Verify a North Carolina Attorney license

liveNC 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 North Carolina Attorney license verification works

A Attorney in North Carolina is licensed by the NC 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 honorific member_type status status_definition date_admitted status_date judicial_district board_certified_in address city state zip work_phone email actions.

Board note: nc_bar live 2026-11-04 (plain httpx, ASP.NET WebForms + session: GET search.aspx → POST txtLicNum|txtLast/txtFirst → 302 results.aspx → viewer.aspx?ID=; no match answers the form with 'Error! No match was found'). Discipline = gvActions table (case number, action, order PDF link); 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 North Carolina Attorney license by API

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

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