Verify a Virginia Attorney license

liveVA 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 Virginia Attorney license verification works

A Attorney in Virginia is licensed by the VA 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 member_class member_type status city state zip publicly_disciplined current_suspensions date_of_license.

Board note: va_bar live 2026-11-04 (plain httpx, iMIS/Telerik grid: GET directory → POST Sheet0 Input0 Bar ID | Input1/Input2 first/last + __EVENTTARGET SubmitButton; pages via ?…Grid1ChangePage=N in session). Grid-only source: class/type/status, public-discipline Yes/No, current suspensions, date of license; Bar IDs zero-padded to 5; 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 Virginia Attorney license by API

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

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