How To Verify Family Lawyers

How to verify and find the right family lawyer We provide the following links to help you find the right family lawyer for you. These are links we consult to verify the family lawyer's licensure and lack of a history of professional discipline. That is one part of the process that we go through on behalf of our clients. After we verify the attorney's bar record and discipline record we have an attorney interview the lawyer and take the further step of talking to their former clients and other attorneys. For example, let's say you have a divorce case and you need some advice as to where joint custody of your children makes sense. We take the further step of ensuring that family lawyers who represent themselves to be family or divorce lawyers actually spend most of their time practicing as family or divorce lawyer. That way they know the effect of joint custody – not just in a theoretical sense but have actual experience with the effects joint custody has on families first hand. It is not their first joint custody case.

Alabama Alabama Lawyers License and Discipline : http://www.alabar.org/oldirectory Alaska Alaska Lawyers License and Discipline: No online resources. Call 907-272-7469. Arizona Arizona Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.azbar.org/LegalResources/findlawyer.cfm Arkansas Arkansas Lawyers License: http://courts.state.ar.us/attorneys/attorney_search.cfm Arkansas Lawyers Discipline: http://courts.state.ar.us/professional_conduct/cpc_decisions.cfm?year=2009 California California Lawyers License: http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member.aspx California Lawyers Discipline: http://www.calbar.ca.gov/state/calbar/calbar_home.jsp $25 fee to get details of discipline order by phone: 213-765-1418 Colorado Colorado Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.coloradosupremecourt.com/Search/AttSearch.asp Connecticut Connecticut Lawyers License: http://www1.ctbar.org/guide.aspx Connecticut Lawyers Discipline: http://www.jud.ct.gov/SGC/decisions/default.htm Delaware Delaware Lawyers License: No online resource. Call (302) 658-5279 Delaware Lawyers Discipline: http://courts.delaware.gov/odc/digest/(pirunk45cedd023qcbsa0gyj)/List.aspx District of Columbia District of Columbia Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.dcbar.org/find_a_member/index.cfm Florida Florida Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.floridabar.org/names.nsf/MESearch?OpenForm lists eligibility to practice law and last 10 years of discipline, if any. Georgia Georgia Lawyers License: http://www.gabar.org/directories/member_directory_search Georgia Lawyers Discipline: http://www.gabar.org/attorney_disciplinary_history/ Hawaii Hawaii Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.hsba.org/lawyerstatus.aspx Idaho Idaho Lawyers License: http://www2.state.id.us/isb/mem/attorney_roster.asp Idaho Lawyers Discipline: http://www2.state.id.us/isb/bc/bc_info_req.htm Illinois Illinois Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.iardc.org/lawyersearch.asp Indiana Indiana Lawyers License: http://hats2.courts.state.in.us/rollatty/roa1_inp.jsp Indiana Lawyers Discipline: http://www.in.gov/judiciary/discipline/ Iowa Iowa Lawyers License and Discipline: https://www.iacourtcommissions.org/icc/SearchLawyer.do Kansas Kansas Lawyers License: No online resource. Call 785.296.2486 Kansas Lawyers Discipline: http://www.kscourts.org/rules-procedures-forms/attorney-discipline/cases.asp Kentucky Kentucky Lawyers License: http://www.kybar.org/Default.aspx?tabid=234 Kentucky Lawyers Discipline: No online resource. Call 502.564.3795. Louisiana Louisiana Lawyers License: http://www.lsba.org/2007MembershipDirectory/MemberSearchResults.asp?Menu=MD Louisiana Lawyers Discipline: http://www.ladb.org/NXT/gateway.dll/?f=templates$fn=default.htm$vid=ladb:ladbview Maine Maine Lawyers License: http://www.mebaroverseers.org/attorney_search.asp Maine Lawyers Discipline: No online resource. Call 207-623-1121 Maryland Maryland Lawyers License: http://www.courts.state.md.us/cpf/attylist.html Maryland Lawyers discipline since 2006: http://www.courts.state.md.us/attygrievance/sanctions.html Massachusetts Massachusetts Lawyers License and Discipline: http://massbbo.org/bbolookup.php Michigan Michigan Lawyers License: http://www.michbar.org/memberdirectory Michigan Lawyers Discipline: http://www.adbmich.org/CHECKER.HTM Minnesota Minnesota Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.courts.state.mn.us/lprb/SearchLawyer.aspx Mississippi Mississippi Lawyers License and Discipline: https://www.msbar.org/lawyerdirectory.php Missouri Missouri Lawyers License: http://members.mobar.org/members/LawyerSearch/GSSearch.aspx Missouri Lawyers Discipline since 2006: http://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=604 Montana Montana Lawyers License: No online resource. Call 406.442.7660 Montana Lawyers Discipline: http://www.montanaodc.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1229 Nebraska Nebraska Lawyers License: http://www.nebar.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=151 Nebraska Lawyers Discipline: http://www.supremecourt.ne.gov/professional-ethics/lawyers/attysanctions.shtml?sub16 Nevada Nevada Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.nvbar.org/findalawyer.asp New Hampshire Nevada Lawyers License: No online resource. Call 603-229-0002 Nevada Lawyers Discipline: No online resource. Call 603-224-5828 New Jersey New Jersey Lawyers License: No online resource. Call New Jersey Board of Bar Examiners, 609-984-2111 New Jersey Lawyers Discipline: http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/oae/index.htm New Mexico New Mexico Lawyers License: http://www.nmbar.org/findattorney/attorneyfinder.aspx New Mexico Lawyers Discipline: No online resource. Call (505) 842-5781. New York New York Lawyers License: http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/attorney/AttorneySearch This site gets you status. To get discipline record, you must contact the department in which the attorney is admitted. To contact correct department check: http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/appellatedivisions.shtml or http://www.nycourts.gov/ip/attorneygrievance/complaints_attorney.shtml North Carolina North Carolina Lawyers License: http://www.ncbar.com/members/member_directory.asp North Carolina Lawyers Discipline: http://www.ncbar.com/discipline North Dakota North Carolina Lawyers License: http://www.ndcourts.com/lawyers North Carolina Lawyers Discipline: No online resource. See above website generally or call 701-328-2221 Ohio Ohio Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/AttySvcs/AttyReg/Public_AttorneyInformation.asp Oklahoma Oklahoma Lawyers License: http://www.oklahomafindalawyer.com/FindALawyer Oklahoma Lawyers Discipline: http://www.okbar.org/members/gencounsel/default.htm or call (405) 416-7000 Oregon Oregon Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.osbar.org/members/start.asp Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.padisciplinaryboard.org/pa_attorney_search.php Rhode Island Rhode Island Lawyers License: http://ribar.com/members/members.asp Rhode Island Lawyers Discipline: No online resource. Call 401-222-3270 South Carolina South Carolina Lawyers License with record of discipline: http://www.scbar.org South Dakota South Dakota Lawyers License and Discipline: No online resource, but website http://www.sdbar.org/contactus/contactus.shtm provides contact information South Dakota Lawyers License: Call (605) 224-7554 or (800) 952-2333 South Dakota Lawyers Discipline: Disciplinary Board c/o State Bar of South Dakota, 222 East Capitol Avenue, Pierre, SD 57501 Tennessee Tennessee Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.tbpr.org/Consumers/AttorneySearch Texas Texas Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.texasbar.com/Template.cfm?Section=Member_Directory Enter name of lawyer, discipline within the last 10 years posted. Utah Utah Lawyers License: http://www.utahbar.org/forms/members_directory_search.html Utah Lawyers Discipline: http://webster.utahbar.org/barjournal/bar_discipline Vermont Vermont Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.vermontjudiciary.org/LC/default.aspx Virginia Virginia Lawyers License: http://206.113.151.134/attsearch/search.aspx Virginia Lawyers Discipline: http://www.vsb.org/attorney/attSearch.asp Washington Washington Lawyers License: http://pro.wsba.org Washington Lawyers Discipline: http://pro.wsba.org/PublicDisciplineSearch.asp West Virginia West Virginia Lawyers License: Website down as of 7/23/09. The West Virginia State Bar, 2006 Kanawha Boulevard, East, Charleston, WV 25311-2204 Phone – 304.558.2456 West Virginia Lawyers Discipline: See above Wisconsin Wisconsin Lawyers License: http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Lawyer_Directory Wisconsin Lawyers Discipline: http://www.wicourts.gov/about/organization/offices/olr.htm Wyoming Wyoming Lawyers License and Discipline: http://www.wyomingbar.org/directory/index.html?-session=wybar_user:60E810820c54d13CF3mtLlA7EE37