Verify a Washington Attorney license

liveWA 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 Washington Attorney license verification works

A Attorney in Washington is licensed by the WA 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 license_type status eligible_to_practice admit_date address email phone private_practice has_insurance volunteer_groups discipline.

Board note: wa_bar live 2026-11-04 (plain httpx GET: LegalDirectory.aspx?ShowSearchResults=TRUE&FirstName=<first>%&LastName= grid → LegalDirectory/LegalProfile.aspx?Usr_ID=<12-digit zero-padded license no>; a single-hit name search redirects to the profile; first request may bounce through the Personify SSO handshake). Profile prints License Type/Status, Eligible To Practice, WSBA Admit Date; discipline docs live in the separate Discipline Notice directory; no DOB so name-only >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 Washington Attorney license by API

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

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