/justia/lawyers/search

POST /api/justia/lawyers/search

Price: 20 credits

Search the Justia attorney directory by practice area within a US state, optionally narrowed to a city. Returns each attorney's name, headline, practice areas, education, years of experience, office address and phone, Justia Lawyer Rating and peer review count, listing tier and profile flags.

How to use it

Search Justia attorneys by practice_area (enum) and state (required), optional city slug. Each result has id, alias (slug), name, profile_url, image, headline, description, practice_areas, education, years_experience, address, phone, justia_rating (0-10), peer_review_count, tier (premium/organic), is_claimed, offers_video_conferencing and has_qa. Fetch a full profile with justia/lawyers.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• practice_area string required — Practice area to browse (e.g. personal-injury) (one of: "agricultural-law", "animal-dog-law", "antitrust-law", "appeals-appellate", "arbitration-mediation", "asbestos-mesothelioma", "bankruptcy", "business-law", "cannabis-marijuana-law", "civil-rights", "collections", "communications-internet-law", "construction-law", "consumer-law", "criminal-law", "divorce", "domestic-violence", "dui-dwi", "education-law", "elder-law", "employment-law", "energy-oil-gas-law", "entertainment-sports-law", "environmental-law", "estate-planning", "family-law", "foreclosure-defense", "government-administrative-law", "health-care-law", "immigration-law", "insurance-claims", "insurance-defense", "intellectual-property", "international-law", "juvenile-law", "landlord-tenant", "legal-malpractice", "maritime-law", "medical-malpractice", "military-law", "municipal-law", "native-american-law", "nursing-home-abuse", "patents", "personal-injury", "probate", "products-liability", "real-estate-law", "securities-law", "social-security-disability", "stockbroker-investment-fraud", "tax-law", "trademarks", "traffic-tickets", "white-collar-crime", "workers-compensation")
• state string required — US state to search within (one of: "alabama", "alaska", "arizona", "arkansas", "california", "colorado", "connecticut", "delaware", "district-of-columbia", "florida", "georgia", "hawaii", "idaho", "illinois", "indiana", "iowa", "kansas", "kentucky", "louisiana", "maine", "maryland", "massachusetts", "michigan", "minnesota", "mississippi", "missouri", "montana", "nebraska", "nevada", "new-hampshire", "new-jersey", "new-mexico", "new-york", "north-carolina", "north-dakota", "ohio", "oklahoma", "oregon", "pennsylvania", "rhode-island", "south-carolina", "south-dakota", "tennessee", "texas", "utah", "vermont", "virginia", "washington", "west-virginia", "wisconsin", "wyoming")
• city string nullable — City slug within the state (e.g. los-angeles); omit to search the whole state
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "JustiaLawyerSearchResult")
• id string nullable
• alias string nullable
• name string nullable
• profile_url string nullable
• image string nullable
• headline string nullable
• description string nullable
• practice_areas array (default: [])
• education array (default: [])
• years_experience integer nullable
• address string nullable
• phone string nullable
• justia_rating number nullable
• peer_review_count integer nullable
• tier string nullable
• is_claimed boolean nullable
• offers_video_conferencing boolean nullable
• has_qa boolean 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 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed 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.