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Virtual data rooms in Pennsylvania

Virtual data rooms for Pennsylvania firms

Pennsylvania has 3,092 real estate offices, 4,111 accounting and tax firms, 5,131 law offices and 3,976 securities and investment firms with paid employees. Our read of its breach notice rule covers loss or injury, notice without unreasonable delay, and Attorney General copies above 500. 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 Pennsylvania

County Business Patterns counted 307,065 employer establishments in Pennsylvania in 2023. Set against the other states and DC by population, Pennsylvania places 33rd for securities and investment firms, at 30.5 per 100,000, 43rd for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms, at 31.6, and 47th for offices of real estate agents and brokers, at 23.8. For law, 5,131 offices make 39.4 per 100,000 and a rank of 38th.

These are mostly small businesses. 3,382 of the state's law offices and 2,837 of its securities and investment firms have fewer than five employees.

  • Offices of lawyers: 5,131
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services: 4,111
  • Securities and investment firms: 3,976
  • Corporate and regional managing offices: 1,998
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers: 3,092

Where those firms are

By county, Philadelphia County leads with 934 law offices, ahead of Allegheny County (687), Montgomery County (523) and Delaware County (265). Those four hold 47 percent of the state's total.

Our Philadelphia page goes through its figures in detail.

What sets Philadelphia apart

Philadelphia's business mix leans furthest toward data processing and hosting, with 554 establishments at 1.6 times the national share; corporate and regional headquarters (1,469, 1.6 times) and chemical manufacturing (350, 1.3 times) come next.

How Pennsylvania compares

The Census Bureau estimated Pennsylvania's population at 13,078,751 in July 2024, up 0.6 percent from the April 2020 base of 13,002,909.

On law offices per 100,000 residents, Pennsylvania sits next to South Dakota at 39.7 and Virginia at 39.2, against 39.4 here. Across the 50 states and DC the combined rate is 49.1.

Small offices make up 66 percent of the state's law offices, against 72 percent across the 50 states and DC.

Pennsylvania's breach notice rule

Pennsylvania's Breach of Personal Information Notification Act is Act 94 of 2005, as amended, found at 73 P.S. § 2301 and following.

For a business, the notice shall be made without unreasonable delay. If notice must be given to more than 500 affected individuals in the Commonwealth, notice shall be made concurrently to the Office of Attorney General.

Public bodies run on a different clock: state agencies, counties, public schools and municipalities have separate deadlines of seven business days. Private businesses do not share that fixed count. A company that contracts with a state agency should read the medical information element with care, since it is tied to information held by an agency or its contractor.

Loss or injury

A breach under the act is one that causes, or that the entity reasonably believes has caused or will cause, loss or injury to any resident of the Commonwealth. When that is the case, notice goes to any resident whose unencrypted and unredacted personal information was or is reasonably believed to have been accessed and acquired by an unauthorized person.

Both halves matter: the data must have been accessed and acquired, and the incident must carry the prospect of loss or injury.

Our Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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.

Watermarks are a room-by-room setting, on unless switched off. Readers confirm their email with a six-digit code and need no account, and groups see only their folders. With the chained log exported as CSV, a Pennsylvania business can show which of its files kept in ShareAndGo were opened, by whom and when, without rebuilding that from email threads.

The courts and regulators behind Pennsylvania paperwork

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

At state level, securities offerings and investment advisers in Pennsylvania come under the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities.

Pennsylvania FAQ

How many law offices are there in Pennsylvania?
County Business Patterns 2023 counted 5,131 offices of lawyers with paid employees in Pennsylvania, 3,382 of them with fewer than five employees. Philadelphia County has the most, 934.
Is there a fixed deadline for businesses?
No number of days; the standard is without unreasonable delay.
When must the Attorney General hear?
Concurrently with resident notice, when more than 500 Pennsylvanians must be 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.

Pennsylvania metros

Philadelphia, PA

Data rooms for Philadelphia's 3,246 law offices and 2,222 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms, with audit trails and view-only access.

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Pennsylvania data breach notification law

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