Standards

Admission standards.

This page is the standard behind the membership claim: who is eligible, what is reviewed, how official sources are checked, what every decision means, and how a decision can be corrected.

Effective at opening. These standards take effect when applications open, and may be revised before then. No jurisdiction is live yet, and no member has yet been admitted under them. A material revision is announced before it takes effect and is recorded in the change log at the foot of this page.

Supported jurisdictions.

No jurisdiction is open yet. The supported list is currently empty.

A jurisdiction opens only after two things exist: counsel approval for operating there, and a reliable procedure for verifying licensure against that regulator's official records. Neither is satisfied for any jurisdiction today, so no application can name a supported jurisdiction and none can proceed.

Objective eligibility criteria.

Eligibility is objective and narrow. An applicant must be:

A natural person applying for themselves. No organizations, no proxies, no applications on another person's behalf.
Currently active and authorized to practice law in at least one supported U.S. jurisdiction, as reported by that jurisdiction's regulator.
Able to disclose every current and former bar or court admission and its current status, including inactive, retired, suspended, resigned, or disbarred status.

Only one supported active authorization is required for ordinary eligibility. How discipline or an order in another jurisdiction affects membership is determined by the versioned cross-jurisdiction policy in force at the time of the decision.

What is reviewed.

Paid review examines four things, against the published standard:

Identity. That the applicant is the actual lawyer named in the regulator record, established through an approved identity-proofing method.
Licensure. That at least one supported jurisdiction reports the applicant as currently authorized to practice, checked against official sources.
Resume consistency. That the name and broad career chronology are consistent with the application and official public sources, and that claimed legal employment or education does not appear materially fabricated.
Handle safety. That the requested address does not impersonate a person or institution, imply a false role, infringe an obvious trademark, or create abuse risk.

What the resume is not used for.

The resume supports identity and professional-history consistency only. It is not used to judge whether someone attended a prestigious school, worked at a famous firm, lives in a desirable location, appears impressive, or belongs to a preferred demographic. Review does not score school prestige, firm prestige, geography, age, graduation year beyond identity consistency, photographs, surname, disability, family status, income, or other protected characteristics or their proxies. Resumes are not fed to generative AI, model training, data enrichment, advertising, or third-party consumer-report services.

Admitted does not publish its internal fraud-control methods or risk thresholds, because publishing them would defeat them. Everything else about the standard is public on this page.

How official sources are checked.

Licensure is verified against the regulator's official public record, not against applicant-supplied documents alone. For every check, the reviewer records the jurisdiction and regulator, the regulator's exact status label, the official source consulted, the timestamp of the check, and the outcome.

Regulators use different vocabularies, so Admitted quotes the regulator's exact status terminology with its check date rather than translating every label into a phrase like "good standing." Where a regulator offers no reliable official lookup, trained staff perform the check; if a source is unavailable or ambiguous, the case goes to human review rather than being guessed at.

No approval may rely solely on applicant-supplied data, a resume, an external email, or a public bar record. Final decisions are made by people; no automated model makes an adverse decision.

Review and reverification cadence.

Applications are reviewed individually. No queue position or completion date is shown, because neither would be an honest number to publish.

After admission, the reverification cadence is every 30 days. Verification is time-bounded: each member's record shows the actual date the last check was completed, never a claim of continuous verification. Members are required to report a relevant licensure status change within 48 hours under the membership terms.

What every decision means.

Every application decision uses one of the categories below. There is no vague category, and "not prestigious enough" is not a decision Admitted can make.

Decision categories and their plain meaning
Category	Plain meaning
`approved`	The application met every published requirement. One address is reserved for a stated period; membership still requires a separate activation.
`incomplete_information`	A required field, attestation, or document was missing or unreadable. This is correctable; the applicant is told what is needed.
`unsupported_jurisdiction`	The qualifying jurisdiction is not on the supported list. This is not a judgment about the applicant.
`not_currently_authorized`	The official regulator record did not report the applicant as currently authorized to practice, using that regulator's own terminology.
`identity_mismatch`	Identity proofing could not establish that the applicant is the lawyer named in the regulator record.
`material_inconsistency`	The application and resume disagreed on a material fact, such as name or broad career chronology, and the disagreement was not resolved.
`handle_or_impersonation_risk`	The requested address could impersonate a person or institution, imply a false role or affiliation, infringe an obvious trademark, or create abuse risk.
`security_or_fraud_risk`	The application failed a sanctions, payment-integrity, or account-security check under the approved procedure. Detail may be limited where full disclosure would reveal a narrow fraud-control method.
`duplicate_application`	Another application or membership already exists for the same person. One person, one address.
`unable_to_verify`	An official source was unavailable or ambiguous, so the required facts could not be confirmed either way. The case can be revisited when the source is available.

Any discretionary rejection for inconsistency, identity, fraud, or handle risk requires a second reviewer. Objective unsupported-jurisdiction and official inactive-status decisions may be finalized by one reviewer but remain open to correction.

Nondiscrimination.

Admission decisions apply one versioned, objective rubric consistently. Admitted does not consider race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, family status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic - or proxies for them, such as photographs, surname, home address, or school prestige. No photograph is collected.

Reviewer outcomes will be tested for unexplained disparities using privacy-preserving aggregate analysis. Reasonable accessibility accommodations are provided without lowering substantive eligibility.

Correction and reconsideration.

Every applicant receives the plain decision category and, unless disclosure would reveal a narrow fraud-control method, a correction path.

An applicant who is not approved may make one free correction and reconsideration request within 30 calendar days of the decision. Reconsideration corrects facts - a wrong record match, an outdated status, a resolved inconsistency. It is not a paid second review and does not change the published standard.

How status changes affect service and billing.

In plain terms, the rules are:

A failed automated check creates an attention state for human review. It does not accuse the member or change any public label by itself.
A change to one license does not suspend membership while another supported qualifying authorization remains active, unless discipline elsewhere, a court order, or the approved cross-jurisdiction policy independently requires action.
Confirmed loss of every qualifying authorization pauses billing, suspends outbound sending, preserves a controlled export and transition period when safe to do so, and starts human review. Members are not charged for a membership they can no longer hold.
While a status is under review, any public verification page shows a neutral unavailable state. Disciplinary allegations are never published.

The $99.99 application fee and the $199.99/month membership are separate payments with separate consents; approval never starts the subscription by itself. Full refund rules are in the Refund Policy.

What membership means - and does not mean.

Admitted is a private email membership for independently responsible legal professionals. Membership confirms only that Admitted verified the member's identity and current authorization to practice in at least one listed jurisdiction as of the stated verification date. Admitted is not a law firm, bar association, regulator, referral service, rating, certification, endorsement, or guarantee of competence, ethics, results, or professional standing.

Members are independent. An @admitted.law address is personal and nontransferable; it may not be used to imply a common firm, a partnership between members, or an authority the member does not hold. Admitted never recommends, rates, ranks, or endorses any member, and membership is not evidence of competence, ethics, results, or professional standing.

Change log.

Material revisions to these standards are recorded here.

Standards revisions
Date	Change
2026-08-23	Initial standards published ahead of opening. Applications are not open and no jurisdiction is supported yet.