# Skip tracing for law firms

URL: https://skipmatch.com/skip-tracing-for-law-firms
Last updated: 2026-11-04

## Key facts

- Price: a flat $0.03 a record at any list size from 50 to 100,000 records.
- Unit: Priced per matched record.
- Minimum order: 50 records
- Minimum charge: Minimum charge $0.50 when any record matches.
- Single search: Single search: $0.10, charged only on a match, paid from prepaid credit ($10 minimum top-up).
- Prepaid credit: Prepaid credit expires 12 months after your last credit purchase, single search or credit-paid list, and unused credit is refundable on request within 90 days of purchase.
- Free tool: Check your list free at /tools/skip-trace-csv-checker. Check columns, split addresses and download a fixed CSV in your browser before tracing at $0.03 a record. No account needed.
- Subscription: None. A list order is paid for on its own by card or prepaid credit.
- Max per order: 100,000 rows or 50 MB per file
- Output: Up to 10 phones per owner, each with its line type (mobile, landline or VoIP), plus emails where found
- Sources: 3 core providers: idiCORE, Enformion and Delvepoint
- Not for: FCRA uses: credit, insurance, employment or tenant screening
- Prices last changed: 2026-10-02
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

Law firms use Skipmatch to add phone numbers and emails to lists of heirs, witnesses and other parties in their matters. Upload a CSV with a name and last-known address for each person, and get contacts back for the rows that match.

## Who this is for

This page is for law firms, in-house legal teams and paralegals that work lists of people across matters, such as probate and estate, real estate and collections. If you have names and last-known addresses and need current phone numbers or emails for many rows at once, that is the gap bulk skip tracing fills.

## The lists law firms bring

- Heirs and beneficiaries. Probate and estate files list people whose current contact details are unknown. Upload the name and last-known address columns and get contacts back for the same rows.
- Witnesses and parties. Lists of people to reach for a case, where the address on file has aged. Re-run the name and address to look for a current phone or email.
- Collection placements. A collections practice working a batch of accounts with stale phone numbers. Re-run the name and last-known address on the same rows.

## How it works

- Export your list as a CSV. One row per person, with an owner name and a complete address (street, city, state and ZIP). 50 to 100,000 rows per order. Your column names can be anything; you point each one at the right field during upload.
- Upload it and see the price. The total is shown before you pay. Skipmatch charges $0.03 a record, and you pay only for records that come back with a phone or email. Minimum charge $0.50 when any record matches.
- Download your list with contacts added. You get your own file back with up to 10 phones per person (each labeled mobile, landline or VoIP), up to three emails, and a HIT or MISS flag on every row.

See the columns in a real result on the sample file, or work out a total on the cost calculator.

## Permitted use and compliance

Skipmatch is for a lawful business purpose you can state for every record, such as locating or contacting a party, witness, heir or defendant in a matter you are handling, including for service of process or legal notice. It is not a consumer reporting agency and the data is not a consumer report, so it may not be used to decide anyone's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or tenancy, or for any other purpose the Fair Credit Reporting Act covers. The permissible-use terms also bar using the data to stalk, harass, threaten or defraud anyone, or to locate a person in order to cause them harm.

Your own professional-conduct rules apply to how you contact people. If the firm regularly collects consumer debt, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Regulation F may apply to you, and depending on the matter the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and do-not-call rules, and state law may too. Skipmatch does not scrub numbers against do-not-call lists and a number in the file is not consent to contact anyone. Every account accepts the permissible-use terms before its first order. This is general information, not legal advice.

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## Questions

Q: Can a law firm skip trace a list of heirs or witnesses?
A: Yes, for a lawful purpose in a matter you are handling. Upload a name and an address for each person. Each row that has a match comes back with phones and emails; rows with nothing found are flagged MISS.

Q: Can I use the results to decide eligibility or to screen someone?
A: No. Skipmatch is not a consumer reporting agency and the data is not a consumer report. It may not be used for credit, employment, tenant screening or insurance eligibility, or for any other purpose the FCRA covers.

Q: What does it cost?
A: Skipmatch charges $0.03 a record, billed only for matched records, with no subscription or monthly seat. The total is shown before you pay. Minimum charge $0.50 when any record matches.

Q: What do I need to upload?
A: A CSV with an owner name and one complete address (street, city, state and ZIP) on each row. Orders run from 50 to 100,000 rows. Your own column names are fine; you map them during upload.

Q: Can I call everyone on the list?
A: Not automatically. Check the do-not-call rules that apply to you before you call or text, and scrub the list yourself because Skipmatch does not. This is general information, not legal advice.