Which law firms does AI recommend in Austin?
We asked ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity to recommend law firms in Austin, TX — 6 hiring questions, 18 recorded answers, every one saved. They named 50 different businesses. These are the 15 that came up more than once.
McMinn Law Firm appeared most often, in 5 of 18 answers. 14 other businesses also appeared more than once.
Definition: openness measures how spread out the business names were in these 18 answers. Higher means more dispersed; lower means more concentrated. It is not market saturation, demand, or a quality score.
The 15 law firms that came up more than once.
Ordered by how many of the 18 answers named them. This is not a ranking of quality and none of these are our clients — it is a record of who three assistants surfaced for Austin, TX on July 26, 2026. If you are one of the law firms in this market and you are not on this list, that is the gap.
- McMinn Law Firm
- Goranson Bain Ausley
- Sandoval & James Car Accident & Personal Injury Lawyers
- FVF Law Firm
- Slack Davis Sanger LLP
- Joe Lopez Law
- Todd Law Firm
- Thomas J. Henry Law
- Herrman & Herrman
- Briggle & Polan, PLLC
- Lorenz & Lorenz, PLLC
- Gray Becker, P.C.
- Cofer & Connelly, PLLC
- TK Injury Lawyers
- Anderson Injury Lawyers
Even McMinn Law Firm does not win everything here. It was never named when we asked about best personal injury lawyer, best family law attorney, a separation with a shared house or best criminal defence attorney. Those question types returned different names in our sample.
All three assistants agreed on 3 of them
McMinn Law Firm, Sandoval & James Car Accident & Personal Injury Lawyers, FVF Law Firm were named by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity alike. Agreement across three systems that read different sources is the strongest position available in this sample. In Austin, that happened for 3 businesses.
One employer law office per 1,017 county residents.
Travis County holds 1,286 offices of lawyers with payroll — one for every 1,017 of its 1,307,625 residents, among the densest legal supply in this study. Separately, the assistants named 50 firms for Austin, and directories supplied 33.1% of the citations behind those answers. The office count and recommendation pattern are different measurements; neither causes the other.
City figures: American Community Survey 2019-2023 5-year estimates, Austin city, Texas. County figures: County Business Patterns 2023, Travis County; establishment counts include only businesses with paid employees. The two boundaries are different sizes and are never divided into each other.
In Austin, the evidence sits on justia.com.
None of this is a ranking you can buy into. The assistants named whoever was easiest to verify and safest to repeat, and in Austin they read justia.com and avvo.com to decide it. Fixing that is the same work in every market, so it is written up once: what we build for law firms.
For Austin, the source cited most was justia.com.
All three assistants searched the web before answering and cited what they read. Across the Austin, TX answers they cited 145 sources. These are the ones they leaned on most — the pages actually deciding which law firms get named here:
- justia.com10
- avvo.com7
- coferconnelly.com5
- expertise.com4
- lawyers.com4
- attorneys.superlawyers.com4
- forbes.com3
- joelopezlaw.com3
- eloa.org3
- waynewright.com3
- maafirm.com3
- profiles.superlawyers.com3
- fmltlaw.com3
- reddit.com3
- jasonwrightlaw.com3
- graybecker.com3
- kevinbennettlaw.com3
- dunhamlaw.com3
- lawleaderboard.com3
- byrddavis.com2
Directories and review sites accounted for 33.1% of what was cited for Austin. In this market the aggregator profiles are doing much of the recommending, so a thin or inconsistent listing is not a cosmetic problem here — it is the evidence being read about you.
Everything else the Austin scan turned up.
35 more were named exactly once
These came up in a single answer, from a single assistant, and never again across the other 17. That is the honest shape of Austin: a handful of businesses named repeatedly, and a long tail mentioned once by chance. Visibility that appears here and nowhere above will not survive the next re-run.
- Byrd Davis Alden & Henrichson, LLP
- Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP
- Winckler, Harvey & McConnell, LLP
- Edwards Law Group
- Williams Caputo
- Zinda Law Group (ZDFirm)
- Anderson Injury Lawyers (MAA Firm)
- The Bratton Firm
- García Injury Law
- FVF Law (First Injury Firm)
- Lorenz & Lorenz, L.L.P.
- Colley Firm, P.C.
- The Stewart Law Firm, PLLC
- Kelley Wolff Injury Attorneys
- Newberry Law
- SMB Law, PC
- Tindall England
- Law Office of Aishah McCoy
- Friday Milner Lambert Turner, PLLC (FMLT)
- Powers, Kerr & Rashidi, PLLC
- Hiller Law
- Law Office of Ben Carrasco
- Sandoval Law Firm
- Law Office of Jason Wright
- Kazen Family Law & Divorce Lawyers
- Minton, Bassett, Flores & Carsey, P.C.
- Brand & Resendez Law
- Chris Perri Law
- Law Office of Kevin Bennett
- Vazquez Law Firm
- Dunham & Jones
- Zinda Law Group
- Byrd, Davis, Alden & Henrickson, LLP
- Loewy Law Firm
- Batrice Law Firm
How many each assistant would name
- Google Gemini 29 law firms named in Austin
- ChatGPT 19 law firms named in Austin
- Perplexity 17 law firms named in Austin
The assistants disagreed on 1 of 6 questions
Asked the identical question about Austin, 1 of 6 comparisons produced no shared business at all — three assistants, three separate shortlists. There is no single "AI answer" for this market to optimise against, which is why being named by one assistant tells a Austin owner very little about the other two.
16.7% of answers named nobody at all
In 3 of 18 answers the assistant declined to recommend anyone and pointed the buyer at a directory or a list of things to check instead. Those are answers where no Austin business won anything.
Same questions, other markets.
The law firms study puts all five cities side by side — which brands cross city lines, and which sources decide the answer trade-wide.
Law firms in the other cities we measured
- Las Vegas, NV 45 named · most cited: Naqvi Accident Injury Law
- Tampa, FL 48 named · most cited: Morgan & Morgan (Tampa office)
- Denver, CO 43 named · most cited: Bachus & Schanker, LLC
- Phoenix, AZ 40 named · most cited: Kelly Law Team Phoenix
Other trades in Austin
- Roofing companies 47 named · 21.1% from directories
- HVAC companies 40 named · 20.0% from directories
- Plumbing companies 52 named · 24.4% from directories
- Dental practices 59 named · 21.0% from directories
- Med spas 36 named · 9.7% from directories
Exactly what we asked in Austin.
- Who is the best personal injury lawyer in Austin, TX? commercial
- I was just rear-ended in Austin, TX and the other driver's insurance is calling me. Which local law firm should I contact? situational
- Who is the best family law attorney in Austin, TX? commercial
- My spouse and I are separating in Austin, TX and we own a house together. Which local attorney should I hire? situational
- Who is the best criminal defense attorney in Austin, TX? commercial
- Which personal injury law firm in Austin, TX has the best client reviews? commercial
Method. 6 questions × 3 assistants = 18 answers for Austin, TX alone, collected July 26, 2026 from ChatGPT (gpt-5-mini), Google Gemini (gemini-flash-latest), Perplexity (sonar), with web search enabled because that is what a buyer's app does. Names were resolved across spelling variants first, so one company spelled three ways counts once. Assistants are non-deterministic; this is one dated run, not a standing ranking. The full methodology gives the prompts, the scoring formula, and what these numbers cannot support. Want it for your own business? The free AI visibility report runs it against your market.
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