USE CASE:
Legal companies and the legal entities problem
This page is about legal entities for legal companies: the options you actually have, what each one costs, and which one we would pick. We are Mamba Labs, we build Apify actors, and Legal Entity Resolver is the one that does this for legal companies.
The problem
Legal companies distort legal entities, for a reason specific to them. Start from this: legal companies are partnerships that publish partner lists and almost nothing else, and legal entities follows. Know this about legal companies before any legal entities: practice areas are the real segmentation and they sit in a navigation menu rather than a data field. There is 1 runnable example of legal entities for legal companies below.
Traditional Search Tools
- The bar or law society register, for legal companies. Free, authoritative, and it confirms the firm and its people.
- The company's own footer. In the UK and most of the EU the registered name and number are required on the website. It is the fastest lookup there is and people forget it exists.
- Dun and Bradstreet or a KYC vendor. Built for regulated onboarding, with the coverage and the price that implies. If you have a compliance obligation you probably already have one.
- Search the register. Companies House, the SEC, the local commercial register. All free, all authoritative, and all requiring you to already know roughly what you are searching for.
The method
- Start with one of legal companies you already know, so a wrong legal entities answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Legal Entity Resolver across your list of legal companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for legal entities.
- Read ten rows of legal entities on legal companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Legal Entity Resolver1 preconfigured task on this page's job.