What does 'practice area distribution' mean here?

Each state bar publishes self-identified practice areas on the attorney's public profile. The distribution reflects how active attorneys in the four covered states categorize their own practice - not case counts, not revenue.

Which practice area has the most attorneys?

Across the BarSourced four-state set (CA, FL, GA, TX), personal injury, criminal defense, and family law consistently rank as the largest practice-area buckets. Personal injury leads because it is a contingency-fee practice with high per-firm attorney count.

How is this data compiled?

Directly from the four state bar directories of record. We pull the public practice-area field from every active member's profile, deduplicate, and aggregate. The figure refreshes weekly as the underlying catalog refreshes.

Can I cite these numbers?

Yes. Attribute to BarSourced with a link back to /report/attorney-distribution-by-practice-area-2026. Figures update weekly; the page timestamp reflects the latest pull.

Annual report

2026 US attorney distribution by practice area

Name: 2026 US attorney distribution by practice area (CA, FL, GA, TX)
Creator: BarSourced

California · Florida · Georgia · Texas · refreshed August 2026

Pie chart segmented by practice area with one slice highlighted

Distribution

Attorneys by practice area (four-state total)

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Buyer signal

What the mix means for vendor targeting

Personal injury is the deepest-pocket segment. Contingency economics drive aggressive vendor spend on medical-records retrieval, case-management, expert witnesses, and lead-gen.
Estate planning is undersold and undersaturated. Trust software, life-insurance carriers, and probate-administration platforms all sell well into this segment, but the vendor competition is a fraction of the PI channel.
Family law and criminal defense skew solo/small. Short decision cycles, price sensitivity, high receptivity to peer-referenced pitches.
Real estate over-indexes in closing states. Florida and Georgia carry a disproportionate share of real-estate-tagged attorneys.

Sub-lists

Reach one practice area at a time

State breakdown

Deeper cuts by state

Methodology

How the distribution is built

Practice-area rows are aggregated from the four state bar directories of record. Every active member's self-identified primary and secondary practice areas count into the total. Because attorneys can list more than one area, the sum of practice-area rows exceeds the unique attorney count. We show shares against the tagged total, not against the unique population.

For the deeper methodology governing the catalog see the methodology page.

Frequently asked questions

What does 'practice area distribution' mean here?: Each state bar publishes self-identified practice areas on the attorney's public profile. The distribution reflects how active attorneys in the four covered states categorize their own practice - not case counts, not revenue.
Which practice area has the most attorneys?: Across the BarSourced four-state set (CA, FL, GA, TX), personal injury, criminal defense, and family law consistently rank as the largest practice-area buckets. Personal injury leads because it is a contingency-fee practice with high per-firm attorney count.
How is this data compiled?: Directly from the four state bar directories of record. We pull the public practice-area field from every active member's profile, deduplicate, and aggregate. The figure refreshes weekly as the underlying catalog refreshes.
Can I cite these numbers?: Yes. Attribute to BarSourced with a link back to /report/attorney-distribution-by-practice-area-2026. Figures update weekly; the page timestamp reflects the latest pull.

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Cite this report as: BarSourced, "2026 US Attorney Distribution by Practice Area," updated August 2026.