What Is Google Screened? The Badge, the Rename, Who Qualifies
Google Screened was the Local Services Ads badge for lawyers, financial planners and real estate agents. Google replaced it and Google Guaranteed with one Google Verified badge in late 2025. The checks by category, the three-to-four-week process, and what it costs, read from Google's pages on October 19, 2026.
Oct 19, 2026
How to Get Law Firm Clients: Intake, Referrals and Search
The average law firm takes 42 hours to answer a web form and signs 14% of its inquiries. Fix intake first, then referrals, profile and reviews, then paid. With the arithmetic.
Aug 16, 2026
Law Firm SEO: The 2026 Playbook for Ranking a Practice
Law firm SEO is local SEO with two complications: intent splits hard by practice area, and your state bar regulates advertising. The page structure that ranks, and the waste to skip.
Aug 16, 2026
Law Firm Website Design: 5 Real Examples Reviewed (2026)
Five live personal injury law firm websites reviewed honestly. What each gets right, what we would change, the patterns worth copying, and what a legal website costs in 2026.
Aug 16, 2026