Data for: Which States Most Effectively Discipline Attorneys? New Measures of State Corruption Within the United States

The American Bar Association’s annual Survey on Lawyer Discipline (SOLD) reports complaints and charges regarding lawyer misconduct, the caseload per disciplinary attorney, and each state’s budget for attorney discipline. We develop five measures of attorney discipline which are:
1. COMPLAINTS – the percent of attorneys in the state who receive complaints from the public
2. CHARGED – the percent of attorneys that are charged with some form of misconduct during the year
3. CHARGED/ COMPLAINTS – the percent of the attorneys receiving COMPLAINTS that are eventually CHARGED with malpractice
4. BUDGET (in dollars) – the state’s annual budget for implementing attorney discipline relative to the number of attorneys
5. CASELOAD – the number of AD cases per state disciplinary attorney per year

In our study entitled 'Attorney Discipline, the Quality of Legal Systems and Economic Growth within the United States' we examine the relation between attorney discipline and state economic growth. Here, we include the panel dataset of the five attorney discipline measures used in that study 'Attorney Discipline Data 2000-2017'.