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Advocate Enrolment Verification API

Confirm that an advocate is enrolled, the bar council and year of enrolment, and whether the enrolment is in good standing before you engage counsel or list legal professionals.

Response
Real-time
Inputs
1 required · 1 optional
Consent
Not required
Billing
Per successful call
POST /v1/advocate-verification
Sandbox · Production
  1. Your application sends

    • Enrolment number*
    • Advocate's name
  2. Profiden API

    Validates the request, queries the source, normalises the answer and logs the call. Billed only on success.

  3. Verified with

    Authoritative source

  4. You receive

    • Enrolled name
    • Bar council
    • Enrolment date
    • Enrolment status
advocate-verification Full reference

What the Advocate Enrolment Verification API does

Send the enrolment number (for example MAH/1234/2015) and receive the enrolled name, bar council, enrolment date and status from the council register.

Benefits of the Advocate Enrolment Verification API

Verify a lawyer's enrolment number with the state bar council.

Register-backed

Answers come from the council register, not a self-declared certificate.

Panel hygiene

Re-verify empanelled counsel periodically with the same call.

Use cases

Advocate Enrolment Verification API use cases

Where the Advocate Enrolment Verification API is typically called, and what it settles there.

Corporate legal panels

Verify enrolment before empanelment.

Legal-tech marketplaces

List only enrolled advocates.

How the Advocate Enrolment Verification API works

Request and response details, environments and a ready-to-import collection are in the developer console at console.profiden.com.

01

Authenticate

Call with your organisation API key. Sandbox and production use the same contract.

02

Send the inputs

Enrolment number as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.

03

We verify at source

Profiden queries the authoritative record, normalises the answer and logs the request.

04

Act on the result

A verification status plus the fields listed above, in the same response envelope as every other API.

Built for the DPDP Act 2023

Consent recorded · Payloads not retained beyond your retention window · Every request traceable

Encryption in transit and at rest
Data processed in India
Per-request audit trail
Masked identifiers in responses

Advocate Enrolment Verification API: frequently asked questions

What teams ask before adding the Advocate Enrolment Verification API to their integration.

Coverage follows the councils that publish searchable rolls; the response states when a council is unsupported.

Related APIs

APIs that usually run alongside the Advocate Enrolment Verification API, on the same key.

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Get access to the Advocate Enrolment Verification API

Tell us your use case and expected volume. We set up the organisation, share per-call pricing and issue keys.