The Justia Lawyer Directory is a free online resource that provides detailed profiles on lawyers, law firms, and non-profit legal service and legal aid organizations in the United States.
Any lawyer or organization can have a free full profile on the Justia Lawyer Directory.
Start your search for an attorney on the Justia Lawyer Directory home page. In the lawyers search form, enter a legal issue or the name of a lawyer or law firm and the geographic location and click the search button to see a list of local attorneys, law firms, and non-profit legal service organizations that meet your search criteria. If we have your approximate location it will be pre-populated into the on second text box in the lawyers search form (you may change it if you wish to).
You can also browse attorneys. Again, if we have your approximate location it will be shown on the top of the Webpage and you can click on the practice areas given on the page for a list of local attorneys, law firms, and non-profit legal service organizations servicing your locality.
If the location is not correct, use the tabs on the home page to browse our directory by State or Metro Area. Or you may use the map on the right hand side to select a location to search. You can also try clicking on the "Reset Location" link under the map to have us attempt to locate your current location.
The Justia Lawyer Directory uses a technology known as IP Geolocation to determine your general location. We do this so that when you visit the site, we can direct you to attorneys in your area as quickly as possible. We do not store your location on our servers, or use this information to identify you. We only use it to simplify and enhance your experience with the Justia Lawyer Directory.
The Justia Lawyer Directory lists thousands of educational and non-profit legal aid and service organizations nationwide that provide free or low cost legal services. If you are only interested in these low cost legal service organizations, click on the "Legal Aid & Services" tab on any listings page to limit your search to just these organizations.
There are several different ways to contact lawyers, law firms, and legal aid & service organizations listed in the Justia Lawyer Directory:
The Justia Lawyer Directory currently allows United States licensed attorneys to provide a free full profile of their practice law. If you have an existing profile in the Justia Lawyer Directory, you can claim and update your profile from your lawyer profile page. If you do not have an existing profile in the Lawyer Directory, you can register for a new profile on the sign up page.
No. There is no fee be listed and have a full profile in the Justia Lawyer Directory. However, those who provide and support organizations that put free legal information online will receive higher rankings on the listings pages. You can get a higher ranking in a variety of ways that include providing free information yourself, such as writing a legal blog that is editorially accepted into Justia's BlawgSearch.com or with a financial contribution to an organization, such as the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, that provides free legal information online.
The Justia Lawyer Directory provides free profiles to lawyers throughout the United States.
Registered lawyers may:
You can claim your attorney profile by finding your profile and then clicking the "Claim and Update your profile" link on the profile page (this link is on the right hand side of the profile page) OR if you can't find your profile in the Justia Lawyer Directory, you may register as a new attorney by clicking on the "Get Listed" link (located on the top right of every page).
The list shown are unclaimed profiles that may belong to you. If one of these profiles is yours, please claim it instead of registering a new profile. Otherwise follow the "register for a new attorney profile" link.
These options are different ways to verify your identity against the information already in the Lawyer Directory. Currently, the available methods are "Claim by EMail", "Claim by Phone", and "Claim by Fax". Claiming by EMail will send a validation email to the email listed. Claiming by phone will allow you to enter a validation number during a phone call to the phone number listed. Claiming by fax will allow you to fax Justia proof of your identity and license to practice law.
From the "Claim Profile" page, select the email you wish to use for claiming. The full email address is partially hidden in order to protect you from spammers getting your email address, you will see the first letter of the email address and the domain of the email address. Once you have the email selected, click the "Claim by EMail" button. An email will be sent to that email address with a verification code and a claim link. From there, you may enter the verification code on the next page or click the link in your email to verify your identity. Once verified, the page will load a registration form where you can continue with the profile registration and editing process.
From the "Claim Profile" page, select the phone number you wish to use for claiming. Please be sure that you are able to take a call at this number immediately. Select the phone number to call and click the "Claim by Phone" button. Click the "Call Phone Number" button and the Justia Lawyer Directory will call the listed phone number. Enter the 5 digit code when prompted and enter pound (#) key when finished. Once verified, the page will automatically load a registration form where you can continue with the profile registration and editing process.
From the "Claim Profile" page, click the "Claim by Fax" button. Complete the registration form, which will be converted into a downloadable PDF. Print, sign, and fax this form along with the required documentation to the number listed on the form. Upon receipt of your fax, the Justia Lawyer Directory team will review and process your request. Upon acceptance, you will receive an email notification to the administration email address provided in the registration form.
If one or more of the options to claim your profile are not present, it is because we do not have that information in our database. However, the Claim by Fax option will always be available to unclaimed profiles.
Once we have received your fax, we may need a few business days to review and approve your profile claim or registration. We will notify you by email once we have approved your claim or registration.
During the registration process, you will be asked for a username and password. We will also collect information regarding your email, full name, primary address, and primary phone number.
During the registration process, you will be asked to create a username and password. We will also collect your email, full name, primary address, and primary phone number. Once you fill out the online registration form, it will be converted to a downloadable PDF, which you can print and fax to Justia, along with documents proving your identity and license to practice law. Upon receipt of your fax, the Justia Lawyer Directory team will review and process your request. Once accepted, the Justia Lawyer Directory will send an email notification to the administration email address provided in the registration form.
The Justia Lawyer Directory stores two email addresses.
We use the administrative email to contact you regarding your Justia Lawyer Directory account, for example, to respond to password reset requests.
The contact email address is used for mail being sent from your profile by other users, for example, a potential client seeking to contact you through the Justia Lawyer Directory.
The administrative email address is required, the contact email address is optional. Neither email address is publicly viewable on the Justia Lawyer Directory Website. One email address can be used for both the administrative email and contact email.
To login, click the Attorney Login link at the top right of every page. Use the login and password you picked when you claimed your profile. If you lose your password you may reset it at the password reset page.
If you would like to update information in your lawyer profile, you must first claim your profile. Once your profile has been claimed, you may edit all information on your profile by following the instructions below.
The Justia Lawyer Directory team will not respond to requests by email or phone to change information listed in unclaimed profiles on the directory. This is to ensure that only lawyers who own the profile can change the information within it.
Once logged in and you have created your profile, you can edit your profile simply by visiting it. To visit your profile click the My Account link at the top right of any page. Editing is done on the profile page by clicking the special editing icons next to each profile section. Common editing icons are: 
Edit Item, 
Add Item, and 
Delete Item .
If you do not want your lawyer profile to be visible, you must first claim your profile. On your profile page, click on the "Claim and Update your profile" link at the top right of your profile and complete the claim process. Once your profile has been claimed, you may either disable or delete your profile from the Lawyer Directory.
To hide or delete a profile, click on the "Administrative Settings" tab in your profile. If you select Disable Profile", your profile will remain hidden until you re-enable it. You may also permanently delete your profile. Data contained in a deleted profile cannot be restored. The difference between disabling and deleting your profile is described further below.
Both Disabling and Deleting your profile remove it from the public listings in the Justia Lawyer Directory.
Disabling your profile is a reversible action. It allows you to hide your profile until you decide you want to show it again. You can still update your hidden profile, but it is not visible to the general public. You can make a disabled profile visible on the Justia Lawyer Directory by re-enabling it.
Deleting your profile will remove your information from the Justia Lawyer Directory permanently and you will no longer be able to login, edit or update your profile. If you want to re-add your profile after deleting it, you will have to create a brand new profile from scratch.
After you logged in, click on the My Profile link in the upper right-hand corner to see your accounts page. On your accounts page, click on the change password link.
You should upload a 180 pixels (w) by 240 pixels (h) attorney photo. If you upload a photo with different dimensions, the Lawyer Directory will rescale the photo to fit within these dimensions. We accept photos in JPG and GIF formats.
Name changes must be made by the Justia Lawyer Directory support team. You may send your request to change your name by clicking the Contact Justia link at the bottom of any page.
The Justia Lawyer Directory allows users to view all listings for a particular practice area and/or location. A user selects a tab on a listings page to filter the list to show only legal aid and service organizations, law firms, or lawyers.
Under all listings, the Lawyer Directory will first display local legal aid and service organizations. These organizations usually provide free or low cost legal services and may be affiliated with a local court, law school, or bar association.
Next, the Lawyer Directory will list matching law firms and lawyers based on a number of factors, including our relationship with the lawyer or law firm (eg are they a Justia Website client); their contribution to providing free legal information online through blogging, wikis or other means; their financial support of organizations that put up free information, like Cornell's Legal Information Institute or Nolo.com; the status of the lawyer profile (i.e., whether it has been claimed or not) and the completeness of a lawyer profile (more complete profiles will show up higher).
We will be offering additional ways for lawyers to contribute to the community in the near future. We will credit lawyers who help the community by writing providing free legal information online or who support other free legal information websites with higher rankings in the Lawyer Directory.
It is free for any US lawyer to have a full profile in the Justia Lawyer Directory, even if they are not clients and from organizations that are hostile to free information (you know who you are :). Only the ordering of the results are influenced by these factors.
The Justia Lawyer Directory displays matching lawyer profiles on the listing pages. The order of the profiles depends on a number of factors. The fastest way to move above many of the lawyer profiles in our directory is to claim your profile.
Justia works with individuals and organizations that provide free legal information to the online community. Our directory highlights lawyers who support these organizations or who themselves put up free information (such as by way of blogging).
Note: These badges and support levels only impact the placement order on the Justia Lawyer Directory listing pages. They are not required to be in the directory or to have a full profile in the Justia Lawyer Directory itself (which is free :).
Justia's Website clients receive prominent placements in the Justia Lawyer Directory. Their business with us provides us the resources to publish more free legal information online. Learn more about Justia's Law Firm Website Design and Legal Marketing Services.
The Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School is a leading provider of free public legal information. Attorneys can obtain one of three levels of LII badges (bronze, silver & gold) on their lawyer profiles by financially supporting the LII. Supporters will also receive a higher placement listing in the Cornell LII Lawyer Directory and the Justia Lawyer Directory. Lawyers can support the Legal Information Institute and obtain LII Badges here.
Nolo is the leading provider of consumer and small business legal information and has their own separate lawyer directory. Attorneys with the "Verified by Nolo" badge have enhanced placements in the Nolo directory, have taken the Nolo pledge of service and had their licensing credentials checked. Visit Nolo's Lawyer Directory to sign up for their directory services.
Lawyers can contribute free legal information and commentary to the online community through blogging. If you publish a blawg (law blog) and Justia's editors have accepted it into our BlawgSearch.com directory and search engine, we will reward you with the BlawgSearch badge. You can submit your blawg for consideration in BlawgSearch here (it's free :).
In order to provide the most flexibility for both our subscription system, and for your available payment methods, the Justia Lawyer Directory currently accepts PayPal for Badge Subscriptions. PayPal allows you to pay for your Badge Subscriptions through Credit Card, Checking Account, or through PayPal account balances, and keeps your financial information safe an under your own control.
We do not accept payment for Badge Subscriptions through any means other then PayPal at this time.
Payments received for Badge Subscriptions are relayed by Justia to the affiliate organization that the badge represents, as such all payments are final. You may cancel your subscription at any time, and once you do so you will not receive any more charges. All badge cancellations are effective on the date that the subscription would be up for renewal, and badges will remain on your profile for the full duration of your current subscription term.
