Avvo Lawyer Scraper - Attorney Leads & Contacts

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📌 Overview

The Avvo Lawyer Scraper turns Avvo's attorney directory into structured B2B legal leads. Give it a practice area (divorce, personal injury, criminal defense, immigration, bankruptcy…) and a US state or city, and it walks the full paginated results — 20 attorneys per page, 100+ pages, thousands of lawyers — returning each as a clean record.

Flip on Fetch full profile details to open each attorney's page and pull the complete professional record: bar license (jurisdiction, recognizing bar, admission date), Avvo rating, review count, awards, languages spoken, law school and a full bio.

It needs no login, no cookies and no API key — it reads only public directory data through US residential proxies. With no headless browser it's a fast, low-cost way to assemble large attorney datasets.

✅ Set maxResults: 0 to pull an entire practice-area + state directory in a single run.

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✨ Features

	Feature	Description
📦	Thousands of leads	Paginates the full search (20/page, 100+ pages) for any practice area + state.
🏢	Firm & contact data	Attorney name, law firm, firm website, phone and full mailing address.
🎓	Bar license details	Jurisdiction, recognizing bar association and admission date per license.
⭐	Ratings & reviews	Avvo rating (1–5) and review count to qualify and prioritize leads.
🗺️	Geo & practice areas	Latitude/longitude plus every practice area and language the attorney lists.
🏆	Awards & bio	Awards, law school and the attorney's full biography.
⚡	No browser	Lightweight HTTP + JSON-LD parsing — fast and cheap at scale.
🛡️	Login-free & safe	Reads public data over US residential proxies — no account, no ban risk.
📤	Any format	Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or pull via API & webhooks.

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🎯 Who it's for

• Legal-tech & SaaS sales — build targeted outreach lists of attorneys by specialty and state.
• Marketing & lead-gen agencies — supply law firms and legal vendors with qualified prospects.
• Recruiters & legal staffing — source attorneys by practice area, location and bar admission.
• Market researchers — map the competitive landscape of any practice area across the US.

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🧾 Input

Field	Type	Description
practiceArea	string	Practice area slug (divorce, personal-injury, criminal-defense, immigration…).
location	string	US state 2-letter code (ny, ca, tx) or a city slug.
startUrls	array	Advanced. Avvo search or profile URLs. Overrides Practice area + Location.
fetchProfileDetails	boolean	true = open each profile for the full record (license, rating, awards, bio). false = cheap 20/page search records. Default false.
maxResults	integer	Max attorneys to collect. 0 = unlimited. Default 1000.
proxyConfiguration	object	US RESIDENTIAL proxy (required — Avvo is Cloudflare-fronted). Pre-configured for you.

Example input

{
  "practiceArea": "personal-injury",
  "location": "ca",
  "fetchProfileDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 2000
}

Or drive it with explicit URLs:

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.avvo.com/divorce-lawyer/ny.html",
    "https://www.avvo.com/immigration-lawyer/tx.html"
  ],
  "fetchProfileDetails": false,
  "maxResults": 5000
}

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📦 Output

Each attorney is saved as one structured record (full record shown — fetchProfileDetails: true):

{
  "name": "Jane A. Attorney",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/10001-ny-jane-attorney-1234567.html",
  "firm": "Attorney & Partners LLP",
  "website": "https://www.attorneypartners.com",
  "phone": "(212) 555-0123",
  "address": { "street": "123 Main St, Suite 400", "city": "New York", "state": "NY", "zip": "10001" },
  "lat": 40.7128,
  "lng": -74.006,
  "practiceAreas": ["Divorce", "Family", "Child Custody"],
  "languages": ["English", "Spanish"],
  "licenses": [
    { "state": "New York", "bar": "New York State Bar", "admissionDate": "2009" }
  ],
  "rating": 9.5,
  "reviewCount": 42,
  "awards": ["Avvo Clients' Choice 2024"],
  "lawSchool": "Columbia Law School",
  "bio": "Jane is a family-law attorney with 15 years of experience...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📖 Output field reference

Field	Description
name / profileUrl	Attorney name and Avvo profile link
firm / website	Law firm name and firm website (from sameAs)
phone / address	Phone and full mailing address (street, city, state, zip)
lat / lng	Geo coordinates
practiceAreas	Practice areas the attorney lists (knowsAbout)
languages	Languages spoken (knowsLanguage)
licenses	Bar licenses — state (jurisdiction), bar (recognizing bar), admissionDate
rating / reviewCount	Avvo rating (1–5) and number of reviews
awards	Recognitions and awards
lawSchool / bio	Law school and full biography

With fetchProfileDetails: false you get the search-level subset (name, profile, phone, address, practice areas, rating) — much faster and cheaper for volume.

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⚙️ How it works

1. You provide a practice area + US state (or explicit Start URLs).
2. The actor builds the Avvo search URL and paginates it — 20 attorneys per page — until results run out.
3. Each result is parsed from the page's JSON-LD structured data into a clean record.
4. If Fetch full profile details is on, each profile page is opened for the complete record.
5. Results stream to the dataset, de-duplicated, ready to export.

No login, no cookies, no API keys — and no account is ever used or risked.

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❓ FAQ

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🔗 Works great with

• 📧 Email Finder & Verifier — enrich attorney firm websites with contact emails.
• 🗺️ B2B Lead Scraper — pair with location-based business leads for full coverage.

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📝 Changelog

2026-06-05

• 🛡️ Reliability fix: results are no longer dropped by strict output validation — runs now complete cleanly even at high volume (thousands of results).
• ⚡ Stability & performance hardening; fresh rebuild.

2026-06-04

• Verified live & refreshed build — reliability/maintenance pass.