Justia.com Lawyer Leads Scraper (Apify Actor)

High-signal, budget-friendly scraping of lawyer leads from Justia.
This actor crawls state × practice area listings sequentially (page by page), opens each lawyer profile, pulls rich profile metadata, and (optionally) visits the lawyer’s own website to harvest and normalize email addresses.

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Why this is the best lawyer lead actor on Apify

Depth of data (more than typical list scrapers):

• Biography
• Direct phone
• Website visit & email discovery dummy domain filtering and multi-email support (comma-joined)
• Granular profile blocks parsed into separate columns: Practice Areas, Jurisdictions, Languages, Professional Experience, Education, Awards, Professional Associations, Publications
• All socials broken out into columns (Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Avvo, Lawyers.com, Martindale, blog) + vCard
• Profile image URL and canonical profile URL

Efficiency & reliability

• Sequential page-by-page crawl per combo (prevents exploding queues and billing caps)
• JSON-LD assisted discovery + anchor fallbacks for robust URL extraction
• Email normalization with placeholder & telemetry domain filters
• Proxy support and configurable delays

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Captured Fields (columns)

Every field is output as a string column (no arrays):

• fullName
• phone
• location - "City, State, ZIP" if present
• about - biography
• profileUrl - Justia profile URL
• profilePictureUrl
• websiteUrl - external site (not directories/socials)
• website - same value as websiteUrl (duplicate field, per spec)
• email - all discovered emails from the lawyer’s site, comma-separated
  • Filters: sentry.io, sentry.wixpress.com, sentry-next.wixpress.com, example.*, test.*, invalid, localhost, localdomain, email.com, etc.
• practiceAreas
• jurisdictions (a.k.a. “Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice”)
• languages
• professionalExperience
• education
• awards
• professionalAssociations
• publications
• facebook
• x (X/Twitter)
• linkedin
• instagram
• justia (the profile itself)
• avvo
• lawyers_com
• martindale
• blog
• vcardUrl

Block fields (e.g., Practice Areas, Education) are comma-separated strings built from Justia’s description lists and languages widgets.

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Inputs (via INPUT.json / --input-file)

Key	Type	Required	Default	Notes
states	string[]	✅	-	Use state names (e.g., "New York"). Include "All" to scrape all supported states.
fields	string[]	✅	-	Use practice area names (e.g., "Family Law"). Include "All" to scrape all supported fields.
maxItems	number	❌	1000	Global cap across all combos.
visitWebsitesForEmails	boolean	❌	true	If true, fetch websites and harvest emails.
websiteCrawlDepth	number	❌	1	Within-domain depth for email harvesting (0 = homepage only).
proxy	object	✅	-	Standard Apify proxy object, e.g. { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }.
minDelayMs	number	❌	800	Random polite delay between requests.
maxDelayMs	number	❌	1800	-
maxPagesPerCombo	number	❌	200	Safety limit for pagination per State × Field combo.

Supported states

All 50 US states + Washington, DC. Use canonical names (e.g., "New York", "Washington, DC").

Supported fields

Full Justia mapping (e.g., Family Law, Criminal Law, Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Bankruptcy, Employment Law, Immigration Law, Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Patents, White Collar Crime, etc.).
Use the exact names from the list in the actor’s constants; "All" works too.

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Example input

{
  "states": ["New York"],
  "fields": ["Family Law"],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "visitWebsitesForEmails": true,
  "websiteCrawlDepth": 1,
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] },
  "minDelayMs": 900,
  "maxDelayMs": 1600,
  "maxPagesPerCombo": 150
}

Example output

{
  "fullName": "Jane Doe",
  "phone": "123123123",
  "location": "New York, NY, 10001",
  "about": "Jane focuses her practice on high-asset matrimonial disputes...",
  "profileUrl": "https://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/jane-doe-1111111",
  "profilePictureUrl": "https://justatic.com/profile-images/111111-11111111-s.jpg",
  "websiteUrl": "https://www.examplelawfirm.com/",
  "website": "https://www.examplelawfirm.com/",
  "email": "contact@examplelawfirm.com,contact2@examplelawfirm.com",
  "practiceAreas": "Family Law - Divorce, Family Law - Child Custody",
  "jurisdictions": "New York - Since 2015",
  "languages": "English: Spoken, Written, Spanish: Spoken",
  "professionalExperience": "Partner - Example Law Firm - 2020 - Current",
  "education": "Columbia Law School - J.D. (2014)",
  "awards": "Super Lawyers - Rising Stars - 2019",
  "professionalAssociations": "NY State Bar Association - Member",
  "publications": "Equitable Distribution in NY - NYLJ - 2022",
  "facebook": null,
  "x": "https://x.com/xxxx",
  "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/xxxx/",
  "instagram": null,
  "justia": "https://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/jane-doe-1111111",
  "avvo": "https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/10001-ny-jane-done-111111.html",
  "lawyers_com": null,
  "martindale": null,
  "blog": "https://www.examplelawfirm.com/blog/",
  "vcardUrl": "https://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/jane-done-lawyer-1111111/vcard"
}