Benchmark Litigation Rankings Scraper

Extract law firm rankings, practice area tiers, and firm profile links from Benchmark Litigation — the specialist litigation ranking covering US states, Canadian provinces, and major international jurisdictions.

What it does

The actor seeds from the Benchmark Litigation homepage, discovers all jurisdiction ranking pages (~120 standard Rankings pages), and for each page extracts every firm in every practice area and tier. Output is a flat table of (jurisdiction × practice area × tier × firm) records.

Each record contains:

• Jurisdiction — US state, country, or region (e.g. "Australia", "California")
• Practice area — e.g. "Class action", "General commercial", "Insurance"
• Tier — e.g. "Highly Recommended", "Recommended", "Other Notable Firms"
• Firm name and profile URL — direct link to the firm's Benchmark Litigation profile
• Firm ID — numeric ID extracted from the profile URL
• List type — "Rankings" for standard jurisdiction pages, "Details" for special lists (40 Under 40, Future Stars, etc.)
• Ranking year — the year the data was scraped
• Scraped timestamp

Use cases

• Litigation finance — map the top-tier litigation firms by jurisdiction for deal sourcing
• Legal recruiting / headhunting — identify leading firms and their rankings for targeted outreach
• Law firm business development — benchmark competitors by practice area and jurisdiction
• Expert witness networks — find firms that handle relevant litigation types
• Market research — compare firm coverage across jurisdictions over time

Output example

{
  "jurisdiction": "Australia",
  "jurisdiction_url": "https://benchmarklitigation.com/Jurisdiction/australia/Rankings/8346",
  "practice_area": "Class action",
  "tier": "Highly Recommended",
  "tier_class": "tier3",
  "firm_name": "Allens",
  "firm_profile_url": "https://benchmarklitigation.com/Firm/allens/Profile/101482#profile",
  "firm_id": "101482",
  "list_type": "Rankings",
  "ranking_year": "2026",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-11T06:00:00.000Z"
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum records to return. Leave blank or set high for a full crawl (~3,000+ records across all jurisdictions).

Coverage

Benchmark Litigation covers:

• All 50 US states + DC
• Canadian provinces
• Major international jurisdictions (Australia, UK, Germany, France, Singapore, etc.)
• Special lists: 40 Under 40 (regional), Future Stars, Top 50 Trial Lawyers, Top Women Litigators, and more

Standard Rankings pages include full firm tier data. Special lists ("Details" pages) load practitioners via JavaScript and are logged but not scraped — firm rankings are the primary dataset.

Notes

• No authentication or proxy required — all ranking pages are publicly accessible
• Memory-efficient: 256 MB is sufficient for a full crawl
• Rate-limited to 5 concurrent requests to be a polite crawler