Verify a Kentucky Attorney license

liveKY 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 Kentucky Attorney license verification works

A Attorney in Kentucky is licensed by the KY 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 member_type admission_date organization address phone email practice_areas former_member_reason public_discipline_history disbarred suspended_disciplinary suspended_dues suspended_cle.

Board note: ky_bar live 2026-11-04 (plain httpx POST, ClearVantage Web 5 lawyer locator at kybar.org/cv5). Name-only search (first/middle/last); no bar-number field and the card prints no bar number (claimed number recorded as not checkable); member type + Date of Admission + former-member flags + public discipline; no DOB so >1 card = ambiguous_match (middle name narrows)

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 Kentucky Attorney license by API

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

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