FindLaw.com Lawyer Directory Scraper

Turn FindLaw.com into a structured US law-firm dataset. Scrape every law firm + attorney profile from any FindLaw listing URL — name, legal name, full street address with real lat/long coordinates, multiple offices, telephone, practice areas, employees (attorneys at the firm with their own profile URLs), website, LinkedIn, price range, description — straight out of the page. JSON or CSV out, no compute charge per run, just per result.

How it works

✨ Why use this scraper?

Building a US legal-marketing list? Mapping firm density by practice area + state? Need a clean firm dataset with all branch offices and named attorneys?

• 🎯 Three ways to start. Pick practice areas + US states + optional cities from the dropdowns (multi-select cartesian product), paste any FindLaw URL — listings or direct profile pages — or combine both. URLs always win.
• 🏢 Firm-centric data shape. One row per firm/profile with name, legalName, full address, geo coordinates, multiple offices (locations[]), and the entire roster of attorneys at the firm (employees[]) with their individual FindLaw profile URLs.
• 📍 Real coordinates, not just zip codes. Each row carries coordinates.latitude + coordinates.longitude parsed straight from the JSON-LD geo block — drop firms onto a map without a geocoding step.
• 🌐 website and linkedin separated. First non-social URL goes to website, any LinkedIn URL goes to linkedin — the full sameAs[] array is preserved too.
• 🏛 All branch offices captured. locations[] contains every office the firm lists — main + satellites — each with its own street address, postal code, and phone number.
• 👥 Attorneys nested. employees[] lists each attorney at the firm with their name, jobTitle, image, and individual FindLaw profileUrl — useful as a hop list if you also want per-attorney data.
• ⚡ Two output modes. Default fetches each firm's detail page for the full ~25-field profile. Lite mode skips per-firm fetches entirely — one listing fetch yields ~30 rows with name + phone + city/state. ~30× faster, ~30× cheaper.
• 🛡 Cloudflare-aware, zero browser automation. Three-stack TLS race (impit + got-scraping + curl-impersonate Chrome 131) handles the anti-bot layer without spinning up a headless Chromium.
• 📤 Clean exports. One row per firm. No padding rows, no duplicate office rows. JSON + CSV exported automatically.

🎯 Use cases

Team	What they build
Legal marketing / SaaS GTM	Outbound lists for vendors selling to small/mid law firms — by state, city, and practice area
Legal-tech research	Firm-density maps, average roster size, branch-office distribution per metro
Lead-gen / referral networks	Build local firm directories or referral matchmaking by practice area + city
Competitive intelligence	Competitor benchmarking — staffing levels, branch-office expansion, practice-area coverage
Journalists / academic research	Studies on legal-services access by region
Existing platforms enriching their data	Patching firm records with verified phone, full address, geo coords, named attorneys, and website

📥 Supported inputs

The scraper accepts inputs in two mutually-exclusive modes — URLs take strict precedence over filters:

⚠️ Precedence rule. If startUrls has any non-empty entry, the practice-area / state / city dropdowns are completely ignored. To use the dropdowns, leave startUrls empty.

Mode 1 — Paste FindLaw URLs (highest priority)

Drop one or more lawyers.findlaw.com URLs into startUrls. Each URL is classified automatically:

URL pattern	Behaviour
https://lawyers.findlaw.com/{practice-area}/{state}/{city}/	Listing — extracts firm links + walks pagination
https://lawyers.findlaw.com/{practice-area}/{state}/	Listing (state-level)
https://lawyers.findlaw.com/{practice-area}/	Listing (national)
https://lawyers.findlaw.com/{state}/	Listing (browse by state)
https://lawyers.findlaw.com/{state}/{city}/{firm-slug}-{base64-id}/	Firm detail — routed straight to the profile parser

Easiest workflow: apply your filters on lawyers.findlaw.com in the browser, copy the URL from the address bar, paste into startUrls.

Mode 2 — Practice area + US state (+ optional city) dropdowns

All three dropdowns are multi-select. The scraper expands the cartesian product:

• Practice areas — 31 options (family-law, criminal-law, personal-injury-plaintiff, real-estate-law, etc.)
• U.S. states — all 50 states + DC
• Cities (optional) — narrow to specific cities (e.g. los-angeles, san-francisco)

{family-law, divorce} × {ca, ny} × {los-angeles, new-york}
  → 8 listing URLs (cartesian product)

Edge cases:

• States selected, no practice area → state-level browse listings (one per state).
• Practice area(s) selected, no states → national listings (one per practice area).
• No filters at all → falls back to a default LA family-law listing.

Not supported:

• FindLaw legal articles, Q&A, and the Marketing Solutions site (the scraper targets lawyers.findlaw.com profiles only)
• Hosts outside lawyers.findlaw.com

🔄 How it works

1. Resolve start URLs. Synthesize listing URLs from the practice-area + state + city dropdowns (cartesian product) — or use startUrls if set (URL always wins).
2. Classify each URL as a listing or a firm profile.
3. Fetch each listing and pull every firm profile link from the embedded JSON-LD CollectionPage > mainEntity.itemListElement[]. ~30 firms per listing page.
4. Follow pagination by walking ?page=N until either no rel="next" link exists or maxItems is reached.
5. Fetch each firm detail page in parallel through a global sliding window.
6. Parse the JSON-LD LegalService block for name, description, phone, full address, geo coordinates, multiple offices, employees, practice areas, website. Inline the main address into locations[0] (FindLaw uses an @id reference there).
7. Push one row per firm to the dataset and export data.csv + data.json at the end.

🪶 Lite mode

Toggle liteMode on and the scraper extracts data directly from each listing page's embedded LegalService items — no per-firm detail HTTP calls. Trade-off:

• ~30× faster + ~30× cheaper. One listing fetch yields ~30 rows.
• Smaller field set. name, telephone, image, addressLocality (city), addressRegion (state), addressCountry, priceRange. Not in lite mode: description, geo coordinates, multiple offices, employees, practice areas, website, LinkedIn, full street address.

Use lite mode for cheap, large-scale lead-gen runs where you only need name + phone + city. Use full mode for CRM enrichment, competitive intelligence, or any workflow that needs offices, employees, practice areas, or website data.

⚙️ Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	["https://lawyers.findlaw.com/family-law/california/los-angeles/"]	Optional FindLaw URLs to crawl directly. Listing pages and firm-profile URLs both supported. Takes precedence over the dropdowns below.
searchByCategory	array (enum)	["family-law"]	Practice-area slugs (31 options). Multi-select. Combined with states + cities as a cartesian product.
searchByLocation	array (enum)	["california"]	US state slugs (51 options including DC). Multi-select. Empty = national listings.
searchByCity	array (string)	["los-angeles"]	Optional city slugs. Multi-select. When set, narrows to /{practice-area}/{state}/{city}/.
liteMode	boolean	false	Skip per-firm detail fetches; emit one row per listing card. ~30× faster but smaller field set.
maxItems	integer	1000	Hard cap on firm profiles collected. Listings paginate ~30 per page.
maxConcurrency / minConcurrency	integer	10 / 1	Parallel HTTP request limits.
maxRequestRetries	integer	5	Retries before a request is given up.
proxy	object	Apify residential, US	Proxy configuration. FindLaw serves Cloudflare on listing + detail pages — a US residential pool is strongly recommended.

📊 Output overview

Each scraped firm is one single dataset row of type: "firm". There are no separate rows for offices or employees — both are nested arrays on the same firm row, so the dataset row count equals the firm count exactly.

📦 Output sample

One row per firm (trimmed to the most useful fields):

{
    "type": "firm",
    "firmId": "Mzc1MjA3NV8x",
    "id": "Mzc1MjA3NV8x",
    "url": "https://lawyers.findlaw.com/california/los-angeles/the-law-offices-of-teresa-a-beyers-Mzc1MjA3NV8x/",
    "profileUrl": "https://lawyers.findlaw.com/california/los-angeles/the-law-offices-of-teresa-a-beyers-Mzc1MjA3NV8x/",
    "name": "The Law Offices of Teresa A. Beyers",
    "legalName": "The Law Offices of Teresa A. Beyers",
    "description": "The Law Offices of Teresa A. Beyers, a Los Angeles, United States Law Firm - Family Law, Divorce, Custody",
    "bioSummary": "The Law Offices of Teresa A. Beyers, a Los Angeles, United States Law Firm - Family Law, Divorce, Custody",
    "image": "https://lawyers.findlaw.com/static/c/images/.../the_law_offices_of_teresa_a_beyers.jpg",
    "telephone": "+1-213-933-6681",
    "primaryPhone": "2139336681",
    "address": "355 S Grand Ave Ste 2450, Los Angeles, CA",
    "streetAddress": "355 S Grand Ave Ste 2450",
    "addressLocality": "Los Angeles",
    "addressRegion": "CA",
    "city": "Los Angeles",
    "state": "CA",
    "postalCode": "90071",
    "addressCountry": "US",
    "coordinates": { "latitude": 34.052536, "longitude": -118.2526779 },
    "practiceAreas": ["Family Law", "Divorce", "Custody", "Child Support"],
    "areaServed": ["California"],
    "numberOfEmployees": 1,
    "employees": [
        {
            "name": "Teresa A. Beyers",
            "jobTitle": null,
            "profileUrl": "https://lawyers.findlaw.com/california/los-angeles/teresa-a-beyers-Mzc1MzQy.../",
            "image": "https://lawyers.findlaw.com/static/c/images/.../teresa_a_beyers.jpg"
        }
    ],
    "locations": [
        {
            "name": "The Law Offices of Teresa A. Beyers - Main Office",
            "streetAddress": "355 S Grand Ave Ste 2450",
            "addressLocality": "Los Angeles",
            "addressRegion": "CA",
            "postalCode": "90071",
            "addressCountry": "US",
            "telephone": "+1-213-933-6681",
            "profileUrl": null
        },
        {
            "name": "The Law Offices of Teresa A. Beyers - Newport Beach Office",
            "streetAddress": "620 Newport Center Dr # 1100",
            "addressLocality": "Newport Beach",
            "addressRegion": "CA",
            "postalCode": "92660",
            "addressCountry": null,
            "telephone": "213-933-6681",
            "profileUrl": "https://lawyers.findlaw.com/california/newport-beach/the-law-offices-of-teresa-a-beyers-NTM3ODk0NV8x/"
        }
    ],
    "website": "https://www.teresabeyersfamilylaw.com",
    "linkedin": null,
    "sameAs": ["https://www.teresabeyersfamilylaw.com"],
    "priceRange": "Varies based on case specifics",
    "currenciesAccepted": "USD",
    "ogImage": "https://lawyers.findlaw.com/static/c/images/.../teresa_a_beyers.jpg",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-09T22:25:01.117Z"
}

🗂 Key output fields

Group	Fields
Identifiers	type, firmId, id (alias), url / profileUrl, scrapedAt
Firm	name, legalName, description (full), bioSummary (first sentence), image, numberOfEmployees
Contact	telephone (formatted), primaryPhone (digits-only 10-digit form), address (composed), streetAddress, addressLocality / city, addressRegion / state, postalCode, addressCountry, coordinates.{latitude,longitude}
Practice	practiceAreas[] (e.g. ["Family Law", "Divorce", "Custody"]), areaServed[] (e.g. ["California"])
Offices	locations[].{name, streetAddress, addressLocality, addressRegion, postalCode, addressCountry, telephone, profileUrl} — main + every branch office
Attorneys	employees[].{name, jobTitle, profileUrl, image} — every attorney at the firm with their individual FindLaw profile URL
Web presence	website (first non-social URL), linkedin (LinkedIn URL if present), sameAs[] (full outbound link list)
Commercials	priceRange (e.g. "$200-400 per hour" or "Varies based on case specifics"), currenciesAccepted

❓ FAQ

Which FindLaw URLs are supported? Listing URLs at every level (/{practice-area}/{state}/{city}/, /{practice-area}/{state}/, /{practice-area}/, /{state}/) and direct firm/attorney profile URLs (/{state}/{city}/{firm-slug}-{base64-id}/). FindLaw articles, Q&A, and the Marketing Solutions site are skipped.

Do I have to paste a URL or can I just pick from dropdowns? Either works, but URLs take strict precedence. If startUrls has any entry, the dropdowns are completely ignored (a warning is printed in the run log). To use the dropdowns, leave startUrls empty.

Why is this a "firm" scraper, not an "attorney" scraper? FindLaw's listings + JSON-LD are firm-centric (LegalService schema). Each row is one firm/profile with attorneys nested in employees[]. If you want one row per attorney, walk the employees[].profileUrl URLs in a follow-up run.

What's locations[] vs address / streetAddress? The top-level address/streetAddress is the firm's primary office. locations[] carries every office (including the primary one as locations[0]). For multi-office firms, locations[] is where the satellite offices are.

When should I enable liteMode? Enable for cheap, large-scale lead-gen runs where you only need name + phone + city/state. One listing fetch yields ~30 rows (~30× faster and cheaper than full mode). Disable for CRM enrichment, market intelligence, or any workflow that needs the offices/employees/practice areas.

Why is my run getting blocked? FindLaw serves Cloudflare on every page. The scraper's three-stack TLS race (impit + got-scraping + curl-impersonate Chrome 131) handles that without browser automation, but only the curl-impersonate stack reliably gets through. Keep the default RESIDENTIAL + country: US proxy on; if you turn the proxy off you'll see 403s immediately.

Can I scrape private pages or recruiter-only views? No. The scraper accesses only publicly available firm and attorney profiles — no logged-in content, no FindLaw Pro / advertising-only features.

How do I limit results? Set maxItems. The actor stops queuing new firms as soon as the cap is reached.

💬 Support

• For issues or feature requests, please use the Issues tab on the actor's Apify Console page.
• Author's website: https://muhamed-didovic.github.io/
• Email: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

🛠 Additional services

• Custom output shape, additional fields, or one-off datasets: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com
• Need a similar scraper for another legal directory (Avvo, Justia, Martindale, Lawyers.com, Super Lawyers)? Drop an email — Avvo is already shipped.
• For API access (no Apify fee, just a usage fee for the API): muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by FindLaw, Thomson Reuters, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper accesses only publicly available firm and attorney profile pages on lawyers.findlaw.com — no authenticated endpoints, no FindLaw Pro / advertising-only features, no content behind a logged-in session. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with lawyers.findlaw.com's Terms of Service, applicable data-protection law (GDPR, CCPA, etc.), and any state-bar rules around the marketing or use of attorney data in their jurisdiction.

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