LifeBack Law Firm has written many blogs on the subject of law firms engaged in geographic fraud and review fraud. Our journey to stop law firms engaged in geographic fraud and review fraud has just begun.
What is law firm geographic fraud and what does it look like? In short, geographic fraud is simply pretending to be at specific address when you are not. The goal is to sell your firm as being “local” when the firm is not even close to being local and is often hundreds if not thousands of miles away. To be clear, the law firm may even lease space at a specific address but the charade is to lease the space, indicate you “could” be there, but the truth is you are never there. What is the purpose of this charade? To bait the unsuspecting public into thinking you are local but then switch what the prospect actually gets.
We have personally witnessed law firms using addresses as “ghost” offices for years on end under the guise of “covid” or some other excuse not meet prospects at the location when the truth is they meet with clients at hearings and including primary locations. The “satellite” offices create the desired impression of being “large” and “local” when none of this is true.
In addition to geographic fraud is review fraud. What do we mean by review fraud? Simply put, review fraud is posting a review strength for a location that does not represent the real review strength of a particular location which is often less. In addition, many firms use “gating” software which gates off bad reviews and only publishes good reviews. It is dishonest and it constitutes unfair trade practices.
Never conduct business with any law firm who lies to you about a) their location or b) their reviews. Ask the law firm if they use review software to harvest their reviews. If they do, do not conduct business with them.
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