State Bar Attorney License Scraper

Collects licensed attorneys straight from the bodies that license them — the State Bar of California, Colorado's Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, the State Bar of Georgia and the North Carolina State Bar. Every row is an attorney the state itself lists on its public register, with a bar number, a license status, an admission date, a firm, an office address and contact details.

Because this is the licensing authority's own record rather than a marketing directory, each row carries something a lawyer directory cannot: proof the person is actually licensed, what their current standing is, and — for California and Colorado — the full history of status changes, administrative actions and public discipline attached to that license.

Search by name, city or firm across one state or several at once. Results are interleaved between the states you select, so a four-state run does not get filled up by the first state.

No API key or account is needed.

Input

Field	Default	Description
States	CA,GA	Comma-separated two-letter states. Supported: CA, CO, GA, NC.
Last name	Smith	Attorney last name.
First name	(empty)	Attorney first name.
City	(empty)	City of the attorney's registered office. Used by CA, GA and NC; Colorado's register searches by name only.
Firm name	(empty)	Law firm or employer. Used by CA and GA; CO and NC offer no firm filter.
Open each attorney's profile page	On	Opens every matched attorney's own profile page for the address, phone, email, law school, practice areas and discipline history. Turn it off for a much faster run that returns only name, bar number, status, city and admission date. Georgia publishes everything in one step and is unaffected.
Max results	25	Maximum number of attorney records across all selected states.
Proxy configuration	Off	Optional. Some of these registries only answer requests from inside the US — enable a US residential proxy if a run comes back with access errors.

At least one of last name, first name, city or firm name must be given; every one of these registries requires a search term and none of them will return the whole roll.

Output

One row per attorney.

{
  "state": "CA",
  "source_label": "State Bar of California",
  "bar_number": "231838",
  "name": "Smith, Aaron Bryant",
  "first_name": "Aaron",
  "middle_name": "Bryant",
  "last_name": "Smith",
  "suffix": "",
  "license_status": "Active",
  "status_detail": "",
  "admission_date": "2004-07-16",
  "firm_name": "Law Office of Aaron B. Smith",
  "address": "241 S Broadway St Ste 205",
  "city": "Orcutt",
  "address_state": "CA",
  "zip_code": "93455-4659",
  "county": "",
  "district": "",
  "phone": "805-739-5500",
  "fax": "805-739-5504",
  "email": "aaron@aaronbsmithlaw.com",
  "website": "https://aaronbsmithlaw.com/",
  "law_school": "Santa Barbara COL; Santa Barbara CA",
  "practice_areas": "Business Law; Contracts; Real Estate; Trusts & Estates; Wills & Probate",
  "bar_sections": "",
  "certifications": "",
  "languages": "",
  "discipline_count": 0,
  "discipline_history": "Present | Active ;; 7/16/2004 | Admitted to the State Bar of California",
  "profile_url": "https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/231838"
}

{
  "state": "GA",
  "source_label": "State Bar of Georgia",
  "bar_number": "170291",
  "name": "Mrs. Alexandra Claire Apple",
  "first_name": "Alexandra",
  "middle_name": "Claire",
  "last_name": "Apple",
  "suffix": "",
  "license_status": "Active Member in Good Standing",
  "status_detail": "",
  "admission_date": "2015-12-04",
  "firm_name": "Troutman Pepper Locke LLP",
  "address": "600 Peachtree Street NE Suite 3000",
  "city": "Atlanta",
  "address_state": "GA",
  "zip_code": "30308",
  "county": "Fulton",
  "district": "5",
  "phone": "(404) 885-3456",
  "fax": "(404) 885-3900",
  "email": "allie.apple@troutman.com",
  "website": "",
  "law_school": "University of Georgia",
  "practice_areas": "",
  "bar_sections": "Business Law; Construction Law",
  "certifications": "",
  "languages": "",
  "discipline_count": 0,
  "discipline_history": "",
  "profile_url": "https://www.gabar.org/member-directory/?id=79A3B669FCDEE88AEE41C09E42E3414F"
}

{
  "state": "CO",
  "source_label": "Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel",
  "bar_number": "15240",
  "name": "CALLA MARIE SMITH",
  "first_name": "CALLA",
  "middle_name": "MARIE",
  "last_name": "SMITH",
  "suffix": "",
  "license_status": "SUSG – Suspended Grievance",
  "status_detail": "Active or Inactive attorney has been suspended from the practice of law in Colorado by order of the Colorado Supreme Court and/or the Presiding Disciplinary Judge, pursuant to C.R.C.P. 242.10(a)(2) for discipline (formerly grievance). Attorney is prohibited from practicing law in Colorado.",
  "admission_date": "1985-11-01",
  "firm_name": "",
  "address": "425 S Cherry St Ste 920",
  "city": "Denver",
  "address_state": "CO",
  "zip_code": "80246-1236",
  "county": "",
  "district": "",
  "phone": "(303)322-0685",
  "fax": "",
  "email": "",
  "website": "",
  "law_school": "",
  "practice_areas": "",
  "bar_sections": "",
  "certifications": "",
  "languages": "",
  "discipline_count": 2,
  "discipline_history": "99PDJ040 ;; GC93B087 | 09/12/1994 | Suspension | 6 months | Issued | 94SA0214",
  "profile_url": "https://www.coloradolegalregulation.com/attorney-search/attorney-information?Regnum=15240"
}

Fields a given state does not publish come back as an empty string rather than being dropped, so every row has the same shape and spreadsheets stay aligned. The one number, discipline_count, comes back as null when it is not known.

How the columns line up across states:

• admission_date is the date the attorney was admitted in that state, always written YYYY-MM-DD. California's result list gives only the month, so with profile pages turned off a California row reads YYYY-MM.
• license_status is the attorney's current standing in the state's own words (for example Active, Inactive Member in Good Standing, INAC – Inactive). status_detail is the state's plain-English explanation of that status where it publishes one.
• address is the street part of the office address; the city, state and ZIP are in their own columns. An address outside the US is kept whole.
• discipline_count counts public discipline only: California rows count the entries in the Discipline column of the license history, not resignations or administrative suspensions such as unpaid fees, which stay visible in discipline_history. Colorado and North Carolina count disciplinary cases. Georgia publishes only whether a member has public discipline, so its value is 0 or 1.
• discipline_history for California is the full license history (status changes, discipline and administrative actions, each labelled); for Colorado and North Carolina it lists the disciplinary cases.

What each state publishes

	CA	CO	GA	NC
Bar / registration number	yes	yes	yes	yes
License status	yes	yes	yes	yes
Plain-English meaning of the status	—	yes	—	yes
Admission date	yes	yes	yes	yes
Firm	yes	yes	yes	—
Street address	yes	yes	yes	yes
County	—	—	yes	—
Judicial district / circuit	—	—	yes	yes
Phone	yes	yes	yes	yes
Fax	yes	—	yes	—
Email	yes	—	yes	yes
Website	yes	—	—	—
Law school	yes	—	yes	—
Self-reported practice areas	yes	—	—	—
Bar sections	yes	—	yes	—
Board certifications	—	—	—	yes
Languages spoken	yes	—	—	—
Status / discipline history	yes	yes	count only	yes

Limits worth knowing

• Each registry caps what a single search returns. California returns at most 500 matches per search; Colorado, Georgia and North Carolina return their own page limits. Narrow by name, city or firm to reach attorneys beyond the cap.
• A California search by location alone returns a randomised sample of active licensees rather than a stable alphabetical list, so two identical location-only runs will not return the same people. Add a name to get a repeatable result set.
• Georgia's directory matches a name against former names and middle names too, so a last-name search there returns some attorneys whose current surname is different.
• Email addresses appear only where the attorney has published one and has not asked the bar to hide it.
• Colorado shows only the disciplinary history the Supreme Court makes public; states also remove some older administrative suspensions from a profile under their own published policies. An empty discipline history means nothing is published today, not that nothing ever happened.
• This is licensing data, not a rating or a recommendation. States say plainly that they do not verify self-reported practice areas or vouch for competence.

Source

Data comes from each state's own public attorney register:

• State Bar of California licensee search
• Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel attorney search
• State Bar of Georgia member directory
• North Carolina State Bar membership verification

If every selected registry fails to answer, the run fails with the reason rather than returning an empty or placeholder result.