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'.

美国律师协会（American Bar Association）的年度律师惩戒调查（Survey on Lawyer Discipline, SOLD）会披露与律师不当行为相关的投诉与指控、每位惩戒律师的办案量，以及各州律师惩戒工作的年度预算。我们构建了五项律师惩戒相关衡量指标，具体如下：1. 投诉率（COMPLAINTS）：该州收到公众投诉的律师占总律师数的比例；2. 指控率（CHARGED）：年度内因各类不当行为被正式指控的律师占总律师数的比例；3. 投诉转指控率（CHARGED/COMPLAINTS）：收到公众投诉后最终因执业过失遭到指控的律师占收到投诉律师总数的比例；4. 人均惩戒预算（BUDGET，单位：美元）：该州年度律师惩戒工作预算与该州律师总数的比值；5. 办案量（CASELOAD）：每位州级惩戒律师年度平均处理的AD案件数。在我们题为《美国律师惩戒、司法体系质量与经济增长》的研究中，我们考察了律师惩戒与州级经济增长之间的关联。本数据集即为该研究中所使用的2000-2017年律师惩戒面板数据集——《律师惩戒数据2000-2017》（Attorney Discipline Data 2000-2017）。