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Tax disputes and IRS problems in New Jersey: market data
What public records say about the market for tax disputes and irs problems in New Jersey: how much demand the courts and agencies count, how many law offices serve it, how many people need help in Spanish, and the ad rules that apply. Every number links to the record it comes from.
Nearby data
Start from what New Jersey publishes: the practice areas with the most public figures, and the states with the most data for tax disputes and irs problems. Each links to its own record-by-record page.
Practice areas with the most demand figures in New Jersey
- Personal injury 19 demand figures
- Mass torts 17 demand figures
- Employment law 16 demand figures
- Social Security disability (SSDI and SSI) 11 demand figures
- Consumer protection 10 demand figures
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Lawyer supply
How many law offices and lawyers the federal statistics count here.
| Measure | Value | Period | Place | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New lawyers admitted | 1,829 lawyers a year | 2025 | New Jersey state | bar-pipeline v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721443 record nj-bar-pipeline · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Counties under 1 law office per 10,000 residents | 0 counties | 2026-Q1 | New Jersey state | deserts v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721430 record deserts-34 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Counties with no law office | 0 counties | 2026-Q1 | New Jersey state | deserts v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721430 record deserts-34 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Residents living in those low-office counties | 0 percent of residents | 2026-Q1 | New Jersey state | deserts v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721430 record deserts-34 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Employer law firms | 4,741 firms | 2022 | New Jersey state | law-firm-economy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739997 record lfe-nj-all · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Receipts of employer law firms | 8,595,255,000 US dollars | 2022 | New Jersey state | law-firm-economy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739997 record lfe-nj-all · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Law offices per 10,000 residents | 5.55 per 10,000 residents | 2026-Q1 | New Jersey state | law-offices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721415 record law-offices-34 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Self-employed lawyers (nonemployer firms) | 9,091 firms | latest Nonemployer Statistics year | New Jersey state | law-offices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721415 record law-offices-34 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Private law offices | 5,296 establishments | 2026-Q1 | New Jersey state | law-offices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721415 record law-offices-34 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Lawyers employed (wage-earning, BLS OEWS) | 23,160 jobs | May 2025 | New Jersey state | lawyer-wages v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734840 record lawyer-wages:NJ:231011:2025 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Median annual wage of employed lawyers | 161,430 US dollars a year | May 2025 | New Jersey state | lawyer-wages v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734840 record lawyer-wages:NJ:231011:2025 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
Spanish-language demand
People who speak Spanish and speak English less than very well, and the lawyers who speak Spanish, from the Census Bureau survey (with margins of error).
| Measure | Value | Period | Place | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers who speak Spanish at home (ACS) | 2,025 ±437 lawyers | 2020-2024 | New Jersey state | language v1.1.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23656758 record language:state:NJ:lawyers-spanish · status P · checked 2026-10-25 |
| Spanish speakers with limited English per Spanish-speaking lawyer | 345 ±74.5 people per lawyer | 2020-2024 | New Jersey state | language v1.1.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23656758 record language:state:NJ:lep-per-spanish-lawyer · status P · checked 2026-10-25 |
| Spanish speakers with limited English (ACS) | 698,739 ±8,114 people age 5+ | 2020-2024 | New Jersey state | language v1.1.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23656758 record language:state:NJ:spanish-lep · status P · checked 2026-10-25 |
| Spanish speakers with limited English | 698,739 ±8,869 people age 5+ | 2020-2024 | New Jersey state | legal-need v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23741886 record legal-need-nj · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
Ad rules that apply
The rules a law firm's ads in New Jersey have to meet, summarized from the official texts. The full rules, with quotes, are on the state page.
| Topic | Status | What it says |
|---|---|---|
| Ad filing or review | P primary source | No filing or pre-approval of ads is required by RPC 7.1-7.5. A copy or recording of each ad, with a record of when and where it was used, is kept 3 years (7.2(b)). Website content is captured at least monthly and kept 3 years (7.2(b)). official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Required content | P primary source | Every ad must include contact information for the lawyer or firm: a street address, mailing address, phone, fax, email or website URL (Attorney Advertising Guideline 1). official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Waiting periods for contact | P primary source | Unsolicited direct contact with a prospective client within thirty days after a specific mass-disaster event, about compensation arising from the event, is barred (7.3(b)(4)). official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Claims and results | P primary source | A lawyer may not create an unjustified expectation about results (7.1(a)(2)). Comparing services with other lawyers needs the comparing organization named, a substantiated basis, and the line 'No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme… official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Paying for referrals | P primary source | A lawyer may not give anything of value for a recommendation, except reasonable ad costs, practice-sale notices and the usual charges of a not-for-profit lawyer referral service (7.2(c)); 7.3(d) allows usual and reasonable fees of a bar-approved referral… official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Call recording | P primary source | One-party consent: a party to a call, or someone with one party's prior consent, may record it, unless the purpose is a crime, a tort or another injurious act (N.J.S.A. 2A:156A-4). official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Texting | P primary source | New Jersey bars unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to customers on its no telemarketing call list. A violation is an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act, subject to its penalties (N.J.S.A. 56:8-132). official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Ad filing or review | P primary source | New Jersey: no filing or review of lawyer ads is required. official source · filing v1.2.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721409 · checked 2026-10-25 |
| Paying for referrals | P primary source | Lawyers in different firms may split a fee if the split matches the work each does, or if each lawyer takes joint responsibility by a written agreement with the client, and the total fee is reasonable. official source · referral v1.1.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23747113 · checked 2026-10-27 |
Prices and pay (national)
| Measure | Value | Period | Place | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jobs in legal services (seasonally adjusted) | 1,249 thousand jobs | 2026-09 | United States United States | legal-prices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734854 record legal-prices:CES6054110001:2026-09 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| CPI-U: legal services | 230 index | 2026-09 | United States United States | legal-prices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734854 record legal-prices:CUUR0000SEGC01:2026-09 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| PPI: offices of lawyers | 338 index | 2026-09 | United States United States | legal-prices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734854 record legal-prices:PCU541110541110:2026-09 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
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The rows behind this page, with every dataset, version, DOI, record id and check date.
Cite as: Probative Growth, The new-lawyer pipeline by jurisdiction: bar exam pass rates and new admissions, 2025 v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721443); Legal deserts: law offices and lawyers per resident in every U.S. county v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721430); Spanish-speaking demand vs Spanish-speaking lawyer supply, by state and metro v1.1.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23656758); Law firm size, solos and receipts, by state: Census SUSB 2022, Nonemployer Statistics 2024 and Economic Census 2022 v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739997); Law offices, jobs and pay by county, with solo-practice counts: BLS QCEW, Census CBP and Nonemployer Statistics v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721415); Lawyer, paralegal and legal-staff pay by state and metro (BLS OEWS) v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734840); Legal need by county: who may need a lawyer, from the American Community Survey v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23741886); Legal-services prices and jobs, monthly (BLS CPI, PPI and CES) v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734854); CC BY 4.0. https://probativegrowth.com/markets/new-jersey/tax/
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Each figure is copied from one record of the dataset named with it, joined to this state and practice through the open practice and place crosswalk. Nothing is estimated. Methods, inputs and limits.