Canadian Law List Lawyer & Law Firm Scraper

Scrapes Canadian lawyer and law firm profiles from Canadian Law List, the country's long-standing directory of legal professionals. Returns names, firm affiliations, addresses, postal codes, phones, emails, practice areas, languages, and call-to-bar dates across all 13 provinces and territories — roughly 130,000 lawyers, give or take a few articling students.

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Canadian Law List Scraper Features

• Extracts 20+ fields per lawyer record — name, firm, address, phone, fax, email, website, practice areas, languages, and more.
• Decodes Cloudflare-obfuscated emails inline. The site hides them. The scraper doesn't.
• Filters by Canadian province (Ontario, Quebec, BC, Alberta, all the way down to Nunavut).
• Three output modes: lawyers only, firms only, or both.
• Pure HTML scraping via Cheerio — no browser required, no proxies needed.
• Handles rate limiting automatically so you don't need to babysit the run.

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Who Uses Canadian Law List Data?

• Legal recruiters — source candidates by province, city, or practice area, then do what you do.
• Law firm marketing — build targeted outreach lists for referral networks and cross-border partnerships.
• Cross-border practice intelligence — map Canadian counterparts for US firms extending into Ontario, Quebec, and BC.
• Legal tech vendors — feed verified Canadian lawyer profiles into CRMs, compliance tools, and intake pipelines.
• Market researchers — analyze the Canadian legal landscape across provinces, practice areas, and firm sizes.

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How Canadian Law List Scraper Works

1. Pick one or more letters from the alphabetical firm index (A–Z, plus digits 1–9). One letter is usually enough for a first run; the full alphabet covers the whole directory.
2. Select the provinces you care about. Leave it empty to include all of Canada.
3. Choose a scrape mode — lawyers, firms, or both. Lawyers mode crawls firm pages to discover individual profiles. Firms mode outputs one record per firm and runs faster.
4. Set maxItems to cap output, or 0 for no limit. The scraper stops as soon as the target is hit.

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Input

{
  "letters": ["A"],
  "provinces": ["Ontario"],
  "scrapeMode": "lawyers",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
letters	array of strings	["A"]	Letters or digits from the alphabetical firm index: A–Z, 1–9. Use ["A","B",...,"Z"] for full coverage.
provinces	array of strings	["Ontario"]	Province names to include (case-insensitive substring match). Leave empty to include all. Examples: Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta.
scrapeMode	string	"lawyers"	lawyers visits firm pages then individual lawyer profiles (richer data). firms outputs one record per law firm (faster). both outputs both.
maxItems	integer	50	Maximum records to output. Set to 0 for unlimited.

Scrape Firms Only (faster)

{
  "letters": ["A", "B", "C"],
  "provinces": ["Ontario", "Quebec"],
  "scrapeMode": "firms",
  "maxItems": 500
}

All Canada, No Filter

{
  "letters": ["A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z"],
  "provinces": [],
  "scrapeMode": "lawyers",
  "maxItems": 0
}

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Canadian Law List Scraper Output Fields

Lawyer Record

{
  "record_type": "lawyer",
  "lawyer_name": "Charles A. Boulakia",
  "first_name": "Charles A.",
  "last_name": "Boulakia",
  "job_title": "Partner",
  "firm_name": "Ridout & Maybee LLP",
  "street_address": "5th Flr. 250 University Ave.",
  "city": "Toronto",
  "province": "Ontario",
  "postal_code": "M5H 3E5",
  "phone": "416-868-1482 Ext: 283",
  "fax": "416-362-0823",
  "email": "cboulakia@ridoutmaybee.com",
  "website": "http://www.ridoutmaybee.com",
  "practice_areas": ["Patents", "Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Law", "Advertising & Marketing Law"],
  "languages": ["English", "French"],
  "call_to_bar_year": "2002",
  "call_to_bar_province": "ON",
  "education": "B.Sc. McGill; M.Sc. McGill; LL.B./M.B.A. UWO",
  "memberships": "IPIC; AIPPI; LES Toronto Chapter",
  "profile_summary": "Partner focused on IP law...",
  "source_url": "https://www.canadianlawlist.com/listingdetail/contact/charles-a-boulakia-599052/",
  "scraped_at": "2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Firm Record

{
  "record_type": "firm",
  "firm_name": "Aarbo Fuldauer LLP",
  "street_address": "3rd Flr. 1131 Kensington Rd. N.W.",
  "city": "Calgary",
  "province": "Alberta",
  "postal_code": "T2N 3P4",
  "phone": "403-571-5120",
  "fax": "403-571-5134",
  "email": "info@aarbofuldauer.com",
  "website": "www.aarbofuldauer.com",
  "practice_areas": [],
  "profile_summary": "",
  "source_url": "https://www.canadianlawlist.com/listingdetail/company/aarbo-fuldauer-llp-685303/",
  "scraped_at": "2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
record_type	string	lawyer or firm.
lawyer_name	string	Full lawyer name (empty for firm records).
first_name	string	Lawyer first name, parsed from full name. Handles middle initials.
last_name	string	Lawyer last name.
job_title	string	Title at the firm — e.g., Partner, Associate, Lawyer.
firm_name	string	Law firm or organization name.
street_address	string	Street address, including floor/suite where listed.
city	string	City.
province	string	Canadian province or territory (full name, e.g., Ontario, Québec).
postal_code	string	Canadian postal code.
phone	string	Office phone, sometimes with extension.
fax	string	Fax number. Yes, lawyers still use fax.
email	string	Contact email, decoded from Cloudflare obfuscation.
website	string	Firm or lawyer website URL.
practice_areas	array of strings	Areas of practice. Only populated for enhanced listings.
languages	array of strings	Languages spoken. Only populated for enhanced listings.
call_to_bar_year	string	Year called to the bar (e.g., 2002). Lawyers only.
call_to_bar_province	string	Two-letter province code of bar admission (e.g., ON). Lawyers only.
education	string	Degrees and credentials, semicolon-separated. Enhanced listings only.
memberships	string	Professional memberships and associations. Enhanced listings only.
profile_summary	string	Bio or firm profile text when present.
source_url	string	Canonical Canadian Law List URL for this profile.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 timestamp when the record was extracted.

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FAQ

How do I scrape Canadianlawlist.com?

Canadian Law List Scraper reads the site's public alphabetical firm index (/Firms/A through /Firms/Z, plus digit pages). Pick a letter, optionally filter by province, and let it run. No login, no API key, no proxies.

How much does Canadian Law List Scraper cost?

Canadian Law List Scraper runs on pay-per-event pricing. $0.10 per actor start, $0.001 per record. A 500-record run costs about $0.60.

Can I filter by province?

Canadian Law List Scraper accepts a provinces array and drops any lawyer or firm whose province doesn't match. Leave the array empty to include all 13 provinces and territories.

What's the difference between lawyers, firms, and both mode?

Canadian Law List Scraper's lawyers mode crawls firm pages to discover individual lawyers, then visits each profile for richer data — call-to-bar date, practice areas, languages, job title. firms mode outputs one record per firm (name, address, phone) and runs faster because it skips the profile pages. both emits both record types and marks them with record_type.

Why are practice_areas and languages sometimes empty?

Canadian Law List Scraper returns whatever the site publishes. Enhanced premium listings have full profile tables with practice areas, languages, education, and memberships. Basic free listings don't — the site only shows the name and contact details. The scraper faithfully reflects what's there.

Does Canadian Law List Scraper need proxies?

Canadian Law List Scraper runs without proxies. It scrapes public HTML at moderate concurrency with built-in rate-limit backoff.

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Need More Features?

Need custom fields, a different Canadian legal source, or a specific provincial law society? File an issue or get in touch.

Why Use Canadian Law List Scraper?

• Affordable — pay-per-event pricing means you pay for records, not compute time.
• Complete Canadian coverage — 13 provinces, ~130k lawyers, one directory, all scraped with the same schema. Which is more than you can say for stitching together provincial bar sites.
• Clean structured output — JSON records with consistent field names, decoded emails, and parsed postal codes. Less cleanup, more analysis.