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Virtual data rooms in North Dakota

Virtual data rooms for North Dakota firms

North Dakota has 373 real estate offices, 303 accounting and tax firms, 305 law offices and 349 securities and investment firms with paid employees. Our read of its breach notice rule covers a long list of covered data, the lack of a harm exception, and Attorney General notice once a breach exceeds 250 people. 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 North Dakota

County Business Patterns counted 25,402 employer establishments in North Dakota in 2023. Set against the other states and DC by population, North Dakota places 9th for securities and investment firms, at 44.2 per 100,000, 22nd for offices of real estate agents and brokers, at 47.3, and 27th for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms, at 38.4. Law offices number 305, or 38.7 per 100,000, which is 41st.

These are mostly small businesses. 212 of the state's law offices and 294 of its securities and investment firms have fewer than five employees.

  • Offices of lawyers: 305
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services: 303
  • Securities and investment firms: 349
  • Corporate and regional managing offices: 101
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers: 373

Where those firms are

By county, Cass County leads with 74 law offices, ahead of Burleigh County (72), Grand Forks County (30) and Ward County (25). Those four hold 66 percent of the state's total.

Our Fargo page goes through its figures in detail.

What sets Fargo apart

Fargo's business mix leans furthest toward wholesale distribution of durable goods, with 289 establishments at 1.5 times the national share; heavy and civil engineering construction (48, 1.4 times) and specialty trade contractors (635, 1.4 times) come next.

How North Dakota compares

The Census Bureau estimated North Dakota's population at 796,568 in July 2024, up 2.2 percent from the April 2020 base of 779,046.

On law offices per 100,000 residents, North Dakota sits next to Hawaii at 39.1 and Kansas at 38.6, against 38.7 here. Across the 50 states and DC the combined rate is 49.1.

Small offices make up 70 percent of the state's law offices, against 72 percent across the 50 states and DC.

North Dakota's breach notice rule

North Dakota's Notice of Security Breach for Personal Information is chapter 51-30 of the Century Code.

Notice goes to any resident whose unencrypted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person. The disclosure must be made in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay.

Chapter 51-30 contains no risk-of-harm exception; the trigger is acquisition of unencrypted personal information. No fixed number of days appears in the chapter as read.

The 250-person line

A business shall disclose to the attorney general by mail or electronic mail any breach of the security system which exceeds two hundred fifty individuals. Below that number, the chapter as read asks for resident notice only. Counting accurately therefore matters twice: once to address every affected resident, and again to know whether the Attorney General's copy is owed. A business that cannot tell whether it is at 240 or 260 people has a records problem before it has a legal one.

Our North Dakota 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 a North Dakota team

Signatures, birth dates and insurance details tend to travel as attachments to agreements.

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.

Each room's watermark setting begins switched on. Recipients confirm their email with a six-digit code and do not need an account, and groups open only their own folders. The chained log exports as CSV, so the count of people who opened a given file inside ShareAndGo can be read off rather than estimated.

The courts and regulators behind North Dakota paperwork

Federal cases from North Dakota are heard in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota. CPAs practicing in North Dakota are licensed by the North Dakota State Board of Accountancy.

At state level, securities offerings and investment advisers in North Dakota come under the North Dakota Insurance and Securities Department.

North Dakota FAQ

How many law offices are there in North Dakota?
County Business Patterns 2023 counted 305 offices of lawyers with paid employees in North Dakota, 212 of them with fewer than five employees. Cass County has the most, 74.
Is there a risk-of-harm exception?
No. The chapter turns on acquisition of unencrypted personal information.
When does the Attorney General hear?
When a breach exceeds two hundred fifty individuals, by mail or electronic mail.
Do people I share documents with need an account?
No. Readers confirm their email with a six-digit code, with no account to create.

North Dakota metros

Fargo, ND

Data rooms for Fargo's 85 law offices and 112 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms, with audit trails and view-only access.

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North Dakota data breach notification law

About the figures on our location pages