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Avvo

Avvo API

avvo.com

A documented partner API (v4) exists at api.avvo.com covering lawyer lookup, search, specialties, and reviews. Access is granted by emailing partner@avvo.com with quote-driven pricing and no self-serve signup. No webhooks, sandbox, rate-limit docs, or maintained SDKs.

Last verified: August 2026LegalNO MCP
API GRADE
B
VERIFIED AUG 2026

SCORECARD

ExistenceGOODA documented REST API at api.avvo.com/api/4 with a public reference hosted at avvo.github.io/api-doc.
AccessPOORPartner approval via email to partner@avvo.com; pricing is undisclosed, quote-driven, and there is no self-serve signup.
CoverageGOODLawyer lookup and bulk retrieval, natural-language search, practice-area taxonomy, and review reads plus lawyer responses.
AuthGOODOAuth2 bearer tokens for third-party apps, with short-lived JWTs (about 20 minutes) for lawyer-scoped operations.
Docs & DXPOORNo sandbox, rate-limit docs, SLA, or status page; the only SDK is a Ruby client unmaintained for years.
StabilityGOODThe core API is versioned (v4, with v5 for JWT-secured endpoints), though no deprecation policy is published.
MCPNONENo official or community MCP server was found for Avvo. The platform offers a REST API, but no MCP integration exists in public registries or vendor documentation. VERIFIED 2026-08
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Avvo scores B on Supergood's API Report Card. A documented partner API (v4) exists at api.avvo.com covering lawyer lookup, search, specialties, and reviews. Access is granted by emailing partner@avvo.com with quote-driven pricing and no self-serve signup. No webhooks, sandbox, rate-limit docs, or maintained SDKs.

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API access is partner-gated via email to partner@avvo.com, no self-serve developer signup that immediately returns production credentials avvo.com
No public webhooks for new leads, profile changes, new reviews, peer endorsements or rating updates, partners must poll avvo.github.io
No published rate-limit documentation, no SLA and no public status page for the Avvo API avvo.github.io
No public sandbox / test environment; partner builds must use production credentials and live data avvo.github.io
No first-party SDKs for Node, Python, Go, Java, PHP or .NET; the only published SDK is the avvo/avvo_api Ruby client which has not received substantive maintenance in years github.com
Pricing for partner API access is undisclosed and quote-driven, with no published partner tiers avvo.com
API surface is read-mostly directory data plus a narrow review-response POST, no programmatic access to Q&A, legal guides, peer endorsements, Avvo Rating components, lead history, lead-credit requests or billing avvo.github.io
No public bulk data export or data feed for directory, rating or review data; large-scale consumers resort to scraping apify.com
Avvo Legal Services and Avvo Advisor, the only true transactional / payment-rails surfaces, were retired in 2018, eliminating any programmable booking / fee / fixed-service API surface attorneyatwork.com
The historical avvo/avvo_api Ruby client predates the Internet Brands acquisition and is not in step with the current Martindale-Avvo product surface (Leads Manager, Connect, Complete Profile Plus) github.com
Cross-property unification (Avvo + Martindale + Lawyers.com + Nolo) is implemented via the Martindale-Avvo Connect UI, not via a single documented public API a third party could call martindale-avvo.com
Existing 'integrations' are limited to: copy-paste HTML rating badge embeds, the Whippy.ai connector, sales-managed Martindale-Nolo to Clio Grow Lead Inbox, and email/SMS/phone lead delivery from the Leads Manager, not a robust marketplace whippy.ai
Internet Brands' broader portfolio (WebMD, Henry Schein One, Demandforce) does not surface a unified developer platform that exposes Avvo programmatically, so even sister-property partners cannot consume Avvo data programmatically internetbrands.com
Attorneys cannot programmatically pull or export their own profile content, peer endorsements, client reviews, lead history or rating component breakdown, updates and exports are manual through Connect martindale-avvo.com
No published OAuth scopes catalog, no public consent-screen documentation and no published deprecation policy for the Avvo API v4 → v5 transition avvo.github.io
Attorneys widely accuse Avvo of protecting paying attorneys at the expense of consumers, selectively removing negative client reviews after attorney disputes for vague 'lack of factual evidence' reasons trustpilot.com
Avvo holds a TrustPilot score of ~1.9/5 reflecting heavy consumer dissatisfaction with the review-moderation and lead-quality experience trustpilot.com
Multiple state bars (NJ, NY, PA, SC, OH, VA and others) issued ethics opinions against Avvo Legal Services finding the per-service 'marketing fee' to be an impermissible fee split with non-lawyers and an unauthorized referral arrangement, contributing to Avvo Legal Services' 2018 shutdown americanbar.org
Avvo Legal Services and Avvo Advisor were both retired in 2018 after the Internet Brands acquisition, eliminating Avvo's only true transactional / payment-rails surface attorneyatwork.com
Sales-led contracts for Avvo Pro / Pro Plus / Sponsored Listings are described in BBB and Reddit complaints as fraudulently induced (account managers promising leads that never materialized) with long contract commitments and friction unwinding bbb.org
The Avvo Rating algorithm is proprietary and opaque; attorneys with strong client outcomes but limited online resume signals (publications, speaking, peer endorsements) report unexpectedly low scores inoriseo.com
Auto-generated unclaimed profiles can carry stale, incorrect or outdated bar / contact / practice-area data sourced from state bars; the attorney has no way to delete the profile and must claim it to correct avvo.com
Attorneys cannot selectively delete individual negative client reviews, only public response, 'Report Abuse' for policy violations, or wholesale suppression of all reviews is available avvo.com
Pay-to-play perception: paid Sponsored Listings appear above organic search results, eroding consumer trust in the 'top lawyers near me' surface ollyolly.com
Lead-credit refund requests for invalid / duplicate / wrong-practice-area leads are narrowly gated and frequently rejected per attorney reports martindale-avvo.com
The 2018 Internet Brands acquisition consolidated Avvo with Martindale, Lawyers.com, Nolo and LawInfo, reducing competition in the U.S. legal directory market and concentrating pricing power deweybstrategic.com
Q&A forum has been criticized for low-signal answers, attorneys answering outside their jurisdiction or competence for SEO benefit, and difficulty for consumers in evaluating answer quality sitejabber.com
420+ negative consumer reviews on Sitejabber detail review-moderation issues, lead-quality complaints from attorneys, and aggressive sales tactics sitejabber.com
Declining brand relevance: Google Local Service Ads, Google Business Profile and modern review platforms have eroded standalone marketing ROI of an Avvo Pro listing kevin.lexblog.com