Best Lawyers Scraper — Peer-Reviewed Attorney Directory

Extract verified attorney profiles from BestLawyers.com, the oldest and most trusted peer-reviewed legal ranking in the world. Filter by US state and city, collect contact details, practice areas, education, and recognition history — with optional full-profile enrichment for complete data.

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Features

• Peer-reviewed source: Best Lawyers is the premier attorney ranking, recognized since 1983 — high signal for legal lead generation
• Full profile enrichment: Visit each attorney's profile page to capture phone, address, education, awards, and website (in addition to listing-page basics)
• State + city filtering: Narrow results to any US state (all 50 + DC) and any city within that state
• 150+ practice areas: Covers all major legal specialties — family law, corporate, criminal defense, IP, real estate, and more
• Pagination handled automatically: Crawls all result pages per city without manual intervention
• Max items cap: Set a limit to control run cost and dataset size
• Clean structured output: Consistent field names across listing and profile data, including JSON-LD enrichment from profile pages

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Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
state	string	Yes	US state slug (e.g. california, new-york, texas)
city	string	No	City slug to narrow results (e.g. los-angeles, chicago). Leave blank to scrape all cities in the state.
enrichProfiles	boolean	No	Visit each profile page for phone, address, education, and awards. Default: true.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum profiles to return. 0 = unlimited. Default: 50.

Example input

{
  "state": "california",
  "city": "los-angeles",
  "enrichProfiles": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

To scrape an entire state without city filtering:

{
  "state": "new-york",
  "enrichProfiles": false,
  "maxItems": 500
}

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Output

Each record represents one attorney profile.

{
  "lawyer_name": "Jeff M. Sturman",
  "firm_name": "Greenberg Traurig, LLP",
  "practice_areas": ["Family Law", "Divorce"],
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "state_or_region": "CA",
  "country": "US",
  "recognized_since": "2009",
  "awards": ["Lawyer of the Year, Family Law, Los Angeles, 2022"],
  "phone": "(310) 586-7700",
  "street_address": "1840 Century Park East",
  "postal_code": "90067",
  "education": ["Loyola Law School"],
  "website": "https://www.gtlaw.com",
  "description": "Jeff Sturman has been recognized by Best Lawyers since 2009...",
  "photo_url": "https://cdn.blrankings.com/...",
  "profile_url": "https://www.bestlawyers.com/lawyers/jeff-m-sturman/66872",
  "firm_profile_url": "https://www.bestlawyers.com/firms/greenberg-traurig/..."
}

Output fields

Field	Description
lawyer_name	Full attorney name
firm_name	Law firm name
practice_areas	List of recognized practice areas
city	City where the attorney practices
state_or_region	State abbreviation or region name
country	Country code (always US for US listings)
recognized_since	Year first recognized by Best Lawyers
awards	Lawyer of the Year and other Best Lawyers awards
phone	Office phone number (requires enrichProfiles: true)
street_address	Office street address (requires enrichProfiles: true)
postal_code	ZIP/postal code (requires enrichProfiles: true)
education	Law schools attended (requires enrichProfiles: true)
website	Attorney or firm website (requires enrichProfiles: true)
description	Bio summary from profile page (requires enrichProfiles: true)
photo_url	Headshot image URL
profile_url	Full Best Lawyers profile URL
firm_profile_url	Best Lawyers firm profile URL

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Use Cases

• Legal lead generation: Build targeted lists of vetted attorneys by state, city, and practice area for B2B outreach
• CRM enrichment: Populate Salesforce or HubSpot with peer-reviewed attorney contact data
• Market research: Analyze attorney distribution, firm presence, and specialization across jurisdictions
• Competitive intelligence: Track which firms dominate specific practice areas in target markets
• Legal recruiting: Identify top-ranked attorneys for lateral hire outreach
• Directory aggregation: Combine Best Lawyers data with Martindale, Avvo, and Super Lawyers for comprehensive coverage

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Supported States

All 50 US states plus Washington DC. Use the lowercase slug format matching BestLawyers.com URLs:

alabama, alaska, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, district-of-columbia, florida, georgia, hawaii, idaho, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, montana, nebraska, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, rhode-island, south-carolina, south-dakota, tennessee, texas, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming

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Pricing

Pay per result (PPE model):

• $0.10 per actor start (covers platform compute, charged based on memory allocation)
• $0.001 per attorney profile scraped

A run extracting 1,000 profiles costs approximately $1.10. Profile enrichment adds more requests but no additional charge per record.

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Notes

• enrichProfiles: false is significantly faster — use it when you only need listing-level data (name, firm, practice areas, location, recognition year)
• Leaving city blank crawls the entire state, which can return thousands of profiles for large states like California or New York
• Best Lawyers serves standard HTML — no JavaScript rendering required, making runs fast and reliable
• The actor respects maxItems at the profile level, so total requests may slightly exceed the limit due to in-flight work