SYSTEM all green source martindale.com queue 18,492 profiles p99 latency 215ms dataflirt.com · scraper/martindale-com
RUN - 42 active pipelines - martindale.com live

Legal directory data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract attorney profiles, firm details, peer reviews, client ratings, and practice areas from Martindale. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Attorneys extracted
1.2M /month
Firm updates
45K /week
Review records
320K /run
Active pipelines
42
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from martindale.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Attorney Profiles objects from martindale.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

attorney_idfull_namefirm_namefirm_idtitleav_ratingpeer_ratingclient_ratingpractice_areasbar_admissionseducationlanguagesprofile_urlimage_url
attorney_profiles
● 200 OK
"attorney_id": "AT-8472910",
"full_name": "Jane Doe",
"firm_name": "Smith & Associates LLP",
"av_rating": "AV Preeminent",
"peer_rating": 4.9,
"client_rating": 4.8,
"practice_areas": "['Corporate Law', 'Mergers & Acquisitions']",
"profile_url": "https://www.martindale.com/attorney/jane-doe-8472910/"
# attorney_idfull_namefirm_namefirm_idtitleav_rating
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Complete list of extractable fields for Law Firms objects from martindale.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

firm_idfirm_namesize_categoryfounded_yearheadquartersoffice_locationskey_attorneyspractice_areaswebsitephone_numbermartindale_urldescription
law_firms
● 200 OK
"firm_id": "FM-102938",
"firm_name": "Smith & Associates LLP",
"size_category": "51-200 attorneys",
"founded_year": 1985,
"headquarters": "New York, NY",
"website": "https://www.smithassociates.com",
"phone_number": "+1-212-555-0199",
"martindale_url": "https://www.martindale.com/organization/smith-associates-llp-102938/"
# firm_idfirm_namesize_categoryfounded_yearheadquartersoffice_locations
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Complete list of extractable fields for Peer Reviews objects from martindale.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idattorney_idoverall_ratinglegal_knowledge_scoreanalytical_capability_scorejudgment_scorecommunication_scoreethics_scorereview_datereviewer_typereview_text
peer_reviews
● 200 OK
"review_id": "PR-993821",
"attorney_id": "AT-8472910",
"overall_rating": 5.0,
"legal_knowledge_score": 5.0,
"ethics_score": 5.0,
"review_date": "2025-11-12",
"reviewer_type": "Private Practice Attorney",
"review_text": "Exceptional capability in complex M&A transactions."
# review_idattorney_idoverall_ratinglegal_knowledge_scoreanalytical_capability_scorejudgment_score
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2
3

Complete list of extractable fields for Client Reviews objects from martindale.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idattorney_idoverall_ratingreview_datehired_attorneyconsultation_typepractice_areareview_titlereview_bodyrecommended
client_reviews
● 200 OK
"review_id": "CR-448291",
"attorney_id": "AT-8472910",
"overall_rating": 4.5,
"review_date": "2025-09-04",
"hired_attorney": true,
"practice_area": "Corporate Law",
"review_title": "Highly professional and responsive",
"recommended": true
# review_idattorney_idoverall_ratingreview_datehired_attorneyconsultation_type
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from martindale.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordlocationpositionattorney_idfull_namefirm_nameav_ratingyears_activeprofile_urlsponsored_placementscraped_at
search_results
● 200 OK
"keyword": "Corporate Lawyer",
"location": "New York, NY",
"position": 3,
"attorney_id": "AT-8472910",
"full_name": "Jane Doe",
"av_rating": "AV Preeminent",
"sponsored_placement": false,
"scraped_at": "2026-01-15T08:30:00Z"
# keywordlocationpositionattorney_idfull_namefirm_name
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Capabilities

Extract the definitive legal catalogue

Our Martindale scraper parses complex attorney profiles, firm hierarchies, and proprietary rating systems with JavaScript rendering and bot circumvention built in.

Full Attorney Profiles

Extract education history, bar admissions, practice areas, and contact details for individual lawyers.

Law Firm Hierarchies

Map attorneys to their respective firms, capturing office locations, size categories, and firm-wide practice areas.

AV Preeminent Ratings

Capture Martindale's proprietary AV Preeminent, Distinguished, and Notable peer rating tiers.

Peer & Client Reviews

Parse detailed review scores across legal knowledge, ethics, communication, and analytical capabilities.

Search Rank Tracking

Monitor organic and sponsored positions for specific legal keywords and geographic locations.

Location Normalisation

Standardise office addresses, phone numbers, and regional bar admissions across the entire catalogue.

Change Detection

Track rating upgrades, firm changes, or new bar admissions over time with hash-based diffing.

High-Volume Execution

Process tens of thousands of profiles daily using distributed crawler infrastructure.

Anti-Bot Circumvention

Bypass strict directory rate limits using residential proxies and humanised request patterns.

// engagement pipeline

From target list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide geographic regions, practice areas, or specific firm URLs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and bot bypass mechanisms for martindale.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and sample profile reviews before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Martindale pipeline handles the hard parts

Legal directories deploy aggressive scraping countermeasures. Here is how we maintain stable data extraction.

pipeline-monitor · martindale.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation and fingerprint spoofing

Martindale uses advanced bot protection to block automated traffic. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and request timing trained on standard user behaviour.

JavaScript rendering
Playwright execution for dynamic content

Review pagination and contact detail reveals often require JavaScript execution. We run full Playwright browser sessions to trigger lazy-loads and hydrate dynamic components.

Data hierarchy
Mapping attorneys to firms

The relationship between individual attorney profiles and master law firm records is complex. We maintain relational mappings to ensure you receive a normalised, queryable dataset.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what changes

For massive directory catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost and downstream processing load.

Monitoring
24/7 pipeline health checks

Every run emits structured logs. We alert on null-rate spikes, schema drift, and coverage drops, adjusting selectors before you miss a data delivery.

Applications

Who uses Martindale data and how

Teams across industries use martindale.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Legal Tech Data Enrichment

Software vendors enrich their internal CRM and user databases with verified bar admissions, practice areas, and AV ratings.

02
B2B Lead Generation

Service providers targeting the legal sector extract firm sizes, key partners, and contact details to optimise lead routing.

03
Competitive Intelligence

Law firms monitor competitor headcount changes, new partner acquisitions, and practice area expansion.

04
Expert Witness Sourcing

Litigation support teams identify highly rated attorneys in niche practice areas for consultation or referral networks.

05
Directory Syndication

Secondary legal directories and regional bar associations cross-reference their membership records against Martindale data.

06
Market Research

Analysts track the geographic distribution of specific legal specialities to identify underserved markets.

Why DataFlirt

"Martindale remains the definitive system of record for legal peer reviews and attorney credentials, but extracting that hierarchy requires a highly resilient pipeline."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Martindale scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA handling, and daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Martindale scraper technical capabilities

Everything supported by our martindale.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for review pagination and dynamic reveals
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha and CapSolver integration
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs rotated per request to avoid IP bans
Supported
Attorney-to-Firm mapping
Relational linking between individual lawyers and their parent firms
Supported
Review extraction
Full text and sub-category scores for both peer and client reviews
Supported
Search rank tracking
Position tracking for specific practice areas and geographic queries
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diffing to emit only updated records
Supported
Premium firm dashboard analytics
Internal traffic and profile view metrics gated behind firm login
Partial
Direct messaging portal
Automated submission of lead contact forms through the platform
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Martindale pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and interaction flows. Combined via custom middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for direct analysis
XLS
Excel compatible format for business teams
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints for querying extracted data
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About martindale.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Martindale legal?

Scraping publicly available information from Martindale is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated attorney, firm, and review data. We do not extract personal data behind logins or violate GDPR. Clients should review platform terms and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle Martindale's anti-bot systems?

We use residential ISP proxies, Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. We monitor for rate limits in real time and trigger pool rotation automatically.

Can you extract AV Preeminent ratings?

Yes. We capture the exact rating tier, numerical scores, and the breakdown of peer versus client ratings for every attorney profile.

How fresh is the data?

Full catalogue refreshes at weekly or monthly cadences complete within defined windows depending on volume. Targeted tracking for specific firms or keywords can run daily.

Do you link attorneys to their law firms?

Yes. We extract the hierarchical relationship, ensuring every attorney record contains the parent firm ID and firm name, allowing for relational database mapping.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined list of regions or practice areas. For full-site extraction, we price based on compute volume and delivery frequency. Contact us for a scoped quote.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 profiles or 50 search result pages as part of the pre-engagement scoping process to validate schema fit and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=martindale.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a targeted list of corporate lawyers in New York or a continuous feed of national firm updates, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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