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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. emver 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
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Overview

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

Why teams use 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

Where it's called

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 it works

Four steps, one response envelope

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

  1. 01

    Authenticate

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

  2. 02

    Send the inputs

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

  3. 03

    We verify at source

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

  4. 04

    Act on the result

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

Privacy and security built in

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

FAQ

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 that run alongside it

Usually called with the Advocate Enrolment Verification API, on the same key.

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