Attorney licensing information

I saw this article at LLRX.com and thought it might be of some interest.

A Compilation of State Lawyer Licensing Databases
By Andrew Zimmerman and Trevor Rosen, Published on January 19, 2009

[Editor's Note: This article was updated on January 19, 2009]

Every U.S. lawyer is licensed to practice in some state, but very few lawyers are licensed to practice in every state. As a result, the question often arises…is attorney X licensed to practice in state Y? Traditionally the answer would be found by calling the relevant state's licensing authority. That still works although, now, it may be faster, easier and cheaper to find the answer by searching that state's relevant online database. These databases have multiplied quickly. Virtually unknown in the 1990s, there were approximately thirty lawyer licensing databases by December 2001. Today there are 45.

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