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Virtual data rooms in Los Angeles, CA

Virtual data rooms for Los Angeles deals, audits and legal matters

By the Census Bureau's 2023 count, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro holds 11,330 offices of lawyers, 7,984 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms and 5,261 securities and investment firms with paid employees. ShareAndGo is a virtual data room for the documents they share during deals, audits, legal matters and fundraising.

What sets Los Angeles's economy apart

Compared with the United States as a whole, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro has an unusually large share of its businesses in apparel manufacturing: 1,391 establishments, 6.5 times the national share. Next come performing arts and live entertainment (19,990 establishments, 5.9 times) and film, television and music production (8,672 establishments, 5.8 times). No other metro on these pages has a higher concentration of apparel manufacturing, out of 55 with published figures.

Apparel makers trade design files, supplier contracts and compliance audits with buyers and lenders.

Venue, promoter and artist-management deals share booking contracts, rights and financial records. In performing arts and live entertainment, Los Angeles leads every metro on these pages.

The firms that share confidential documents in Los Angeles

Law in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro is mostly a small-firm business: 74 percent of its 11,330 law offices have fewer than five employees, against a median of 70 percent across the metros on these pages.

On the deal side, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro also counts 5,261 securities and investment establishments, 1,652 corporate and regional managing offices and 8,931 real estate brokerages.

Together they are 35,158 of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro's 411,949 employer establishments, or about 9 percent.

  • Offices of lawyers (NAICS 541110): 11,330
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services (NAICS 5412): 7,984
  • Offices of certified public accountants (NAICS 541211): 3,496
  • Securities, commodity contracts and like activity (NAICS 523): 5,261
  • Corporate, subsidiary and regional managing offices (NAICS 551114): 1,652
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers (NAICS 531210): 8,931
  • Law offices by size: 8,373 under 5 employees, 1,459 with 5 to 9, 752 with 10 to 19, 503 with 20 to 49, 243 with 50 or more
  • Employees in law offices, mid-March 2023: about 75,000
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 60,000

How Los Angeles compares

The Census Bureau estimated the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro's population at 12,927,614 in July 2024, down 277,043 or 2.1 percent on the April 2020 base of 13,204,657.

Measured against the 2023 estimate of 12,886,400, the same year as the business count, Los Angeles has 87.9 offices of lawyers per 100,000 residents, 4th of the 59 metro areas on these pages against a median of 52.6; the nearest rates are Charleston, WV at 80.3 and Oklahoma City, OK at 78.0.

The metro with the closest number of law offices is New York, NY, with 12,736; the metro closest in population, Chicago, IL at 9,408,576 residents, has 5,865 law offices and 4,171 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments.

Counted by accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms instead, Los Angeles's nearest match is Miami, FL, with 5,446.

  • Residents, July 2024: 12,927,614
  • Residents, April 2020 base: 13,204,657
  • Change since 2020: -277,043 (-2.1 percent), 55th of 59
  • Law offices per 100,000 residents: 87.9, 4th of 59
  • Accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll per 100,000 residents: 62.0, 5th of 59
  • Securities and investment per 100,000 residents: 40.8, 26th of 59
  • Managing offices per 100,000 residents: 12.8, 40th of 59
  • Real estate agents and brokers per 100,000 residents: 69.3, 18th of 59
  • Employees in offices of lawyers: about 75,000
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 60,000

Where Los Angeles's firms are

The metro is two counties. Los Angeles County had 8,461 of the law offices and Orange County had 2,869, so 75 percent of the metro's law offices are in Los Angeles County.

Among the California metros on these pages, Los Angeles ranks 1st of 4 by law offices: Los Angeles 11,330; San Francisco 2,984; San Diego 2,536; Riverside 985.

The courts and regulators behind Los Angeles paperwork

When a Los Angeles dispute reaches federal court, it goes to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

CPAs practicing in California are licensed by the California Board of Accountancy.

If personal information in a Los Angeles deal, audit or case file is exposed, California's data breach notification law sets who has to be told and when.

What a ShareAndGo data room does for Los Angeles legal work

For law firms and in-house legal teams in Los Angeles, a ShareAndGo room keeps the file in one place.

  • Access groups set each folder to allow, deny or inherit, and a denied folder is hidden from that group completely rather than grayed out.
  • View-only mode turns off downloading, printing and copying for the people you choose.

Los Angeles FAQ

How big is Los Angeles's legal market?
County Business Patterns 2023 counted 11,330 offices of lawyers with paid employees in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro, 8,373 of them with fewer than five employees.
How many of the Los Angeles area's law offices are in Los Angeles County?
Los Angeles County holds 8,461 of the metro's 11,330, followed by Orange County with 2,869.
Do the people I invite need a ShareAndGo account?
No. Guests confirm who they are with a one-time code sent to their email, so there is no password to remember and no account to create. It runs in the browser, so the people you invite install nothing.

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San Francisco, CA

San Diego, CA

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