Verify a Tennessee Attorney license

liveTN 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 Tennessee Attorney license verification works

A Attorney in Tennessee is licensed by the TN 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 status_definition address email office_county licensed_since law_school public_information discipline_releases names_used.

Board note: tn_bar live 2026-11-04 (plain httpx GET, Rails). Profile /attorneys/<6-digit BPR> (404 = not found); name search GET /attorneys/search?attorney[first_name]&attorney[last_name]; Public Information + Public Discipline release tables parsed with PDF links; no DOB so name-only >1 row = ambiguous_match. Fallback client must be the repo's rung-1 client (a bare httpx client gets 403); canary passes via tools/run_canaries.py.

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 Tennessee Attorney license by API

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

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