Practice and place are buried.
The prompt is specific. A firm homepage about "excellence" does not answer it.
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AEO for Law Firms. Get Your Firm Named When Clients Ask AI for a Lawyer.
AEO for law firms gets your firm named when a person asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews for a lawyer in a practice and a place. Austin Heaton structures that information. He does not practice law and does not write legal advice.
One senior owner12+ years in searchLas Vegas based, works worldwide
Example of a useful answerWho is a lawyer for this kind of matter in this city?
A useful answer names a practice, a place, and a firm, and it cites a page that states both. It does not promise an outcome.
Practice pagePlaceDirectory or profileThe AI search problem
People ask AI for a lawyer, and directories answer first.
The reader is a managing partner or a marketing lead at a firm. The person asking AI is a potential client who does not know your brand. They name a problem and a city. The answer they get is often a directory, a bar listing, or a firm that published a clear practice page. If you are a footnote on a directory and nowhere else, you are the footnote.
Law firm marketing has ethics rules Austin does not interpret. Your counsel or risk partner decides what a page may say about results, specialties, and fees. Austin turns the approved facts into pages an engine can quote: practice, place, and who the work is for.
There is no law-firm case study on this site. Pactvera is legal tech, a software company, and it is not used here as a law-firm result.
Directories own the citation.
If your own page is weaker than the directory profile, the engine cites the directory and may describe you from an old blurb.
Outcome claims are an ethics problem and a citation problem.
A result the firm is not allowed to advertise will still be repeated if it is on a page. Take it down before you ask to be cited.
Individual lawyers and the firm disagree online.
Bios, the site, and a directory list three different practices. The model hedges or picks the wrong one.
What Austin does
What Austin does for a law firm
Practice and place pages, consistent bios, and directory descriptions that match. No legal advice and no outcome writing.
Practice and place prompt map
The matters and cities you want to be named for. The ones you do not take are listed so pages stop implying them.
Practice pages with a direct answer
Who the matter is for, where you handle it, and how a person starts. Approved by the firm before publish.
Lawyer and firm consistency
Bios, schema, and directory listings use the same practice names.
Directory and profile cleanup
Old blurbs that overclaim are corrected. Engines prefer them when they are clearer than your site.
Educational pages that do not impersonate advice
Explainers the firm is willing to stand behind, reviewed by a lawyer at the firm. Austin does not sign them as advice.
Citation checks on the matters you chose
Named or not, for that practice and place. Pricing depends on scope.
How it works
How a law firm engagement runs
A partner reviews every page. That review is part of the schedule.
Choose the practices and places
A short list. A firm that claims every matter gets cited for none of them cleanly.
Publish one page per chosen pair
Practice plus place, with a direct first paragraph the firm approved.
Make directories match
The same nouns everywhere a model might read.
Sample the client prompts
The way a person actually asks, including the city.
Prompts buyers already ask
Prompts potential clients ask
Shapes. Not legal questions Austin answers, and not a live transcript.
I need a lawyer for this kind of matter in this city
What winning looks like. The cited page states the practice and the place. A national "we do everything" page loses.
How does this kind of matter usually start?
What winning looks like. An explainer a lawyer at the firm reviewed, with no promise about the reader's case.
What should I ask when I hire a lawyer for this?
What winning looks like. A checklist the firm is willing to publish. Not advice on the reader's facts.
Which firms handle this matter for businesses, not individuals?
What winning looks like. Say the client type in the first lines if that is your practice.
AEO compared with traditional SEO
AEO versus traditional SEO for law firms
A ranking for a generic injury or business term is not the same as being named for a matter and a city.
| Buying job | Traditional SEO | AEO for this industry |
|---|---|---|
| The query | A broad legal head term. | A matter plus a place. |
| The page | A slogan homepage. | A practice page the firm approved. |
| The hazard | An outcome claim. | A review gate and a deletion list. |
| Off-site | Any directory link. | Directory text that matches the site. |
| Success | More visitors. | Named when someone asks for that matter in that place. |
Questions
Law firm questions
What is AEO for law firms?
It is the work of getting AI engines to name your firm for a practice and a place, using pages and profiles the firm has approved. Austin does not provide legal advice.
Do you have law-firm case studies?
No. This site does not publish a law-firm result. The Pactvera study is legal tech software and is not a law-firm metric.
Is AEO different from law firm SEO?
SEO chases rankings for queries. AEO chases being named inside the answer. Firms usually need the practice page to do both, with a lawyer reviewing the words.
How is this different from a large legal marketing agency?
Austin is one consultant. He will not publish a page a partner has not approved, and he does not sell a content quota.
Can you write our legal advice content?
No. Lawyers at the firm review any explainer. Austin structures it so an engine can quote the approved version.
How is the engagement scoped?
Pricing depends on scope: how many practices and places are in the first list.
How do we start?
Book a call with the matters you actually want. Bring the claims your ethics rules will not allow on a page.
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