A total of 1,106 Florida attorneys have volunteered to answer the public’s legal questions through the American Bar Association’s virtual clinic, called ABA Free Legal Answers – the second-highest volunteer rate among all 50 states.

That was one of the data points in a new ABA report, titled “Profile of the Legal Profession 2023.” The number of Florida attorneys who have volunteered to take part in the clinic, which allows lower-income residents to pose civil legal questions to working lawyers, was second only to Illinois, whose participating attorneys now number 1,194.

The ABA launched the Free Legal Answers program in 2016, and since then more than 313,000 questions have been submitted, according to the report. Nationwide, 12,700 volunteer lawyers from 42 states and U.S. territories have taken part in the effort.