Justia Lawyer Scraper — Attorney Leads

Justia Lawyer Directory Scraper — Attorney Leads

Extract attorney profiles from the Justia Lawyer Directory with practice areas, contact details, bar admissions, education, ratings, and reviews. Filter by practice area and geographic location, or supply direct Justia directory listing URLs.

Use Cases

• Legal lead generation — build lists of licensed attorneys by practice area and city/county for sales outreach
• Attorney prospecting — find lawyers with published phone, website, and office address for CRM enrichment
• Legal-tech data enrichment — feed attorney directories, comparison tools, and matching platforms
• Market research — analyze attorney distribution by practice area, geography, rating, and law school
• Recruitment — source attorneys by specialization for law firm hiring or expert-network platforms

Input

The actor supports two input modes. When startUrls are given, practiceArea and location are ignored. An empty input runs the Console example (family law in Los Angeles).

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	[]	Direct Justia lawyer listing or profile URLs (must contain justia.com/lawyers)
practiceArea	enum	none (prefilled family-law)	Practice-area slug (e.g., criminal-law, personal-injury, bankruptcy)
location	string	none (prefilled california/los-angeles)	Geographic slug in state/city or state/county format
maxResults	integer	50	Maximum lawyer records to extract (1–10,000)
scrapeProfileDetails	boolean	true	Visit each lawyer's profile page to enrich with bar admissions, law school, and additional contact info

URL formats accepted in startUrls

• Practice area: https://www.justia.com/lawyers/family-law
• Location: https://www.justia.com/lawyers/california/los-angeles
• Combined: https://www.justia.com/lawyers/family-law/california/los-angeles
• County: https://www.justia.com/lawyers/california/los-angeles-county

Individual profile URLs (lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/...) are not accepted as start URLs; use the directory page that lists the lawyer.

Example inputs

{
    "practiceArea": "family-law",
    "location": "california/los-angeles",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "scrapeProfileDetails": true
}

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.justia.com/lawyers/criminal-law/illinois/chicago" }],
    "maxResults": 200
}

{
    "practiceArea": "personal-injury",
    "location": "texas/houston",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "scrapeProfileDetails": false
}

Output

Each dataset item is a lawyer record with the following fields:

Field	Type	Example
lawyer_name	string | null	"Jane A. Roe"
firm_name	string | null	"Roe & Partners LLP"
practice_areas	string[] | null	["Family Law","Divorce"]
city	string | null	"Los Angeles"
state	string | null	"CA"
phone	string | null	"(213) 555-0100"
email	string | null	"jane@roelaw.com"
website	string | null	"https://roelaw.com"
address	string | null	"500 Market St, Los Angeles, CA 90013"
rating	number | null	4.8
reviews_count	number | null	23
bar_admissions	string[] | null	["State Bar of California"]
law_school	string | null	"UCLA School of Law"
profile_url	string | null	"https://www.justia.com/lawyers/jane-roe-12345"
scraped_at	string (ISO 8601)	"2026-07-05T12:00:00.000Z"
source_url	string	"https://www.justia.com/lawyers/family-law/california/los-angeles"

Fields are filled only from what Justia publishes. email is usually null because most Justia profiles use a contact form instead of a public address. practice_areas, reviews_count, bar_admissions, law_school, and the office address come from the profile page, so they need scrapeProfileDetails: true. rating is on a 5-point scale (Justia's 10-point peer rating is divided by two).

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify Store event prices:

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold, Platinum, Diamond	When it is charged
lawyer-found	$0.025001	$0.024375	$0.023750	$0.020000	One unique attorney record saved to the dataset.
apify-actor-start	$0.006251	$0.006094	$0.005938	$0.005000	Actor start; one event per started GB of memory (2 at the default 2 GB).

Example: 50 records on the Free tier cost about $1.26 (50 × $0.025001 plus 2 start events). Each lawyer is charged once, only after its record is saved; failed pages and blocked requests are never charged, and the run stops cleanly at your maxTotalChargeUsd. Apify platform usage and network access are included in the event prices.

API & Integration

Run the actor via API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/muhammadafzal~justia-lawyer-directory-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"practiceArea":"family-law","location":"california/los-angeles","maxResults":50}'

Export results:

$curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/DATASET_ID/items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN&format=json"

Integrate with Zapier, Make, n8n, Airbyte, LangChain, or any tool that consumes Apify datasets.

Reliability & Anti-Blocking

• Browser rendering with a bounded session pool and polite 1–3 s delays between requests
• Network routing handled by the Actor with a per-run US session; older customProxyUrl input values are ignored
• 3-layer extraction: JSON-LD structured data → DOM parsing with multi-selector fallback → profile-page enrichment (one profile request per lawyer)
• Pagination auto-follow (a[rel="next"], ?page=N)
• Honest endings: the run stops at maxResults, at the charge limit, or about a minute before the run timeout, and writes the stop reason, delivered count, and charged events to the OUTPUT record. If every listing page is blocked or fails, the run ends as failed with no result charges.

Notes

• Justia's directory contains hundreds of thousands of attorney profiles across all US states. Large extraction jobs (10,000+ records) should set scrapeProfileDetails: false for speed, then re-enrich a subset.
• Practice-area slugs follow Justia's URL convention (kebab-case). Common slugs are pre-listed in the input schema dropdown; custom slugs can be typed manually.
• The actor is MCP-ready: AI agents (Claude, GPT, Cursor) can call it with a single practiceArea + location pair and receive structured JSON.

FAQ

How many lawyers can I extract per run?

Up to 10,000 per run with maxResults. With profile details on, expect roughly 5–10 profiles per minute; very large jobs should run with scrapeProfileDetails: false, or be split by city or county.

Does it return lawyer email addresses?

Only when a profile publishes one, which is rare. Justia usually routes contact through a form, so email is mostly null; phone, website, and office address are much more common.

Can I use my own proxy?

No. Network routing is handled by the Actor and is included in the price. Proxy fields from older inputs are ignored.

Legal & Compliance

This actor scrapes publicly available attorney profile data from the Justia Lawyer Directory. Ensure your use complies with Justia's Terms of Service and applicable data-protection laws (GDPR, CCPA) when handling contact information. Output is intended for B2B lead generation and research purposes.

Last verified: 2026-10-27