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Virtual data rooms in Arizona

Virtual data rooms for Arizona firms

Arizona has 6,269 real estate offices, 3,223 accounting and tax firms, 3,088 law offices and 2,493 securities and investment firms with paid employees. Its breach notice rule runs on forty-five days. ShareAndGo is a virtual data room for the documents these firms share during deals, audits and legal matters.

The firms that share confidential documents in Arizona

County Business Patterns counted 162,845 employer establishments in Arizona in 2023. Set against the other states and DC by population, Arizona places 6th for offices of real estate agents and brokers, at 83.9 per 100,000, 15th for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms, at 43.1, and 28th for securities and investment firms, at 33.4. For law, 3,088 offices make 41.3 per 100,000 and a rank of 33rd.

These are mostly small businesses. 2,301 of the state's law offices and 2,054 of its securities and investment firms have fewer than five employees.

  • Offices of lawyers: 3,088
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services: 3,223
  • Securities and investment firms: 2,493
  • Corporate and regional managing offices: 791
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers: 6,269

Where those firms are

The Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro has 2,339 of Arizona's 3,088 law offices, 76 percent, and our Phoenix page goes through its figures in detail. Tucson follows with 463 and Prescott Valley-Prescott with 77.

By county, Maricopa County leads with 2,307 law offices, ahead of Pima County (463), Yavapai County (77) and Coconino County (48). Those four hold 94 percent of the state's total.

What sets Phoenix apart

Against the national mix, Phoenix runs heaviest in real estate: 8,543 establishments, 1.5 times the share you would see across the country; nursing and residential care (1,762, 1.4 times) and outpatient health care (12,284, 1.3 times) come next.

How Arizona compares

The Census Bureau estimated Arizona's population at 7,582,384 in July 2024, up 5.9 percent from the April 2020 base of 7,158,110.

On law offices per 100,000 residents, Arizona sits next to Delaware at 41.5 and Nebraska at 41.1, against 41.3 here. Across the 50 states and DC the combined rate is 49.1.

Small offices make up 75 percent of the state's law offices, against 72 percent across the 50 states and DC.

Arizona's forty-five-day breach clock

Arizona sets its notice rules in A.R.S. § 18-552, with the definitions in § 18-551.

The duty applies to a person that conducts business in Arizona and owns, maintains or licenses unencrypted and unredacted computerized personal information.

The forty-five days run from the determination, and the statute frames all three steps as things the person "shall" do within that period.

  • Affected individuals: Within forty-five days after the determination
  • Attorney General and the Director of the Arizona Department of Homeland Security: When the breach requires notice to more than one thousand individuals
  • The three largest nationwide consumer reporting agencies: Also when more than one thousand individuals must be notified

The substantial economic loss exception

Arizona lets a business skip individual notice if the person, an independent third-party forensic auditor or a law enforcement agency determines after a reasonable investigation that the breach has not resulted in, and is not reasonably likely to result in, substantial economic loss to affected individuals.

This test turns on economic loss rather than harm in general, and it names three kinds of investigator who can make the call.

Our Arizona breach notification page sets out the data elements and the rule in full, and says which text we checked. This is general information, not legal advice.

What a ShareAndGo room gives an Arizona team

For documents you share through ShareAndGo, the activity log records every view and download, and watermarked view-only pages carry the reader's email address and the date.

That watermark is a per-room setting and is on by default, so pages opened inside a room show who read them and on what day. Recipients confirm their email with a six-digit code and need no account, which means each log line names a confirmed address rather than a shared link. Because groups see only their own folders, the export is short to review: one CSV, one row per action, covering every reader of the room.

The courts and regulators behind Arizona paperwork

Federal cases from Arizona are heard in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, whose Phoenix courthouse is the Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse. CPAs practicing in Arizona are licensed by the Arizona State Board of Accountancy.

At state level, securities offerings and investment advisers in Arizona come under the Arizona Corporation Commission, Securities Division.

Arizona FAQ

How many law offices are there in Arizona?
County Business Patterns 2023 counted 3,088 offices of lawyers with paid employees in Arizona, 2,301 of them with fewer than five employees. Maricopa County has the most, 2,307.
What is the Arizona deadline?
Within forty-five days after the determination, the person that owns or licenses the data must notify the individuals affected.
Which agencies hear about a large breach?
If more than one thousand individuals must be notified, the attorney general, the director of the Arizona Department of Homeland Security and the three largest nationwide consumer reporting agencies are all notified.
Do people I share documents with need an account?
No. Readers confirm their email with a six-digit code, with no account to create.

Arizona metros

Phoenix, AZ

Data rooms for Phoenix's 2,339 law offices and 2,254 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms, with audit trails and view-only access.

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Arizona data breach notification law

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