Best Lawyers Scraper — Peer-Reviewed Attorney Directory

Scrapes attorney profiles from BestLawyers.com, the oldest peer-reviewed legal ranking. Returns names, firms, practice areas, contact details, education, and awards as clean JSON. Filter by US state and city.

Best Lawyers has ranked attorneys by peer review since 1981. Inclusion is the kind of credential firms put on their homepage. This scraper turns that directory into structured data — point it at a state, optionally narrow to a city, and it pulls every recognized lawyer with the fields that matter for legal lead generation and competitive research.

Listing pages give you name, firm, practice areas, location, and recognition year. Flip on profile enrichment and it visits each lawyer's page for phone, address, education, awards, and website.

What You Can Do With Best Lawyers Data

• Build a legal lead list — recognized attorneys by state, city, and practice area, with phone and address.
• Map a practice area — pull every "Lawyer of the Year" and recognized attorney in family law, personal injury, M&A, or any of 150+ areas.
• Research a firm — group lawyers by firm to size up a competitor's bench.
• Enrich a CRM — match names to firms, education, and contact details.
• Track recognition — recognized_since and the awards list show who's been ranked and for how long.

Who Uses This

Legal recruiters and headhunters, law firm marketers, legal-tech products, litigation-funding analysts, and B2B sales teams selling into the legal vertical. If your buyer is a ranked attorney, this is the list.

Input

Field	What it does
state	US state to search (required) — all 50 states plus DC.
city	City slug to narrow results (e.g. los-angeles, chicago). Optional; empty crawls the whole state.
enrichProfiles	Visit each profile page for phone, address, education, awards, and website. On by default.
maxItems	Cap the profile count. 0 means unlimited.

Output

Field	Description
lawyer_name	Attorney full name.
firm_name	Law firm name.
practice_areas	Areas the lawyer is recognized in.
city / state_or_region / country	Where they practice.
recognized_since	Year first recognized by Best Lawyers.
awards	Best Lawyers awards, including Lawyer of the Year.
phone / street_address / postal_code	Office contact details (enriched).
education	Law schools attended (enriched).
website	Attorney or firm website (enriched).
description	Bio summary from the profile.
photo_url	Headshot URL.
profile_url / firm_profile_url	Links back to the Best Lawyers pages.

Three dataset views ship with it — Lawyer Overview, Contact Details, and Full Profile — so you can export just what you need.

How It Works

1. Pick a state, and optionally a city and practice scope.
2. The scraper walks the Best Lawyers listing pages and collects every recognized attorney.
3. With enrichment on, it visits each profile for the full contact and credential record.
4. Results land in your dataset — export as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

FAQ

How do I scrape Best Lawyers? Set a state (and optionally a city), run the actor, and it returns recognized attorney profiles with firm, practice areas, and contact details. No login required.

Can I get attorney phone numbers and addresses? Yes — keep enrichProfiles on. The scraper visits each profile page for phone, street address, postal code, education, and website.

How do I find Lawyer of the Year recognitions? The awards field carries every Best Lawyers award on a profile, including Lawyer of the Year, alongside recognized_since.

Can I filter by practice area? Best Lawyers organizes listings by location; the scraper returns each lawyer's full practice_areas list so you can filter the output to family law, personal injury, corporate, or any area you need.

Need More Features?

Need a different state structure, extra fields, or another legal directory scraped? File an issue or get in touch.