NAICS 541110 offices of lawyers obligations

Law-office contracts, not a litigation scoreboard

NAICS 541110 is offices of lawyers. Contracting officers assign it when the principal purpose is legal services from a law office — counsel, representation, and related professional work as the Census class groups them. This $1,716,387,583.97 is that professional-services tag. It is not a tally of lawsuits filed, not a verdict total, and not the Department of Justice operating budget.

Two thousand two hundred two awards produced a mean of about $780,000. Federal legal vehicles can be multi-year retainers, specialized counsel, and large task-order contracts, which pulls the mean above an hourly invoice for a single deposition. The packet does not count docket numbers, hours billed, or case outcomes.

Other legal services (a residual 541 legal class) is not this offices-of-lawyers code. A title-search or process-serving contract tagged elsewhere does not sit in $1.7 billion.

Retainers, options, and payment timing

Law-office contracts often obligate estimated professional fees and pay as work is invoiced. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.7 billion as fees already billed would overstate cash on open vehicles.

The 2,202-award count is not a case count. USAspending may still group multiple task orders into awards. Dividing dollars by awards is not a fee per lawsuit.

Nearby legal and professional codes

Offices of lawyers are a 541 professional-services tag. Broader legal-support or consulting classes are different Census families. Those hubs are not interchangeable with $1,716,387,583.97.

Assistance that funds legal-aid programs often lacks NAICS and does not enter this total. Salaried agency attorneys are not 541110 contracts. Work tagged to a management-consulting NAICS will not appear here. Conflict counsel, specialized litigation support, and ordinary advisory retainers can share 541110 when that is the principal class. The $1,716,387,583.97 total does not say which of those shapes dominates the 2,202 awards.

How to use the 541110 hub

Read $1.7 billion and 2,202 awards as the offices-of-lawyers contract tag, then open the offices of lawyers industry page for award-level fields. Rank 541 professional-services codes on the all-industries index without converting them into a court-caseload estimate.

This guide does not add win-loss records because they are not in the facts object. Title work or process serving tagged to a residual legal-support code is a different hub. Quote obligations, not outlays, and keep court outcomes out of the sentence because they are not in the facts object.

Classification limits

In-house government lawyers are not 541110 contracts. Legal work tagged to a broader consulting or residual legal NAICS will not appear here. SpendingVault reports the tagged law-office sum.

Extract updates will move $1,716,387,583.97 and 2,202 with USAspending.

How to read a law-office obligation book

Federal legal support is often bought as IDIQ or blanket vehicles: a contracting office estimates counsel needs, obligates a ceiling or a task-order value, and invoices arrive as work is done. That is why $1,716,387,583.97 can sit on only 2,202 awards while the mean reaches about $780,000. A small deposition invoice and a multi-year specialized-counsel vehicle can share the same NAICS tag. The packet does not split those shapes. Treating the mean as a typical hourly bill would hide that structure.

Agency pages answer which department awarded the work. This industry hub answers which Census class the officer selected. In-house counsel payroll never appears here. Court judgments and criminal fines are not 541110 contracts. Residual legal-support NAICS codes, when used, live on other hubs. Open the offices of lawyers industry page for award-level fields behind the $1.7 billion, then rank 541 professional-services codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. Extract refreshes will move both the dollars and the 2,202-award count. A searcher asking how much the federal government spent on outside counsel should still separate this industry tag from agency legal-operations budgets. The $1,716,387,583.97 figure answers the NAICS 541110 question only. The 2,202-award count answers how many award identifiers carried that tag in the extract, not how many lawsuits existed. Open the offices of lawyers industry page, then compare other 541 professional-services codes on the all-industries index. Keep the language to obligations recorded in USAspending.gov, and do not convert the mean of about $780,000 into a typical hourly rate.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 541110?

Offices of lawyers contracts in USAspending show $1,716,387,583.97 in obligations across 2,202 awards. That is a law-office professional-services tag, not court judgments and not agency counsel payroll. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without a NAICS code is excluded from this industry extract.

What is the average offices-of-lawyers award?

Dividing $1,716,387,583.97 by 2,202 awards yields about $780,000. That mean often reflects multi-year counsel vehicles rather than a single hourly invoice. It is not a fee per case and not a docket average. The packet does not publish a median, an hours-billed total, or a count of matters.

Does this include Department of Justice operating costs?

Only contract actions tagged 541110. Agency operations and salaried attorneys are not this industry total. Other legal-support NAICS codes are different Census classes. This $1.7 billion is the offices-of-lawyers tag. Use agency pages for awarding-agency views of legal operations and this hub for the industry tag.

Is NAICS 541110 the same as other legal services?

No. Offices of lawyers are NAICS 541110. Residual legal-support classes are separate codes with their own hubs. The two totals are not interchangeable. Mixed counsel-and-support contracts follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. Use 541110 for law offices as tagged in this USAspending extract.