Verify a Hawaii Attorney license

liveHI State Bar / Supreme Court attorney roll · profession key attorney

Live. We query the board directly for every check and the nightly canary is passing.

How Hawaii Attorney license verification works

A Attorney in Hawaii is licensed by the HI State Bar / Supreme Court attorney roll. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: bar_number name status admission_date law_school organization email phone work_address county_of_practice licenses positions permalink.

Board note: HSBA Member Directory (SailAMX + Typesense): GET /member-directory hands every visitor a short-lived search-only Typesense key in the instaSearch config; POST /search-api/multi_search with filter_by JD Number (exact, zero-padded 6 digits) or q=last name. License Status (Active, Government, Judge, Pro Hac Vice, Inactive Voluntary, Suspended - Discipline/Non Payment, Disbarred, Deceased), Hawaii Bar Admission Date, Law School, contact. HI-BAR live 2026-11-04.

What a Attorney license check returns

Field check	Passes when
`license_number`	Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
`name`	Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
`license_type`	The record is a Attorney license, strictly (no near-miss types)
`status`	The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
`expires`	Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
`disciplinary_actions`	Recorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Verify a Hawaii Attorney license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "HI", "profession": "attorney", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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