AI Visibility for Lawyers

When clients ask AI for a lawyer, get recommended

Divorce, DUI, personal injury, immigration, estate planning — clients now research lawyers through AI before they ever call. Recometric makes sure your firm is the recommendation.

The shift

Patients, clients and customers now ask AI first

When someone in your service area asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Google AI for a recommendation, one of three things happens: a competitor gets named, a generic directory is cited, or your business is recommended. Recometric exists to make sure it's the third one.

Challenge

Trust is the entire purchase

Legal services are high-stakes. AI engines weight credentials, ratings and review depth more heavily than for low-consideration categories.

Challenge

Practice-area specificity

‘Family law’ vs ‘divorce mediation’ vs ‘high-conflict custody’ — AI rewards practice-area depth over generalist positioning.

Challenge

Avvo, Justia and Martindale

Vertical legal directories carry significant weight. Incomplete or missing profiles weaken recommendation odds.

Ranking signals

What makes AI recommend a law firm

AI engines weight different signals for different industries. These are the levers that move the needle for lawyers.

Practice-area review language

Reviews that mention the specific case type (divorce, personal injury, DUI) train AI to match you to those prompts.

Avvo, Justia, Martindale, FindLaw

Complete, current profiles on the major legal directories are baseline. Bar association profiles compound trust.

Bar admissions, board certifications, awards

Surface bar admissions, Super Lawyers recognition, board certifications and meaningful case results (where ethically permitted).

Attorney + LegalService + FAQ schema

Use Attorney schema for each lawyer, LegalService for practice areas, and FAQPage for common case questions.

Practice-area pages with depth

One deep page per practice area, with case-type subpages (e.g. ‘grey divorce’, ‘military divorce’) for niche prompts.

Free consultation + service-area pages

Make the consultation flow obvious. Build pages for each county/city you serve.

Real prompts

The prompts your future customers are asking

Recometric tracks how your business shows up across thousands of variations of these prompts, in every engine.

Best divorce lawyer in [city] for high-conflict custody

Personal injury attorney in [city] with no upfront cost

Affordable estate planning lawyer in [city]

DUI lawyer in [city] with free consultation

Immigration attorney in [city] for green card application

Lawyer in [city] for small business contracts

Family law attorney in [neighborhood] who speaks Spanish

Bankruptcy lawyer in [city] with payment plans

Framework

The 90-day AI visibility plan for lawyers

01

Vertical citations

Complete Avvo, Justia, Martindale, FindLaw and bar association profiles. Reconcile NAP everywhere.

02

Practice-area pages

One deep page per practice area, with case-specific subpages. Include FAQs about process, cost, timeline.

03

Review system

Build an ethical, bar-compliant review request flow. Aim for steady velocity from satisfied clients.

04

Schema + credentials

Deploy Attorney, LegalService and FAQPage schema. Surface bar admissions, certifications and recognitions.

05

Authority building

Get quoted in local news on relevant cases, write for the local bar journal, speak at CLE events.

06

Track + iterate

Monthly Recometric scan; iterate based on which prompt clusters you're winning and losing.

In practice

What good looks like

Pattern

Niche positioning beats general

A firm that owns ‘grey divorce in [city]’ wins those high-value prompts even against larger general family law firms.

Pattern

Free consultation as schema

Adding ‘free consultation’ as a service with schema markup increases AI Overview citation rate for cost-sensitive prompts.

See if AI recommends your law firm

Run a free Recometric scan and get an AI visibility score plus a checklist of fixes specific to lawyers.

Frequently asked questions