/avvo/lawyers

POST /api/avvo/lawyers

Price: 10 credits

Get an Avvo attorney profile by id (e.g. 1625117), profile slug or profile URL: full name, headshot, biography, Avvo Rating with label, client review star average with per-star breakdown and review count, practice areas with focus percentage and years practiced, office contact and geo, state bar licenses with status and acquired year, spoken languages, education, honors, work experience, speaking engagements, publications, sample cases, professional associations, awards, accepted payment methods, consultation offer and legal-answer / endorsement activity counts.

How to use it

Fetch one Avvo attorney by id (e.g. 1625117), profile slug or profile URL. Returns id, name, alias (slug), profile_url, image, description (biography), taglines, avvo_rating (0-10) with avvo_rating_label, rating (1-5 client star average), review_count, ratings_per_star, phone, website, address/city/state/zip_code, latitude/longitude, practice_areas (name, percent, years_practiced, description), areas_served, languages, licenses (state, status, acquired_year, years_licensed, misconduct), education, honors, work_experience, speaking_engagements, publications, sample_cases, associations, awards, payment_methods, consultation, answer_count and endorsement_count.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• lawyer string required — Avvo attorney id (e.g. 1625117), profile slug or profile URL (examples: "1625117"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "AvvoLawyer")
• id string required
• name string required
• alias string nullable
• profile_url string nullable
• image string nullable
• description string nullable
• taglines array (default: [])
• avvo_rating number nullable
• avvo_rating_label string nullable
• rating number nullable
• review_count integer nullable
• ratings_per_star array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AvvoRatingStar")
  • stars integer required
  • count integer required
  • percentage number required
• phone string nullable
• website string nullable
• address string nullable
• city string nullable
• state string nullable
• zip_code string nullable
• latitude number nullable
• longitude number nullable
• practice_areas array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AvvoLawyerPracticeArea")
  • name string required
  • percent integer nullable
  • years_practiced integer nullable
  • description string nullable
• areas_served array (default: [])
• languages array (default: [])
• licenses array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AvvoLawyerLicense")
  • state string nullable
  • status string nullable
  • acquired_year string nullable
  • years_licensed integer nullable
  • misconduct string nullable
• education array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AvvoLawyerEducation")
  • year string nullable
  • institution string nullable
  • degree string nullable
• honors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AvvoLawyerExperience")
  • period string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • detail string nullable
• work_experience array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AvvoLawyerExperience")
  • period string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • detail string nullable
• speaking_engagements array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AvvoLawyerExperience")
  • period string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • detail string nullable
• publications array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AvvoLawyerExperience")
  • period string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • detail string nullable
• sample_cases array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AvvoLawyerExperience")
  • period string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • detail string nullable
• associations array (default: [])
• awards array (default: [])
• payment_methods array (default: [])
• consultation string nullable
• answer_count integer nullable
• endorsement_count integer nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Attorney not found (well-formed id with no Avvo profile) Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.