Find Expert Witnesses in the US and Australia
find_expert_witnessesSearch deduplicated expert witness and medico-legal assessor records from US and Australian directories. Filter by specialty, region, country, and source to find the right professional.
Instructions
Find expert witnesses and medico-legal assessors in the United States and Australia. Reads 18 public directories (7 in the US, 11 in Australia, ABIME counted once), merges the same person across directories into one record, and maps every source's specialty tags to one taxonomy. Each row carries name, specialty, state or region, country, firm, practice site, phone, listing URL, and the sources that list the person. country accepts US and AU only: the public actor covers the United States and Australia and refuses a UK or Canadian request, so the run stops with an error on any other value. published_email is filled only when a source page printed an address; the actor never guesses an email. Several sources publish terms that restrict automated collection, reproduction, commercial use, or solicitation; the actor README lists each source's terms posture, and the use decision is yours. mode list returns every matching expert; mode feed returns only experts new, changed, returned, or removed since the last run on the same persistent store. Charges $0.004 per expert record, $0.01 per row with a published email, $0.002 per US row checked against NPPES when verifyNppes is on, and $0.00005 per actor start per GB of memory (one event at the 1024 MB default). Requires an APIFY_TOKEN and consumes Apify credits. Read only against the directories; it writes only to the named key-value store in your own Apify account.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| mode | No | list returns every matching expert. feed returns only experts that are new, changed, or returned since the last run on the same persistent store, plus removed rows; unchanged experts are not emitted and cost nothing. A listing counts as removed after 2 complete, unfiltered runs miss it. Default: list. | |
| region | No | State or region as the source prints it, for example Queensland, California, New South Wales. Case and accents are ignored. Empty returns every region. | |
| country | No | US, AU, or both. Empty returns both. United States and Australia only: the public actor refuses a UK or Canadian request and stops the run with an error, so no other value is accepted. | |
| sources | No | Directories to read. Empty reads every implemented source. Sources that are not implemented yet, or that the actor does not cover, are skipped and named in the RUN_SUMMARY record. The 18 implemented sources are abime, lacourt-panels, sfbar, cccba, isba, lsba, aaimco, medilaw, lexmedicus, aushub, medicolegal-specialists, index-medicolegal, themis, integrityml, vmls, lime, mag-directory, workcover-wa. | |
| maxItems | No | Stop after this many output rows (one row per deduplicated expert). 0 means no cap. A capped run never marks listings as removed. Default: 100. | |
| specialty | No | Taxonomy codes. A parent code also matches its children: medicine.psychiatry includes medicine.psychiatry.forensic. Empty returns every specialty. | |
| verifyNppes | No | Check each US record against the free NPPES monthly file (name, state, and specialty). Adds npi and nppes_status. NPPES carries no email. Charged per checked record. Default: false. | |
| persistStoreName | No | Named key-value store in your account that keeps expert records between runs. Reuse the same name for feed mode. Default: expert-witness-directory-store. |