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What GEO for law firms actually is, how it's measured, what it costs, and how we keep it compliant — answered plainly.
Legal Torch is a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) agency built exclusively for law firms. We work to get firms cited and recommended by AI search engines — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude — while keeping every output reviewed against ABA Model Rules and state-bar advertising rules.
No. Legal Torch is a marketing agency, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice. Our compliance work is a marketing-content screen against applicable advertising rules; the firm's attorneys make and approve every legal decision.
Two things. First, we focus on AI-search citations — being named in AI answers — not just blue-link rankings. Second, we serve law firms only, so every deliverable is screened for bar-advertising compliance and built on legal-vertical playbooks. Most SEO agencies do neither.
They overlap but aren't the same. SEO optimizes for ranked links; GEO optimizes for being cited inside an AI-generated answer, which depends more on clear entity signals, extractable facts, and authoritative corroboration. We treat them as complementary — see the complete GEO guide.
The ones prospective clients actually use to ask for a lawyer: ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude. We baseline and track across all of them, because a firm can be visible in one and invisible in another.
Some of it, yes — entity consolidation and clean content are things a diligent firm can start on. The harder parts are sustained measurement across engines, compliance review of every public claim, and knowing which changes actually move citations. We're transparent that no one, us included, controls exactly how the models weight any single signal.
Not for being well-structured and accurate. What gets penalized is thin, mass-generated, or misleading content. Good GEO is the opposite: clear, correct, genuinely useful pages that are easy for both people and engines to read.
AI engines re-resolve entities on their own schedule, so meaningful movement typically shows up in the 60–90 day window, not the first month. Any agency promising first-month citation lift is measuring noise or manufacturing it. What you get early is a clear baseline and a documented plan.
Roughly: a baseline of buyer-intent prompts run across the engines, entity consolidation (directories, schema, duplicate merges), a content-gap map tying every lost prompt to a fix, and the first PROOF Report. We describe it week by week in our first-30-days piece.
Through monthly PROOF Reports — Position, Receipts, Outcomes, Oversight, Forward — where every claim is checkable against the baseline. It's the same evidentiary standard behind our public research, the VERDICT™ + PROOF™ methodology.
It depends on your firm's size, market, and starting point. We start most firms with a fixed-scope Diagnostic Audit so you get a concrete baseline before any retainer decision. Start with the free 60-second AI Visibility Audit for a directional read.
No long lock-in. We'd rather earn the next month with a PROOF Report you can actually check than hold you to a contract. Engagement terms are set out in a written agreement before any work begins.
That's common and often fine. GEO is complementary to traditional SEO, and we can work alongside an existing agency — or hand your team a scoped plan they can execute. We'll be honest about where your current setup already covers the ground.
Every public-facing output — page copy, structured data, articles — is screened against ABA Model Rule 7.1 and the relevant state-bar advertising rules before it ships. It's the C in our VERDICT™ methodology. To be precise: this is a marketing-content screen, not legal advice, and your firm's attorneys hold the final pen.
No. We don't publish superlatives, guarantees, or results claims that can't be substantiated, and we don't invent testimonials or case studies. Honest, checkable claims are the whole point of how we work.
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