Federal obligations in all other legal services (NAICS 541199)

Residual legal services, not offices of lawyers 541110

NAICS 541199 is the “other” bucket inside legal services. Process serving, title work, and related services that contracting officers will not put on 541110 can land here. The $3,236,956,072.85 total is that residual tag, not a bar-membership census. Offices of lawyers stay on 541110.

A law-firm award tagged 541110 will not raise this residual row. A residual legal-services vehicle tagged 541199 will. SpendingVault reports the USAspending award tag, not a state-bar roster and not an FEC employer string such as “attorney.”

6,922 awards on a $3.24 billion obligation stock

Six thousand nine hundred twenty-two awards produced $3,236,956,072.85 in obligations. That action count is moderate. Task orders against legal-support vehicles can stack. The packet does not split title work from other residual legal services. The table shows tagged dollars and the 6,922-award count.

Obligations move with new awards, options, and modifications, including deobligations. Outlays are payments and are not this $3,236,956,072.85 rollup. A multi-year vehicle can show a large commitment while invoices follow performance. The industry page does not convert obligations into a cash calendar.

How USAspending attaches this NAICS

USAspending.gov stores NAICS on contract actions. legal-aid grants and many access-to-justice assistance awards often have no NAICS field. Those dollars will not add to the 6,922 awards. Open program pages for grant-funded activity in this industry.

The label is a Census NAICS classification. It is not a bar-membership census and not campaign-finance text. Cite USAspending.gov via SpendingVault for $3,236,956,072.85 and the 6,922-award count.

What the 541199 table is and is not

The hub lists recipients and awards that share this NAICS tag. A large obligation is a disclosed commitment. It is not a finding that a case was lost, that a filing was late, or that a small business was excluded. SpendingVault does not score outcomes from the dollar total.

Use award IDs, not the $3,236,956,072.85 headline, to separate two companies. Subcontractors may be missing if the prime coded 541199. UEI and name changes are ordinary in the file.

Neighboring 5411 legal codes

Offices of lawyers (541110) are a separate named class. Adding them to $3,236,956,072.85 would mix law-firm offices with this residual. That recode is not this page.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside the 6,922-award count. For a recipient that also holds grants, open the recipient record. This guide stays on contract NAICS 541199 from USAspending.gov. Keep obligations distinct from outlays.

Residual legal support versus law-firm offices

A 541110 law-office award will not raise the 6,922-award count. A residual legal vehicle tagged 541199 sits in $3,236,956,072.85 even if the same prime also holds a 541110 counsel contract. SpendingVault does not merge those rows.

Searchers who want “all federal legal contractors” must add 541110 and will still miss DOJ attorneys on the GS rolls and legal-aid grants. This page does not perform that recode. Cite contract NAICS 541199 only. Do not treat the row as an FEC occupation called attorney. The $3,236,956,072.85 figure remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov. Modifications that end a support task will lower the running total without publishing a case-outcome statistic on this hub. Open award rows for service descriptions. Neighboring 5411 lines stay on their own pages unless those awards were tagged 541199.

A residual legal task tagged 541199 still sits in $3,236,956,072.85; a law-office award tagged 541110 does not. The 6,922 awards remain an action count, not a bar census. Keep public-admin court NAICS on their own pages. Cite USAspending.gov contract NAICS 541199 only. The headline is still obligations, not outlays. Legal-aid grants without NAICS stay outside this contract rollup. Do not add 541110 into $3,236,956,072.85 without documenting a recode. The 6,922 awards stay an action file, not a bar roster. Open award rows for CLIN-level descriptions the NAICS hub does not publish. Neighboring codes stay on their own SpendingVault industry pages unless those awards were tagged 541199. Keep obligations distinct from outlays on this rollup. Assistance awards without NAICS remain outside the contract tag. The packet reports only this NAICS tag from USAspending.gov contract actions, not outlays and not assistance without a NAICS field. Do not treat this industry total as an FEC employer string or as a cash-outlay extract from Treasury.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated under NAICS 541199?

USAspending.gov contract aggregates on SpendingVault show $3,236,956,072.85 in obligations across 6,922 awards tagged all other legal services. The number is obligations, not outlays. Assistance awards without NAICS are omitted. It is not an FEC employer string and not a combined total of neighboring NAICS codes.

Does this include offices of lawyers?

Offices of lawyers are NAICS 541110. Those awards will not add to the $3,236,956,072.85 total unless tagged 541199. The 6,922 awards are the residual all-other-legal-services contract tag from USAspending.gov via SpendingVault. Adding 541110 is a recode you must document on this page.

Does this include FEC attorney donations?

No. This page is USAspending.gov contract NAICS, not FEC employer or occupation strings. ATTORNEY as an FEC label lives on a different site and dataset. The $3,236,956,072.85 figure and 6,922 awards are contract obligations tagged 541199, not campaign receipts on SpendingVault.

Are these figures outlays or obligations?

They are obligations: legally binding commitments on contract actions. Outlays are payments and are not this $3,236,956,072.85 rollup. Modifications can change obligations without a same-day payment. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov contract NAICS for the 6,922 awards, not a Treasury cash extract.