Best Lawyers Scraper - Peer-Reviewed Attorney Directory
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Best Lawyers Scraper - Peer-Reviewed Attorney Directory
Scrape attorney profiles from BestLawyers.com, the oldest peer-reviewed legal ranking. Extract names, firms, practice areas, contact info, education, awards, and recognition years. Filter by US state and city. Covers 150+ practice areas across 75+ countries.
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Best Lawyers Scraper — Peer-Reviewed Attorney Directory
Scrapes attorney profiles from BestLawyers.com, the oldest peer-reviewed legal ranking. Returns names, firms, practice areas, contact details, education, and awards as clean JSON. Filter by US state and city.
Best Lawyers has ranked attorneys by peer review since 1981. Inclusion is the kind of credential firms put on their homepage. This scraper turns that directory into structured data — point it at a state, optionally narrow to a city, and it pulls every recognized lawyer with the fields that matter for legal lead generation and competitive research.
Listing pages give you name, firm, practice areas, location, and recognition year. Flip on profile enrichment and it visits each lawyer's page for phone, address, education, awards, and website.
What You Can Do With Best Lawyers Data
- Build a legal lead list — recognized attorneys by state, city, and practice area, with phone and address.
- Map a practice area — pull every "Lawyer of the Year" and recognized attorney in family law, personal injury, M&A, or any of 150+ areas.
- Research a firm — group lawyers by firm to size up a competitor's bench.
- Enrich a CRM — match names to firms, education, and contact details.
- Track recognition —
recognized_sinceand theawardslist show who's been ranked and for how long.
Who Uses This
Legal recruiters and headhunters, law firm marketers, legal-tech products, litigation-funding analysts, and B2B sales teams selling into the legal vertical. If your buyer is a ranked attorney, this is the list.
Input
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
state | US state to search (required) — all 50 states plus DC. |
city | City slug to narrow results (e.g. los-angeles, chicago). Optional; empty crawls the whole state. |
enrichProfiles | Visit each profile page for phone, address, education, awards, and website. On by default. |
maxItems | Cap the profile count. 0 means unlimited. |
Output
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
lawyer_name | Attorney full name. |
firm_name | Law firm name. |
practice_areas | Areas the lawyer is recognized in. |
city / state_or_region / country | Where they practice. |
recognized_since | Year first recognized by Best Lawyers. |
awards | Best Lawyers awards, including Lawyer of the Year. |
phone / street_address / postal_code | Office contact details (enriched). |
education | Law schools attended (enriched). |
website | Attorney or firm website (enriched). |
description | Bio summary from the profile. |
photo_url | Headshot URL. |
profile_url / firm_profile_url | Links back to the Best Lawyers pages. |
Three dataset views ship with it — Lawyer Overview, Contact Details, and Full Profile — so you can export just what you need.
How It Works
- Pick a state, and optionally a city and practice scope.
- The scraper walks the Best Lawyers listing pages and collects every recognized attorney.
- With enrichment on, it visits each profile for the full contact and credential record.
- Results land in your dataset — export as JSON, CSV, or Excel.
FAQ
How do I scrape Best Lawyers? Set a state (and optionally a city), run the actor, and it returns recognized attorney profiles with firm, practice areas, and contact details. No login required.
Can I get attorney phone numbers and addresses?
Yes — keep enrichProfiles on. The scraper visits each profile page for phone, street address, postal code, education, and website.
How do I find Lawyer of the Year recognitions?
The awards field carries every Best Lawyers award on a profile, including Lawyer of the Year, alongside recognized_since.
Can I filter by practice area?
Best Lawyers organizes listings by location; the scraper returns each lawyer's full practice_areas list so you can filter the output to family law, personal injury, corporate, or any area you need.
Need More Features?
Need a different state structure, extra fields, or another legal directory scraped? File an issue or get in touch.
