Justia API
No REST or GraphQL API. The only machine-readable surface is RSS and Atom feeds for opinion summaries and legal blog search. Directory leads, reviews, and case data have no programmatic path; anything else requires a bespoke commercial agreement.
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Justia scores F on the API Report Card. No REST or GraphQL API. The only machine-readable surface is RSS and Atom feeds for opinion summaries and legal blog search. Directory leads, reviews, and case data have no programmatic path; anything else requires a bespoke commercial agreement.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Justia is a free legal information portal plus paid lawyer-marketing platform founded in 2003 by Tim Stanley and Stacy Stern (the same duo who co-founded FindLaw in 1995, scaled it into the largest legal site of its era, and sold it to West Group / Thomson Reuters in 2001) and headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Vertical: Legal, specifically free legal research portal + paid attorney directory and lawyer-marketing services (lead-gen, SEO, websites, PPC) for U.S. lawyers, plus consumer/researcher-facing free legal content. A consumer or pro se litigant Googles a case name or US Code section, lands on a law.justia.com or supreme.justia.com page, and reads the opinion or statute for free..
Very high consumer-and-researcher-side U.S. ubiquity (one of the most-trafficked free legal sites on the open web), high attorney-directory coverage, near-zero developer/API ubiquity.
Case law records: case name, citation, court, jurisdiction, decision date, opinion text (HTML + PDF), syllabus, justices/judges, dissents/concurrences, headnotes, related cases, citation network.
Justia is a Web 1.5 / early Web 2.0 legal portal, domain registered in November 2002, full site launched December 13, 2004, in its 22nd year of operation.
No public REST or GraphQL API is offered for case law, statutes, dockets, attorney profiles, ratings, reviews, or directory events; partners cannot query Justia programmatically. No developer portal, OpenAPI/Swagger spec, SDKs (JS, Python, Ruby, .NET), sandbox or API key issuance exists for Justia. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include FindLaw (Thomson Reuters), Avvo (Internet Brands / Martindale-Avvo), Martindale-Hubbell (Internet Brands), Lawyers.com (Internet Brands), Nolo (Internet Brands), Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters). Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.