (see unit)
  unit: What the value counts
  denominator: The number the value is out of, or divided by (see denominatorLabel)
  denominatorLabel: What the denominator counts
  period: The period or date the source data covers
  text: The record in one plain-English sentence
  textEs: The same sentence in Spanish
  limits: What the figure does not show
  sourceDataset: The Probative dataset(s) it is computed from, separated by semicolons
  sourceVersion: The version of each source dataset, in the same order
  sourceDoi: The DOI of each source dataset version, in the same order (empty when not yet minted)
  sourceRecord: The source record id(s), separated by semicolons
  sourceRecordUrl: The data API file holding the first source record
  anchor: The finding's link on the report page (the 'cite this figure' link)
  ogImage: A 1200 x 630 share image of the finding
  computed: The date the finding was computed
  status: P primary source, S secondary source
  lastChecked: The day it was last confirmed (YYYY-MM-DD)
  confidence: high, medium or low: computed from status, a second check, age against the refresh cadence and sampling error (rule: /data/#confidence)
  confidenceBasis: The reasons for the confidence level, in a short phrase