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Virtual data rooms in Georgia

Virtual data rooms for Georgia firms

Georgia has 6,227 real estate offices, 4,638 accounting and tax firms, 5,944 law offices and 3,141 securities and investment firms with paid employees. 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 Georgia

County Business Patterns counted 261,320 employer establishments in Georgia in 2023. Set against the other states and DC by population, Georgia places 17th for offices of real estate agents and brokers, at 56.3 per 100,000, 18th for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms, at 41.9, and 38th for securities and investment firms, at 28.4. Law offices number 5,944, or 53.7 per 100,000, which is 13th.

These are mostly small businesses. 4,380 of the state's law offices and 2,521 of its securities and investment firms have fewer than five employees.

  • Offices of lawyers: 5,944
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services: 4,638
  • Securities and investment firms: 3,141
  • Corporate and regional managing offices: 1,282
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers: 6,227

Where those firms are

The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro has 4,050 of Georgia's 5,944 law offices, 68 percent, and our Atlanta page goes through its figures in detail. Savannah follows with 235 and Macon-Bibb County with 132.

By county, Fulton County leads with 1,626 law offices, ahead of DeKalb County (629), Cobb County (586) and Gwinnett County (443). Those four hold 55 percent of the state's total.

What sets Atlanta apart

Against the national mix, Atlanta runs heaviest in wholesale agents and brokers: 1,223 establishments, 1.8 times the share you would see across the country; warehousing (602, 1.4 times) and film, television and music production (818, 1.4 times) come next.

Beyond the law offices

Fulton County also leads the other fields, with 714 of Georgia's 4,638 accounting and tax firms, 1,038 of its 3,141 securities and investment firms and 1,372 of its 6,227 real estate offices.

Gwinnett County comes second for accounting and tax firms (641) and real estate offices (626), and Cobb County for securities and investment firms (325).

The Atlanta metro's pull is much the same across all of them. It has 73 percent of Georgia's securities and investment firms, 72 percent of its real estate offices and 67 percent of its accounting and tax firms.

How Georgia compares

The Census Bureau estimated Georgia's population at 11,180,878 in July 2024, up 4.4 percent from the April 2020 base of 10,713,755.

On law offices per 100,000 residents, Georgia sits next to Illinois at 54.7 and Connecticut at 53.6, against 53.7 here. Across the 50 states and DC the combined rate is 49.1.

Small offices make up 74 percent of the state's law offices, against 72 percent across the 50 states and DC.

What a ShareAndGo room gives a Georgia 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. Readers confirm their email with a six-digit code, with no account to create.

Because each group sees only its own folders and the log records each view, an investigation into one room starts from a defined list of people. The CSV export puts that list, with dates, into a spreadsheet the team already knows how to read.

The courts and regulators behind Georgia paperwork

Federal cases from Atlanta are heard in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, whose Atlanta courthouse is the Richard B. Russell Federal Building & United States Courthouse. CPAs practicing in Georgia are licensed by the Georgia State Board of Accountancy.

Georgia FAQ

How many law offices are there in Georgia?
County Business Patterns 2023 counted 5,944 offices of lawyers with paid employees in Georgia, 4,380 of them with fewer than five employees. Fulton County has the most, 1,626.
How many real estate offices are there in Georgia?
County Business Patterns 2023 counted 6,227 offices of real estate agents and brokers with paid employees in Georgia.
Do people I share documents with need an account?
No. Readers confirm their email with a six-digit code, with no account to create.

Georgia metros

Atlanta, GA

Data rooms for Atlanta's 4,050 law offices and 3,125 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms, with audit trails and view-only access.

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