These are questions like “best personal injury lawyer in Dallas” — people choosing a firm, not researching a topic. The firms that do appear are being reached through those directories, and the engines say so themselves in the searches below.
Every office below is real, staffed and reviewed. Markets are grouped by whether they are statistically distinguishable from each other, not ranked — at these sample sizes a bare percentage moves around. Reviews do not predict which group a market falls into.
| Market | Answers | Named | Share of answers | Office reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consistently surfacing | ||||
| Bedford, TX | 53 | 39 | 74% ±12 | 1,036 |
| Texarkana, TX | 33 | 22 | 67% ±15 | 78 |
| Mesquite, TX | 30 | 18 | 60% ±17 | 224 |
| Weatherford, TX | 33 | 19 | 58% ±16 | 131 |
| Carrollton, TX | 32 | 16 | 50% ±16 | 239 |
| Surfacing sometimes | ||||
| Odessa, TX | 30 | 12 | 40% ±17 | 76 |
| Burleson, TX | 30 | 11 | 37% ±16 | 336 |
| Arlington, TX | 50 | 16 | 32% ±13 | 730 |
| Plano, TX | 30 | 8 | 27% ±15 | 181 |
| Effectively absent | ||||
| Springdale, AR | 26 | 2 | 8% ±11 | 55 |
| Dallas, TX | 63 | 4 | 6% ±6 | 942 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 57 | 2 | 4% ±5 | 852 |
| Houston, TX | 57 | 0 | 0% ±3 | 199 |
| El Paso, TX | 36 | 0 | 0% ±5 | 4 |
| Little Rock, AR | 28 | 0 | 0% ±6 | 232 |
Measured across every market. The two strongest practices are the ones with the fewest specialist competitors; the weakest are the crowded ones. Bands separate only where the intervals genuinely do not overlap.
| Practice | Answers | Named | Share of answers | Markets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consistently surfacing | ||||
| social security disability | 158 | 61 | 39% ±8 | 15 |
| workers compensation | 144 | 53 | 37% ±8 | 15 |
| personal injury | 45 | 10 | 22% ±12 | 5 |
| Surfacing sometimes | ||||
| immigration | 141 | 29 | 21% ±7 | 15 |
| family law | 45 | 8 | 18% ±11 | 5 |
| criminal defense | 55 | 8 | 15% ±9 | 5 |
Gemini reports the searches it ran before answering. It is not guessing from training data, it is going and looking — and it goes to the directories by name.
Each row is a site the engines read when answering these questions. “Questions lost” counts how many of the tracked questions cited it in an answer that did not name the firm.
| Source | Type | Questions lost | Rival firms it carried | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ●justia.com | directory | 12 | 6 | |
| ●attorneys.superlawyers.com | directory | 12 | 6 | |
| ●avvo.com | directory | 12 | 3 | |
| expertise.com | directory | 11 | 3 | |
| lawyers.com | directory | 9 | 3 | |
| reddit.com | community | 6 | 2 | |
| lawyers.findlaw.com | directory | 5 | 1 | |
| dunhamlaw.com | other site | 5 | 1 | |
| bestlawyers.com | directory | 4 | 2 | |
| markchildresslaw.com | other site | 4 | 1 | |
| mullenandmullen.com | other site | 2 | 4 | |
| eloa.org | other site | 2 | 5 |
Firms appearing in answers to your questions. Highlighted rows were not on the tracked list.
| Firm | Answers | |
|---|---|---|
| Bailey & Galyen Attorneys at Law | 169 | |
| Thomas J. Henry | 51 | |
| Meza Law | 47 | new to us |
| Disability Law | 43 | new to us |
| Angel Reyes & Associates | 33 | |
| Dunham & Jones | 32 | new to us |
| Immigration Law | 30 | new to us |
| Disability Lawyer | 30 | new to us |
| Coats & Todd | 29 | new to us |
| Security Disability Law | 29 | new to us |
| Top Rated Law | 29 | new to us |
| Justia Law | 25 | new to us |
Across every answer we have collected.