Verify a Massachusetts Attorney license

liveMA 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 Massachusetts Attorney license verification works

A Attorney in Massachusetts is licensed by the MA 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 admitted public_discipline insurance_status law_firm address phone.

Board note: ma_bar live 2026-11-04 (plain httpx replay of the Experience-site Aura call: GET /s/attorney-lookup for fwuid + loaded map, POST /s/sfsites/aura ApexAction AttorneyLookupController_LWC.getAttorneys, aura.token=null). Unknown bboNumber → not_found; discipline is a flag (decisions on decisions.massbbo.org); no DOB so name-only >1 row = ambiguous_match. Fallback client must be the repo's rung-1 client (a bare httpx client gets a shell without an Aura context); canary passes via tools/run_canaries.py.

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 Massachusetts Attorney license by API

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

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