The SIC code for law firms is 8111, "Legal Services." It covers attorney-led legal practices, including general practice, personal injury, family law, criminal defense, corporate law, estate planning, and legal aid. Non-attorney title abstract offices and standalone paralegal services use other SIC codes.
Every business in our file is tagged with its SIC code. Pick a state to see how many SIC 8111 law firm records are available with a phone number.
SIC 8111 has a direct 2022 NAICS equivalent for attorney-led law offices: 541110, Offices of Lawyers. SIC does not separate firms by practice area. The other rows below are nearby classifications people sometimes confuse with law firms.
| SIC | SIC description | NAICS | NAICS description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8111 | Legal Services | 541110 | Offices of Lawyers |
| 6541 | Title Abstract Offices | 541191 | Title Abstract and Settlement Offices |
| 7389 | Business Services, Not Elsewhere Classified | 541199 | All Other Legal Services |
MCC 8111 is a payment-processing category for attorneys and legal services, so it happens to describe a similar business. NAICS 8111, however, is the four-digit industry group for Automotive Repair and Maintenance. SIC 8111 is the Standard Industrial Classification code for Legal Services.
These legal practice types all use the same four-digit SIC code and the same 2022 NAICS code for offices of lawyers. SIC and NAICS do not separate law firms by practice area.
Law offices handling a mix of legal matters for individuals or businesses. The firm's practice mix does not change the SIC or NAICS classification.
Attorney offices representing clients in injury, accident, negligence, and related civil claims remain classified under SIC 8111.
Divorce, custody, probate, wills, trusts, and estate planning practices use SIC 8111 when the establishment is an attorney-led law office.
Lawyers representing clients in criminal matters classify under the same SIC and NAICS codes as other law offices.
Business law, tax law, patent law, and other specialized attorney practices remain within SIC 8111 and NAICS 541110.
Title abstract offices, standalone paralegal services, process servers, and similar non-attorney operations may fall under SIC 6541 or 7389 instead of SIC 8111.
Most people searching for the law firm SIC code are filling out a form or building a prospect list. If it is the second one, SIC 8111 is the starting filter and geography, employee count, and revenue make the list more useful.
In our portal, SIC 8111 narrows the business file to legal services. From there you can layer on employee count, annual revenue, city, county, zip, or area code, and contact name where available. The output is a CSV with the business name, phone number, address, SIC code, and the demographic fields you selected, ready to load into a dialer or CRM.
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Law firms generally turn over more slowly than high-churn categories such as restaurants, but offices still move, merge, add or lose partners, and change phone numbers. Our US business data is refreshed quarterly, Canada is refreshed annually, and we estimate roughly 90% accuracy on business records. For regulatory or outreach questions, confirm your own compliance requirements with legal counsel.
These are the available SIC 8111 legal-services records with a phone number, broken out by state. You can narrow further by city, county, zip, employee count, or revenue inside the portal. New Jersey data is not available.
| State | Code | Law firms | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | AL | 5,718 | 1.6% |
| Alaska | AK | 767 | 0.2% |
| Arizona | AZ | 7,867 | 2.2% |
| Arkansas | AR | 2,522 | 0.7% |
| California | CA | 50,568 | 13.8% |
| Colorado | CO | 7,110 | 1.9% |
| Connecticut | CT | 5,353 | 1.5% |
| Delaware | DE | 1,079 | 0.3% |
| District of Columbia | DC | 4,395 | 1.2% |
| Florida | FL | 29,311 | 8.0% |
| Georgia | GA | 12,378 | 3.4% |
| Hawaii | HI | 1,102 | 0.3% |
| Idaho | ID | 1,331 | 0.4% |
| Illinois | IL | 15,344 | 4.2% |
| Indiana | IN | 5,155 | 1.4% |
| Iowa | IA | 2,554 | 0.7% |
| Kansas | KS | 2,713 | 0.7% |
| Kentucky | KY | 4,334 | 1.2% |
| Louisiana | LA | 6,747 | 1.8% |
| Maine | ME | 1,180 | 0.3% |
| Maryland | MD | 7,009 | 1.9% |
| Massachusetts | MA | 11,625 | 3.2% |
| Michigan | MI | 9,566 | 2.6% |
| Minnesota | MN | 5,378 | 1.5% |
| Mississippi | MS | 2,971 | 0.8% |
| Missouri | MO | 6,341 | 1.7% |
| Montana | MT | 1,219 | 0.3% |
| Nebraska | NE | 1,603 | 0.4% |
| Nevada | NV | 3,072 | 0.8% |
| New Hampshire | NH | 1,515 | 0.4% |
| New Jersey ⓘ | NJ | - | - |
| New Mexico | NM | 2,179 | 0.6% |
| New York | NY | 29,877 | 8.2% |
| North Carolina | NC | 8,436 | 2.3% |
| North Dakota | ND | 541 | 0.1% |
| Ohio | OH | 11,808 | 3.2% |
| Oklahoma | OK | 4,379 | 1.2% |
| Oregon | OR | 4,061 | 1.1% |
| Pennsylvania | PA | 14,235 | 3.9% |
| Puerto Rico | PR | 191 | 0.1% |
| Rhode Island | RI | 1,495 | 0.4% |
| South Carolina | SC | 5,056 | 1.4% |
| South Dakota | SD | 631 | 0.2% |
| Tennessee | TN | 5,835 | 1.6% |
| Texas | TX | 30,507 | 8.4% |
| Utah | UT | 2,456 | 0.7% |
| Vermont | VT | 749 | 0.2% |
| Virginia | VA | 8,889 | 2.4% |
| Washington | WA | 9,231 | 2.5% |
| West Virginia | WV | 1,833 | 0.5% |
| Wisconsin | WI | 4,304 | 1.2% |
| Wyoming | WY | 676 | 0.2% |
| Available US total | US | 365,196 | 100% |
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