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Virtual data rooms in Dallas, TX

Virtual data rooms for Dallas deals, audits and legal matters

Dallas has 3,969 law offices and 3,263 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms with paid staff, by the Census Bureau's 2023 count. ShareAndGo gives Dallas teams a data room for that: one place per deal, audit or matter, with a record of who opened what.

What sets Dallas's economy apart

Compared with the United States as a whole, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro has an unusually large share of its businesses in corporate and regional headquarters: 1,750 establishments, 1.6 times the national share. Next come oilfield and mining support services (420 establishments, 1.5 times) and wholesale agents and brokers (1,189 establishments, 1.5 times). Of the 61 metros on these pages with published figures for corporate and regional headquarters, Dallas ranks 8th, behind Wilmington, DE and others.

Headquarters run the deals: acquisitions, divestitures and financings are managed from these offices.

Service-company sales and refinancings depend on master service agreements, fleet records and safety files. In oilfield and mining support services, Dallas places 9th of 48 metros here; Oklahoma City, OK leads.

The firms that share confidential documents in Dallas

Law in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro is mostly a small-firm business: 72 percent of its 3,969 law offices have fewer than five employees, against a median of 70 percent across the metros on these pages.

Deal work in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro draws on 3,512 securities and investment establishments, 1,494 corporate and regional managing offices and 3,666 real estate brokerages.

Together they are 15,904 of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro's 189,739 employer establishments, or about 8 percent.

  • Offices of lawyers (NAICS 541110): 3,969
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services (NAICS 5412): 3,263
  • Offices of certified public accountants (NAICS 541211): 1,217
  • Securities, commodity contracts and like activity (NAICS 523): 3,512
  • Corporate, subsidiary and regional managing offices (NAICS 551114): 1,494
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers (NAICS 531210): 3,666
  • Law offices by size: 2,859 under 5 employees, 548 with 5 to 9, 291 with 10 to 19, 173 with 20 to 49, 98 with 50 or more
  • Employees in law offices, mid-March 2023: about 28,000
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 36,000

How Dallas compares

The Census Bureau estimated the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro's population at 8,344,032 in July 2024, up 705,774 or 9.2 percent on the April 2020 base of 7,638,258.

Measured against the 2023 estimate of 8,166,110, the same year as the business count, Dallas has 48.6 offices of lawyers per 100,000 residents, 39th of the 59 metro areas on these pages against a median of 52.6; the nearest rates are Boise, ID at 48.5 and Detroit, MI at 48.7.

The metro with the closest number of law offices is Atlanta, GA, with 4,050; the metro closest in population, Houston, TX at 7,796,182 residents, has 3,867 law offices and 2,857 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments.

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

  • Residents, July 2024: 8,344,032
  • Residents, April 2020 base: 7,638,258
  • Change since 2020: +705,774 (9.2 percent), 5th of 59
  • Law offices per 100,000 residents: 48.6, 39th of 59
  • Accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll per 100,000 residents: 40.0, 33rd of 59
  • Securities and investment per 100,000 residents: 43.0, 20th of 59
  • Managing offices per 100,000 residents: 18.3, 11th of 59
  • Real estate agents and brokers per 100,000 residents: 44.9, 36th of 59
  • Employees in offices of lawyers: about 28,000
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 36,000

Where Dallas's firms are

The Census definition of the metro takes in 11 counties. Taken one by one, Dallas County had 2,200 offices of lawyers, Tarrant County 864 and Collin County 454.

Dallas County alone holds 55 percent of the metro total, and the eight counties beyond those three hold 451 between them.

Among the Texas metros on these pages, Dallas ranks 1st of 4 by law offices: Dallas 3,969; Houston 3,867; Austin 1,524; San Antonio 1,188.

  • Dallas County: 2,200
  • Tarrant County: 864
  • Collin County: 454
  • Denton County: 213
  • Ellis County: 50
  • Rockwall County: 47
  • Parker County: 43
  • Johnson County: 39
  • Kaufman County: 28
  • Hunt County: 17
  • Wise County: 14

The courts and regulators behind Dallas paperwork

When a Dallas dispute reaches federal court, it goes to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

CPAs practicing in Texas are licensed by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy.

At state level, securities offerings and investment advisers in Texas answer to the Texas State Securities Board, so a Dallas fund raising money or an adviser facing an exam has documents to produce on request.

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

What a ShareAndGo data room does for Dallas deal work

For corporate development and finance teams in Dallas, a ShareAndGo room keeps the file in one place.

  • At the end, the whole room exports as a ZIP for the file, and the audit trail exports on its own.
  • Every view, share, access and change goes into an audit log in which each entry carries a SHA-256 hash of the one before it, so an edit made after the fact can be detected.

Dallas FAQ

How big is Dallas's legal market?
The Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns puts 3,969 offices of lawyers with paid employees in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro, 2,859 of them with fewer than five employees.
How many of the Dallas area's law offices are in Dallas County?
Dallas County holds 2,200 of the metro's 3,969, followed by Tarrant County with 864.
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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