Avvo Lawyer Scraper

Pull structured US attorney profiles from Avvo at scale — name, firm, license history, fees, peer endorsements, awards, languages, bar admissions, and the full Avvo Rating with its label. Built for legal-tech product teams and lead-generation analysts who need verified attorney directories delivered straight to a spreadsheet, CRM, or BI dashboard without piecing them together page by page.

Why This Scraper?

• Three discovery modes — URLs, state + practice area, or free-text search — paste profile URLs directly, sweep all 50 US states + DC across 16 common practice areas, or describe each attorney as "divorce lawyers, San Francisco CA" / "John Smith attorney, Austin TX" and the actor resolves each query to a real Avvo profile.
• One row per attorney with 30+ structured fields — license-acquired year, years-licensed integer, license status, primary practice area, bar admissions array, education array, awards, associations, publications, speaking engagements, peer endorsement count, and the Avvo Rating value plus label (Superb, Excellent, Good, Average, Concern, Strong Caution, Extreme Caution).
• Avvo Rating captured on its native 0–10 scale plus the named label — avvoRating returns the numeric score (e.g. 9.5) and avvoRatingLabel carries Avvo's official tier word like "Superb", so you can filter on either the raw number or the marketing-grade band.
• Fee structure detected as four boolean flags — feeFreeConsultation, feeContingency, feePaymentPlans and a free-form feeHourlyRate string, parsed from each profile's offer block — useful for shortlisting attorneys whose engagement model fits a referral or partnership.
• Practice-area split as percentages — practiceAreaPercentages returns each area with its share of the lawyer's caseload (e.g. "Personal Injury": 50%, "Criminal Defense": 40%, "Family": 10%), so you can score how specialised an attorney really is.
• Disciplinary action surfaced as a single boolean — disciplinaryAction: true/false, parsed from the license container's "no misconduct found" / "misconduct found" text — flag risk in one column, no manual reading.
• Optional inline client reviews with ISO 8601 dates — flip includeReviews: true to nest each attorney's reviews directly on the row: stars (1–5), reviewer name, "Hired Attorney" badge, title, body, posted date, and the lawyer's official reply with its own posted date.
• 50 US states + DC and 16 common practice areas pre-listed — pick from a checkbox list (Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, Divorce & Separation, Family, Bankruptcy & Debt, Employment & Labor, Estate Planning, Business, Real Estate, Immigration, DUI & DWI, Intellectual Property, Tax, Medical Malpractice, Landlord & Tenant, Social Security & Disability) — leaving both empty sweeps the full Cartesian product for a nationwide crawl.
• Pricing pays only for what you keep — split per-event model: $1.30 per 1 000 attorney profiles plus $1.50 per 1 000 reviews collected, so reviews-off runs are billed exclusively on attorney rows and you decide if review data is worth the line item.

Use Cases

Lead Generation & Sales Intelligence

• Build target lists of personal-injury or family-law attorneys in specific states for legal-tech outreach
• Identify free-consultation attorneys filtered by city and practice area for B2B referral programs
• Source attorney emails and phone numbers (where Avvo publishes them) for ICP-matched cold outreach
• Pre-qualify leads by Avvo Rating tier — only target attorneys rated "Superb" or "Excellent"

Legal Tech & Aggregator Platforms

• Power an attorney-comparison app with verified license, fee, and rating data across all 50 states
• Feed structured attorney records into a lawyer-marketplace product without manual data entry
• Augment internal CRM records with public bar admission history, peer endorsements, and award lists
• Cross-reference attorneys across multiple directory sites by matching on name + state + bar admission year

Market Research & Competitive Intelligence

• Map regional density of practice-area specialists — how many DUI lawyers per state, how many bankruptcy attorneys per metro
• Quantify the share of attorneys offering contingency fees vs. hourly retainers across personal-injury markets
• Benchmark average Avvo Rating by practice area, by state, or by years-licensed cohort
• Track how attorney specialisation patterns differ between coastal metros and heartland markets

Lawyer Recruiting & Talent Sourcing

• Source senior attorneys (15+ years licensed) by practice area and bar admission state for partner-track roles
• Find bilingual attorneys via the structured languages array — Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, etc.
• Identify award-winning attorneys (Super Lawyers, Top 100 Trial Lawyers) for targeted recruiting
• Map alumni networks by school using the parsed education array

Academic & Investigative Research

• Study attorney specialisation patterns at scale across US legal markets
• Analyse how disciplinary action correlates with practice area, years-licensed, and Avvo Rating
• Measure peer endorsement volume as a proxy for attorney reputation in their local bar
• Audit fee-disclosure norms — how often free consultations or contingency fees are advertised by area

Getting Started

Single Attorney by URL — Reviews Off

The simplest run — pull one full profile, no review fetching:

{
    "attorneyUrls": [
        "https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/94104-ca-john-doe-12345.html"
    ],
    "includeReviews": false
}

State + Practice Area Sweep

Discover every California personal-injury attorney Avvo publishes, capped at 500 rows:

{
    "states": ["CA"],
    "practiceAreas": ["personal-injury"],
    "maxItems": 500,
    "includeReviews": false
}

Multi-State Crawl with Reviews Inlined

Sweep three states across two practice areas and inline up to 20 reviews per attorney:

{
    "states": ["CA", "NY", "TX"],
    "practiceAreas": ["divorce-separation", "family"],
    "maxItems": 1000,
    "includeReviews": true,
    "maxReviewsPerAttorney": 20
}

Free-Text Search Mode

When you don't have URLs or precise state + practice-area combos in hand:

{
    "lawyerSearch": [
        "personal injury, Los Angeles, CA",
        "estate planning, Boston, MA",
        "John Smith attorney, Austin TX"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50
}

Input Reference

Discovery — How to Find Attorneys

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
attorneyUrls	string[]	[]	Avvo profile URLs (e.g. https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/94104-ca-john-doe-12345.html). One URL per line. Each URL produces one attorney row.
states	string[]	[]	Two-letter US state codes (e.g. CA, NY, TX). Leave empty to cover all 50 states + DC. Combined with practiceAreas to discover attorneys via Avvo directory pages.
practiceAreas	string[]	[]	Practice-area slugs to filter by. Leave empty to cover all 16 common areas. Combined with states.
lawyerSearch	string[]	[]	Free-text queries like "divorce lawyers, San Francisco CA" or "John Smith attorney, Austin TX". Each query is resolved to its top matching Avvo profile.

Reviews — Optional Nested Review Data

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includeReviews	boolean	false	When ON, fetch client reviews for each attorney and include them as a nested reviews[] array on the attorney row. When OFF, only the review summary (count + average rating) is returned. Turning this ON significantly increases run time and cost.
maxReviewsPerAttorney	integer (0–100)	10	Cap on reviews captured per attorney. Only applies when includeReviews: true. Set to 0 for no cap.

Limits — Control Total Output Size

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	100	Cap on the total number of attorney rows returned. Set to 0 (or leave empty) for no cap. The actor stops requesting new directory pages once the cap is reached but keeps the full last page if it slightly overshoots.

Output

Each attorney row is a flat JSON object. When includeReviews: true, a nested reviews[] array is appended.

Example Attorney Row

{
    "attorneyName": "Brian Anton Dasinger",
    "firmName": "The Law Offices of Brian A. Dasinger",
    "slug": "brian-dasinger",
    "attorneyId": "4315950",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/36532-al-brian-dasinger-4315950.html",
    "city": "Fairhope",
    "state": "AL",
    "addressLine1": "22811 US Highway 98 Suite 3",
    "zipcode": "36532",
    "phone": "+1 (251) 270-4074",
    "website": "https://www.dasingerdefense.com/",
    "primaryPracticeArea": "Personal Injury",
    "practiceAreas": ["Criminal Defense", "Family", "Personal Injury"],
    "practiceAreaPercentages": [
        {"name": "Personal Injury", "percentage": 50},
        {"name": "Criminal Defense", "percentage": 40},
        {"name": "Family", "percentage": 10}
    ],
    "languages": ["English"],
    "yearsLicensed": 24,
    "licensedSince": "2001",
    "licenseStatus": "No misconduct found",
    "barAdmissions": [
        {"state": "Alabama", "since": "2001", "organization": "Alabama State Bar"}
    ],
    "education": [
        {"school": "Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law JD - Juris Doctor", "degree": null, "year": "2001"},
        {"school": "Huntingdon College BA - Bachelor of Arts", "degree": null, "year": "1995"}
    ],
    "avvoRating": 9.6,
    "avvoRatingLabel": "Superb",
    "reviewCount": 5,
    "averageReviewRating": 5.0,
    "peerEndorsementCount": 3,
    "awards": ["Top 100 Trial Lawyers - 2025", "Top 100 Trial Lawyers - 2024"],
    "associations": ["Baldwin County Bar Association", "Mobile Bar Association"],
    "publications": [],
    "speakingEngagements": [],
    "feeFreeConsultation": true,
    "feeContingency": false,
    "feePaymentPlans": false,
    "feeHourlyRate": null,
    "disciplinaryAction": false,
    "reviews": []
}

Identity & Contact

Field	Type	Description
attorneyName	string	Full attorney name as displayed on Avvo.
firmName	string	Law firm or solo practice name.
slug	string	Lowercase URL slug component (e.g. brian-dasinger).
attorneyId	string	Avvo's stable numeric profile ID.
profileUrl	string	Canonical Avvo profile URL.
city	string	Office city.
state	string	Two-letter US state code.
addressLine1	string	Office street address.
zipcode	string	Office ZIP code.
phone	string	Office phone number in international format when published.
website	string	Attorney's external firm website (excludes social profiles).

Practice & Specialisation

Field	Type	Description
primaryPracticeArea	string	The practice area with the highest share of the attorney's caseload.
practiceAreas	string[]	All practice areas the attorney handles.
practiceAreaPercentages	object[]	Each practice area with its share of the caseload (name, percentage).
languages	string[]	Languages the attorney speaks.

License & Credentials

Field	Type	Description
yearsLicensed	integer	Years since first bar admission.
licensedSince	string	Year of first bar admission (e.g. "2001").
licenseStatus	string	License status text from Avvo (e.g. "No misconduct found").
barAdmissions	object[]	Each admission as {state, since, organization}.
education	object[]	Each entry as {school, degree, year}.
disciplinaryAction	boolean	true if Avvo's license container shows misconduct on record.

Reputation & Recognition

Field	Type	Description
avvoRating	number | null	Avvo's 0–10 numeric rating (e.g. 9.7); null for newly listed or temporarily un-rated attorneys.
avvoRatingLabel	string	Avvo's named tier (Superb, Excellent, Good, Average, Concern, Strong Caution, Extreme Caution).
reviewCount	integer	Total client reviews on the profile.
averageReviewRating	number	Average client-review star rating (1–5 scale).
peerEndorsementCount	integer	Number of peer endorsements from other attorneys.
awards	string[]	Awards and honours (e.g. "Top 100 Trial Lawyers - 2025").
associations	string[]	Professional associations and bar committees.
publications	object[]	Each entry as {title, year, source}.
speakingEngagements	object[]	Each entry as {title, year, venue}.

Fees & Engagement

Field	Type	Description
feeFreeConsultation	boolean	true if the attorney advertises a free consultation.
feeContingency	boolean	true if the attorney accepts contingency-fee cases.
feePaymentPlans	boolean	true if payment plans or retainers are offered.
feeHourlyRate	string | null	Avvo's published price-range string when present (e.g. "$300/hour", "$150-300/hr"); null otherwise. About 1 in 5 attorneys publishes this.

Reviews (only when includeReviews: true)

Field	Type	Description
reviews[].reviewId	string	Avvo's stable per-review identifier.
reviews[].reviewerName	string	Reviewer name as displayed.
reviews[].reviewerRelationship	string	"Hired Attorney" if Avvo's verified-client badge is present, else null.
reviews[].stars	integer	1–5 star rating.
reviews[].title	string	Review title.
reviews[].body	string	Full review body.
reviews[].postedAt	string	Posted date in ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD).
reviews[].lawyerResponse	object	The attorney's official reply as {body, postedAt}, or null.

Tips for Best Results

• Scope first, fetch reviews second. Run with includeReviews: false to confirm the attorney count before re-running with reviews enabled — it makes cost projections precise and avoids surprise spend on the per-review line item.
• Cap maxReviewsPerAttorney at 5 to use only inline reviews. The first 5 reviews are inlined inside the profile page itself, so a cap of 5 captures them with zero extra page fetches per attorney.
• Leaving states and practiceAreas empty triggers a 50 × 16 = 800 directory-page sweep. Set a maxItems cap before launching nationwide crawls — top metros can carry 400+ pages per practice area on their own.
• Use the free-text mode for ad-hoc lookups. lawyerSearch: ["John Smith attorney, Austin TX"] is the fastest path to one specific lawyer when you don't have the profile URL handy.
• Filter by Avvo Rating in your downstream tool. The numeric avvoRating plus the categorical avvoRatingLabel give you both axes — sort high-to-low for outreach, or filter to Superb and Excellent only for premium-tier shortlists.
• The disciplinaryAction boolean is the fastest negative-screen. Drop any row where it's true before scoring leads — that's a one-column risk filter, no manual reading.
• Combine with the Avvo Reviews Scraper when you only need reviews. That scraper is review-only at flat per-review pricing — better when you already have a profile URL list and don't need the full attorney metadata returned here.

Pricing

You only pay per attorney returned, plus per review collected when includeReviews: true. No compute charges, no per-run fees.

• $1.30 per 1 000 attorney profiles (attorney-profile-result)
• $1.50 per 1 000 reviews collected (attorney-review-result, only fires when includeReviews: true)

The table below assumes an average of 10 reviews per attorney when reviews are enabled. Real averages vary widely by practice area — high-volume personal-injury and family-law attorneys can carry 100+ reviews each.

Attorneys	Reviews per attorney	Reviews collected	Profile cost	Reviews cost	Total
100	0 (reviews off)	0	$0.13	$0.00	$0.13
100	10	1 000	$0.13	$1.50	$1.63
1 000	0 (reviews off)	0	$1.30	$0.00	$1.30
1 000	10	10 000	$1.30	$15.00	$16.30
10 000	0 (reviews off)	0	$13.00	$0.00	$13.00
10 000	10	100 000	$13.00	$150.00	$163.00
100 000	0 (reviews off)	0	$130.00	$0.00	$130.00
100 000	10	1 000 000	$130.00	$1 500.00	$1 630.00

Integrations

Output flows directly into:

• Zapier — trigger downstream workflows on each new attorney row (CRM enrichment, Slack alerts, sales handoff)
• Make (Integromat) — route rows to Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, or Salesforce
• Google Sheets — push the dataset straight to a sheet for analyst-ready spreadsheets
• n8n — self-hosted automations for legal-tech back-office pipelines
• REST API — pull the dataset programmatically via Apify's public API
• Webhooks — fire run-finished events into your data warehouse, ETL pipeline, or BI tool

Related Actors

• Avvo Reviews Scraper — review-only flow with flat per-review pricing. Use when you already have a list of attorney profile URLs and only need each lawyer's reviews, not the full profile metadata.

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor collects publicly available information from Avvo's website. Users are responsible for complying with Avvo's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) when using the collected data. Do not use the output for unsolicited spam, harassment, or any purpose that violates the rights of attorneys or their clients.