Verify a Maine Attorney license

liveME 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 Maine Attorney license verification works

A Attorney in Maine is licensed by the ME 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 first_admitted admitted_maine firm address phone fax website law_school other_jurisdictions city_state county zip.

Board note: Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar Attorney Directory (Maine.gov Perl CGI): plain httpx; GET attorney_directory_details.pl?bar_num=<6 digits zero-padded> for a number (empty template = unknown); name search POST attorney_directory.pl → 302 → attorney_directory_results.pl (session cookie, ?page=N). Registration Status (Active Resident/Non-Resident, Inactive, Suspended, Disbarred, Resigned…), admission dates, law school. Public discipline records not shown online. ME-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 Maine Attorney license by API

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

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