Verify a Illinois Attorney license

liveIL 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 Illinois Attorney license verification works

A Attorney in Illinois is licensed by the IL 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: name registration_status authorized_to_practice date_admitted registered_address registered_phone registered_email discipline proceedings attorney_number.

Board note: il_bar live 2026-11-04 (plain httpx: GET /Lawyer/Search token → POST /Lawyer/SearchResults → POST /Lawyer/SearchGrid?rows=100 → POST /Lawyer/Details). Name-only search: the ARDC prints no attorney number except inside a discipline record (Case Research form), so a claimed number is match=None on a clean record; supplied middle name narrows same-name hits; no DOB so >1 hit = ambiguous_match

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 Illinois Attorney license by API

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

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