Your Advocate Profile on eCourtsIndia Is Free, and It Always Will Be

Last updated: 23 September 2026

Any advocate enrolled with a State Bar Council can list a free, verified profile on eCourtsIndia. You build it yourself at ecourtsindia.com/dashboard/profile, we check it against your Bar Card, and it then appears in the public Find and Contact Verified Advocates directory, where litigants can filter by bar council, area of practice and court and message you directly. Listing costs nothing, keeping it costs nothing, and nobody can pay to sit above you. This guide explains what the profile is, how to build it, what a litigant sees, and why we don’t rate, rank or charge advocates.

Key takeaways

• The verified directory lives at ecourtsindia.com/advocate. Profiles are self-declared and verified against Bar Cards.
• You create and edit your profile from your dashboard after signing in. There is no fee at any step.
• We don’t rate, rank, or charge advocates for listing. There are no sponsored slots and no paid badges.
• Litigants filter the directory by State Bar Council, Area of Practice and Practising At, then contact you on WhatsApp or email from your profile.
• The listing is separate from the record-built lawyer directory, which indexes 34 lakh+ advocate names as they appear in court records.

What the eCourtsIndia advocate profile is

An eCourtsIndia advocate profile is a free professional page that an enrolled advocate writes and publishes, checked against a Bar Card, and listed in a public directory that litigants can search. It sits inside a platform that indexes 32 crore+ case records from the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, district and taluka courts in all 36 states and union territories, and 18 tribunal and commission types. So the person reading your page is often someone who has just looked up their own case and now needs a lawyer for it.

The profile is a different thing from a paid listing on a lead-selling website. It is not advertising space rented by the month. It is your own description of your practice, sitting next to a verification mark that tells the reader your enrolment has been checked. We wrote about the wider shift from simple case lookup to real research in From Case Lookup to Case Intelligence. The advocate profile is the part of that story that belongs to you.

Two directories, two jobs

eCourtsIndia runs two lawyer directories, and it helps to keep them apart. The first is built automatically from court records. The second is the one you control.

	Lawyer directory (/lawyer)	Verified advocates (/advocate)
How it is built	Automatically, from the advocate names that appear as counsel in court records	By the advocate, who writes the profile from the dashboard
Size	34 lakh+ advocate names	A growing list, over 3,800 verified advocates so far
Verification	None. A name in a record is not proof of enrolment	Checked against the advocate’s Bar Card and shown with a Verified mark
What a reader gets	Case counts, courts and case types linked to a name	Bio, bar council and Bar ID, practice areas, courts, office and a contact button
Cost to the advocate	Free	Free

Litigants use both. The record-built side answers “what has this person actually appeared in?”. The verified side answers “who is this, are they enrolled, and how do I reach them?”. Our guide on how to check a lawyer’s track record before you hire shows readers how to put the two together.

Free to list, free to keep

The word “free” gets stretched in this market, so here is exactly what it means. Creating your profile costs nothing. Getting it verified costs nothing. Keeping it live, editing it, adding a photo, a bio, your practice areas and your courts costs nothing. There is no trial that turns into a bill and no premium version of the directory that hides you unless you pay. The pricing page lists “your advocate listing” among the things that are free on every plan, including the free one.

That also means the listing is not tied to anything else you buy. You can use eCourtsIndia only for your profile and never spend a rupee. If you later want the paid tools, such as case tracking with WhatsApp alerts, they sit beside the listing and don’t change how it appears.

We don’t rate, rank, or charge advocates

The directory carries one line at the bottom of every page: profiles are self-declared and verified against Bar Cards, and we don’t rate, rank, or charge advocates for listing. Each part of that sentence is a deliberate choice.

• No rating. There are no stars, scores or “top lawyer” labels. A court record tells you where someone appeared, not whether they are good, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
• No ranking for sale. Nobody can buy a sponsored slot, a gold badge or a place on a list of recommended lawyers. A first-year junior in a taluka court and a designated senior in the Supreme Court list under the same rules.
• No listing fee. The directory earns nothing from advocates, which keeps us honest about what goes into it.

The reason is practical. The moment a directory sells placement, it stops being useful to the person it is meant to serve. A litigant looking for a criminal lawyer in Lucknow or a company law practitioner before the Mumbai bench of the NCLT should see people who actually do that work, filtered by what they asked for, not whoever paid most that quarter.

It also matters for who gets found. India has roughly 20 lakh enrolled advocates, according to figures the Ministry of Law and Justice gave Parliament in 2023, and most of them work in the district courts that carry the bulk of the country’s litigation. We wrote about that in The District Court Lawyer Is Ninety Percent of Indian Law. A pay-to-rank model would always tilt toward the small group that can afford it. A free, unranked directory gives the district court advocate the same chance of being found as anyone else.

How to build your profile, step by step

The whole process takes a few minutes. You need a working phone number or email, your enrolment details and a clear image of your Bar Card.

1. Sign in or create a free account. If you are new to the platform, register here. No card is needed.
2. Open your profile builder at ecourtsindia.com/dashboard/profile.
3. Fill in your enrolment details: your name as it appears on the rolls, your State Bar Council and your Bar ID.
4. Add your Bar Card so the profile can be verified against it.
5. Describe your practice. Pick your areas of practice from the case-type list (bail, civil suits, matrimonial, motor accident claims, writ petitions and so on), add the courts you appear in, your office or chamber address and a short bio in your own words.
6. Choose how litigants reach you. Messages from the Contact button on your profile go to you on WhatsApp or email.
7. Publish and check the live page. Search for yourself at ecourtsindia.com/advocate using your bar council and practice area filters, and read your page the way a client would.

If you can use WhatsApp, you can do all of this. You can come back to the dashboard at any time to change your bio, add a court or update a phone number.

What a litigant sees on your profile

A verified profile is a single page with your public web address under ecourtsindia.com/advocate. Here is what it shows today:

• Your name, photo and a Verified mark, with your State Bar Council and Bar ID beside it.
• About: the bio you wrote, in your own voice.
• Office location: your chamber or office address.
• Courts and areas of practice: the case types you handle and the courts you appear at.
• Cases: matters from the court record that you have linked to your profile, each opening the full case page with its CNR, court, case type and status.
• Contact: a button that sends the litigant’s message straight to you on WhatsApp or email.
• Matching lawyers: other verified advocates in similar courts, so a reader who needs a different specialism can keep looking.

Notice what is missing: no win rate, no star rating, no “most popular” tag. The litigant gets facts and a way to reach you, then makes up their own mind.

How litigants find you in the directory

The directory home page has three filters. State Bar Council covers all 25 councils listed today, from the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa and the Bar Council of Delhi to the Bar Council of Kerala and the joint council for Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim. Area of Practice uses more than 200 case-type labels, such as Bail Application, Anticipatory Bail Application, Civil Suit, Domestic Violence Case and Commercial Suit. Practising At narrows the list to a particular court.

A litigant in Hisar who needs help with a motor accident claim can pick the Punjab and Haryana bar council, choose the practice area, and see who lists that work in that court. That is why the most useful thing you can do is to be accurate: list the courts you really attend and the work you really take. A profile that claims every practice area in every court is less useful to the reader, not more.

Litigants also arrive from the other side. Someone who has just searched their own matter on ecourtsindia.com/search, or followed our guide to finding a lawyer in India, can move from the case page to the verified directory in one click.

Making your profile useful to the person reading it

Since there is no ranking to game, the only question is whether your page helps a litigant decide. A few habits make the difference.

• Write the bio for a client, not a committee. Say what you handle, where, and for whom. “Bail, NDPS and cheque bounce matters at the Hisar district courts and the Punjab and Haryana High Court” tells a reader more than a paragraph of adjectives.
• Keep your courts honest and current. If you have stopped attending a court, remove it.
• Link real matters. Cases you link show a reader that the work on your page is the work you do. Anything you link is already public court record.
• Keep your contact details working. A message that bounces is a client you lose.
• Use a clear, professional photo. People are more comfortable writing to a face.

Beyond the listing: optional tools for your practice

The listing stands on its own. If you also want help running your matters, the AI Clerk is the paid layer, and it starts free with 50 credits every month. Case tracking costs Rs 5 per case per month, and each WhatsApp or email alert costs Rs 0.50 per channel, so a new order or next date reaches you within minutes of the record changing. Our step-by-step guide to enabling case alerts walks through the setup. Paid plans start at Rs 250 + GST a month for 500 credits, and credits never expire. Full details are on the pricing page.

You can also carry the platform with you. The Android app and iOS app put search, cause lists and your cases on your phone, and the Chrome extension keeps tomorrow’s listings a click away while you work. None of this affects your listing, which stays free either way.

Why a profile is worth the few minutes

Most people in India still find a lawyer through word of mouth, and that chain is slow and narrow. A litigant who has moved city, or a small business that has outgrown its first lawyer, often has no warm introduction at all. They search. When they do, a verified page with your bar council, your courts and a way to reach you is the difference between being shortlisted and not being seen.

The person on the other side of the screen is checking two things: that you are real, and that you do their kind of work. A verified profile answers the first before the first phone call. Your own description of your practice, and the matters you choose to link, answer the second. The people who contact you are then already a closer match to the work you want.

In short

• Build your profile at ecourtsindia.com/dashboard/profile. It is checked against your Bar Card and listed at ecourtsindia.com/advocate.
• It is free to list and free to keep, on every plan.
• We don’t rate, rank, or charge advocates. Nobody can pay to appear above you.
• Litigants filter by bar council, area of practice and court, and contact you on WhatsApp or email.
• Paid tools such as AI Clerk tracking and alerts are optional and separate from the listing.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• eCourtsIndia verified advocate directory and footer note (“Profiles are self-declared and verified against Bar Cards. We don’t rate, rank, or charge advocates for listing.”), ecourtsindia.com/advocate, checked 23 September 2026.
• eCourtsIndia pricing page, “Free search, cause lists and your advocate listing” on every plan, ecourtsindia.com/pricing, checked 23 September 2026.
• Case record count of 32 crore+ from the eCourtsIndia index, 23 September 2026. Lawyer directory size of 34 lakh+ names from ecourtsindia.com.
• Number of enrolled advocates in India (about 20 lakh): Ministry of Law and Justice reply in the Rajya Sabha, 2023.

Read next: How to Find a Lawyer in India and How to Check a Lawyer’s Track Record Online in India Before You Hire.