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  "slug": "us-directory-inventory-july-2026",
  "title": "LawyerLand U.S. Directory Inventory Snapshot — July 2026",
  "description": "A reusable snapshot of LawyerLand's United States directory inventory, separating published listing rows from distinct law firms and populated city-by-practice pages so the quantities cannot be mistaken for one another.",
  "version": "2026.1",
  "published_at": "2026-08-03",
  "modified_at": "2026-08-03",
  "temporal_coverage": "2026-07-30/2026-07-30",
  "measured_quantity": "LawyerLand directory listing rows, distinct listing owners, and populated city-by-practice pages",
  "privacy_class": "public_aggregate",
  "license_name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "keywords": [
    "legal directory",
    "law firms",
    "directory coverage",
    "open data",
    "United States"
  ],
  "methodology": [
    "Query the LawyerLand listing database as of July 30, 2026, using ListingStatus='Published' and Expired=0 for the published inventory population.",
    "Count listing records and distinct listing owners separately because one firm may hold many city-by-practice listing rows.",
    "Count a city-by-practice page as populated only when it is associated with at least one currently published, non-expired listing owner.",
    "Reconcile the populated-page result against an independent directory-page inventory measurement; the recorded eligibility query SHA-1 is 1ed47209d7e010507525dbaffc79ee72beda2719."
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "This measures coverage in the LawyerLand directory, not the number of licensed attorneys, lawyer density, legal need, market share, or access to justice.",
    "Published status does not independently prove that a firm remains active or that its website resolves, so published inventory can overstate active firms.",
    "A listing row is a directory placement, not a law firm. A single firm can hold many listing rows.",
    "The snapshot describes the database on one measurement date and should not be treated as a current count after a newer version is released."
  ],
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    },
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      "type": "number",
      "description": "Measured aggregate value."
    },
    {
      "name": "unit",
      "type": "text",
      "description": "Unit that prevents rows, firms, and pages from being conflated."
    },
    {
      "name": "as_of_date",
      "type": "date",
      "description": "Date on which the directory database was measured."
    },
    {
      "name": "definition",
      "type": "text",
      "description": "Plain-language definition of the metric and its population."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "type": "first_party_measurement",
      "title": "LawyerLand public directory and first-party listing database measurement",
      "url": "https://www.lawyerland.com/",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-30",
      "http_status": 200,
      "checked_at": "2026-08-03"
    }
  ],
  "reviewer": null,
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  "citation": "LawyerLand (2026-08-03). LawyerLand U.S. Directory Inventory Snapshot — July 2026 (Version 2026.1) [Data set]. https://www.lawyerland.com/research/us-directory-inventory-july-2026/",
  "news_triggers": [
    {
      "id": "published-firms-change",
      "label": "Published firm inventory changed materially",
      "previous": 504,
      "current": 504,
      "absolute_threshold": 50,
      "relative_threshold": 0.1
    },
    {
      "id": "populated-pages-change",
      "label": "Populated city-by-practice page count changed materially",
      "previous": 1716,
      "current": 1716,
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      "relative_threshold": 0.1
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  "url": "https://www.lawyerland.com/research/us-directory-inventory-july-2026/"
}