Law-firm weighted NY offices in Costa Mesa, CA
95 registered attorneys
Costa Mesa, CA - local register slice
Rank #19 of 174CA cities by NY office-row count.
Admission years on file: 1968–2025 (median 2013) across 95 dated rows. Longest-tenured listed office peers: Paul Ortega Jolis (1968) , John Berchman Burguieres Jr (1975) , Carl Donald Morgan (1982) .
Costa Mesa thin-register status mix
Currently registered dominates the Costa Mesa book at 77% (73 of 95 rows, mix index 6,071).
New York Law School accounts for 40% of the 10 school-tagged rows here.
Mix index is HHI×10,000 on OCA status shares and on school-named rows. Distinct from the statewide rank line above.
Costa Mesa 2010s admission book
Costa Mesa spreads named employers across 65 firms (mix index 279); Latham & Watkins Llp leads at 8 of 91 named rows.
Judicial dept 3 covers 43% of dept-tagged rows (41 of 4 departments present).
Admission years cluster in the 2010s (40% of 95 dated rows).
Derived from employer, ZIP, judicial-department, and admission-year fields on the same OCA extract - not a market-quality ranking.
Costa Mesa registration renewal calendar
Next-registration months spread wide here - 12 distinct calendar months on file, no single month over 16% (Mar tops the list).
Renewal years span 2025–2028; 2027 leads at 49% (47 rows).
Median admission year 2013; mean tenure ~17.3 years on dated rows.
Next-registration month/year comes from the OCA extract (birthday-linked renewal window) - an administrative calendar, not a quality or discipline ranking.
Costa Mesa law-firm-led employer book
law-firm employers lead this 95-row book at 51% (top named: Latham & Watkins Llp).
4 blank-employer rows sit beside the named book.
Also present: corporate (43).
Roles are heuristic labels on OCA employer strings (government, law firm, education, military, corporate, blank) - not a practice-area or quality ranking.
Register status - Costa Mesa
- Registered
Currently registered
73 office rows
- Due to reregister 9
Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday
9 office rows
- Susp. delinquent 7
Suspended, delinquent
7 office rows
- Delinquent 4
Delinquent
4 office rows
- Susp. registered 2
Suspended, currently registered
2 office rows
What this shows 73 Currently registered of 95.
| Name | Status |
|---|---|
| John Victor Bell | Delinquent |
| Alexander Davis Hawgood | Delinquent |
| Paul Ortega Jolis | Delinquent |
| Ellen Ruth Marshall | Delinquent |
Showing 1–4 of 4 attorneys with status Delinquent
Costa Mesa's nearest office-count peers
Cities nearest Costa Mesa on NY office-row count (95).
Source: NY Office of Court Administration via data.ny.gov - attorney registration counts.
Out-of-state peers for Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa, CA at 95 office rows and 77% Currently registered - matched below on count and active rate (not the nearest-count strip above).
Costa Mesa office-row count vs peers
Costa Mesa active rate vs peers
Counts and active rates come from the NY State Office of Court Administration registration extract; peers are not a market-quality or employment ranking.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.