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Virtual data rooms in Atlanta, GA

Virtual data rooms for Atlanta deals, audits and legal matters

Deals, audits and legal matters in Atlanta run on documents too sensitive for email attachments. Census figures for 2023 put 4,050 law offices and 3,125 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms with paid staff in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro; ShareAndGo gives each matter a data room with access you control and an audit trail you can export.

What sets Atlanta's economy apart

Wholesale agents and brokers is where Atlanta is most unlike the rest of the country: 1,223 establishments, a share of local businesses 1.8 times the national one. Next come warehousing (602 establishments, 1.4 times) and film, television and music production (818 establishments, 1.4 times). Of the 61 metros on these pages with published figures for wholesale agents and brokers, Atlanta ranks 3rd, behind Birmingham, AL and others.

Brokerage and agency businesses sell on the strength of their principal agreements and commission histories.

Warehouse sales and leasebacks bring leases, environmental reports and tenant files to many reviewers at once. In warehousing, Atlanta places 9th of 61 metros here; Riverside, CA leads.

The firms that share confidential documents in Atlanta

Law in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro is mostly a small-firm business: 73 percent of its 4,050 law offices have fewer than five employees, against a median of 70 percent across the metros on these pages.

On the deal side, the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro also counts 2,284 securities and investment establishments, 977 corporate and regional managing offices and 4,483 real estate brokerages.

Those five groups make up 14,919 of the 163,103 employer establishments counted in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro, about 9 percent.

  • Offices of lawyers (NAICS 541110): 4,050
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services (NAICS 5412): 3,125
  • Offices of certified public accountants (NAICS 541211): 1,160
  • Securities, commodity contracts and like activity (NAICS 523): 2,284
  • Corporate, subsidiary and regional managing offices (NAICS 551114): 977
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers (NAICS 531210): 4,483
  • Law offices by size: 2,966 under 5 employees, 575 with 5 to 9, 271 with 10 to 19, 156 with 20 to 49, 82 with 50 or more
  • Employees in law offices, mid-March 2023: about 28,000
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 29,000

How Atlanta compares

The Census Bureau estimated the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro's population at 6,411,149 in July 2024, up 304,344 or 5.0 percent on the April 2020 base of 6,106,805.

Measured against the 2023 estimate of 6,336,015, the same year as the business count, Atlanta has 63.9 offices of lawyers per 100,000 residents, 15th of the 59 metro areas on these pages against a median of 52.6; the nearest rates are New York, NY at 64.6 and San Francisco, CA at 64.7.

The metro with the closest number of law offices is Dallas, TX, with 3,969; the metro closest in population, Washington, DC at 6,436,489 residents, has 3,508 law offices and 2,491 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments.

Counted by accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms instead, Atlanta's nearest match is Houston, TX, with 2,857.

  • Residents, July 2024: 6,411,149
  • Residents, April 2020 base: 6,106,805
  • Change since 2020: +304,344 (5.0 percent), 19th of 59
  • Law offices per 100,000 residents: 63.9, 15th of 59
  • Accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll per 100,000 residents: 49.3, 14th of 59
  • Securities and investment per 100,000 residents: 36.0, 35th of 59
  • Managing offices per 100,000 residents: 15.4, 26th of 59
  • Real estate agents and brokers per 100,000 residents: 70.8, 16th of 59
  • Employees in offices of lawyers: about 28,000
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 29,000

Where Atlanta's firms are

The Census definition of the metro takes in 29 counties. Taken one by one, Fulton County had 1,626 offices of lawyers, DeKalb County 629 and Cobb County 586.

Fulton County alone holds 40 percent of the metro total, and the 26 counties beyond those three hold 1,206 between them.

  • Fulton County: 1,626
  • DeKalb County: 629
  • Cobb County: 586
  • Gwinnett County: 443
  • Cherokee County: 101
  • Forsyth County: 99
  • Fayette County: 68
  • Henry County: 66
  • Coweta County: 53
  • Rockdale County: 45
  • The other 19 counties: 331

The courts and regulators behind Atlanta paperwork

When an Atlanta dispute reaches federal court, it goes to 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.

What a ShareAndGo data room does for Atlanta property work

Here is what a ShareAndGo room gives brokerages and property deal teams in Atlanta.

  • Nested folders with drag and drop let you file documents by workstream, such as financials, legal and property.
  • 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.

Atlanta FAQ

How many Atlanta law practices have paid staff?
The Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns puts 4,050 offices of lawyers with paid employees in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro, 2,966 of them with fewer than five employees.
How many of the Atlanta area's law offices are in Fulton County?
Fulton County holds 1,626 of the metro's 4,050, followed by DeKalb County with 629.
Can I keep one party out of some folders?
Yes. Access groups set each folder to allow, deny or inherit, and a denied folder is hidden from that group completely rather than grayed out.

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