Verify a Ohio Attorney license

liveOH 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 Ohio Attorney license verification works

A Attorney in Ohio is licensed by the OH 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_by admission_date law_school job_title employer address city state zip county business_phone disciplines sanctions ar_disciplines previous_names languages discipline_detail.

Board note: oh_bar live 2026-11-04 (plain httpx: GET landing csrf-token → POST Ajax.ashx action=SearchAttorney attyReg=|firstName=&lastName=, GetAttyInfo regNumber=, GetAttyDiscipline; needs X-CSRF-TOKEN + Referer/Origin + form content-type, myLanguages=[]). Numbers accept leading zeros; no DOB so name-only >1 hit = 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 Ohio Attorney license by API

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

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