Which law firms does AI recommend in Tampa?

The market behind the answers

One employer law office per 1,114 county residents.

Hillsborough County holds 1,337 offices of lawyers with payroll — one for every 1,114 of its 1,489,634 residents, among the densest legal supply in this study. Separately, the assistants named 48 firms for Tampa, and directories supplied 43.2% 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, Tampa city, Florida. County figures: County Business Patterns 2023, Hillsborough County; establishment counts include only businesses with paid employees. The two boundaries are different sizes and are never divided into each other.

How to use the findings

In Tampa, the evidence sits on justia.com.

This is a record of observed answers, not a paid ranking. In Tampa they read justia.com and expertise.com when forming their answers. The industry page explains how we address website and third-party evidence: what we build for law firms.

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Where the answers came from

For Tampa, the source cited most was justia.com.

All three assistants searched the web before answering and cited what they read. Across the Tampa, FL answers they cited 139 sources. These were the most frequently cited sources behind the law firms named here:

• justia.com12
• expertise.com8
• avvo.com6
• superlawyers.com6
• tampatriallawyers.com5
• bestlawfirms.com5
• bestlawyers.com5
• cataniaandcatania.com4
• olderlundylaw.com4
• forthepeople.com3
• attorneys.superlawyers.com3
• lawyers.com3
• reddit.com3
• harrishuntderr.com3
• familymaritallaw.com3
• lawhancock.com3
• leg.state.fl.us2
• floringray.com2
• tampainjuryaccidentlaw.com2
• hunterlawgroup.com2

Directories and review sites accounted for 43.2% of what was cited for Tampa. In this market the aggregator profiles supplied a substantial share of the cited evidence. Check those listings for completeness and consistency.

The full record

Additional results from the Tampa scan.

29 more were named exactly once

These came up in a single answer, from a single assistant, and never again across the other 17. The sample contains a small group named repeatedly and a longer list named once. A single mention may not repeat in the next run.

• Culpepper Kurland
• Kemp Law Group
• Roman Austin Car Accident & Personal Injury Lawyers
• Gunn Law Group
• Lee Gunn
• Tampa Injury Accident Law
• Darrigo & Diaz, P.A.
• Winters & Yonker
• Distasio Law Firm
• Gunn Law Group, P.A.
• Frost Family Law
• Hunter Law Group
• Hughes Law
• Gary S. Dolgin
• Quinn & Lynch, P.A.
• Walters Levine & DeGrave
• Foley Family Law
• Curry Law Group
• Rechel & Associates
• The McKinney Law Group
• Brunvand, Wise & Farinella Law Group
• Todd Foster Law Group
• The Rickman Law Group
• Brian E. Gonzalez, P.A.
• Law Office of W.F. Casey Ebsary Jr.
• Law Office of Mark P. Rankin, P.A.
• Morgan & Morgan (Tampa Headquarters)
• Hancock Injury Attorneys
• Fernandez Law Group

How many each assistant would name

• Google Gemini 26 law firms named in Tampa
• Perplexity 18 law firms named in Tampa
• ChatGPT 17 law firms named in Tampa

The assistants disagreed on 4 of 5 questions

Asked the identical question about Tampa, 4 of 5 comparisons produced no shared business at all — three assistants, three separate shortlists. There is no single "AI answer" for this market to optimize against, which is why being named by one assistant tells a Tampa 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 Tampa business won anything.

The rest of the study

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
• Denver, CO 43 named · most cited: Bachus & Schanker, LLC
• Phoenix, AZ 40 named · most cited: Kelly Law Team Phoenix
• Austin, TX 50 named · most cited: McMinn Law Firm

Other trades in Tampa

• Roofing companies 55 named · 16.5% from directories
• HVAC companies 50 named · 26.9% from directories
• Plumbing companies 48 named · 24.3% from directories
• Dental practices 57 named · 11.8% from directories
• Med spas 49 named · 7.8% from directories

Method

Exactly what we asked in Tampa.

• Who is the best personal injury lawyer in Tampa, FL? commercial
• I was just rear-ended in Tampa, FL 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 Tampa, FL? commercial
• My spouse and I are separating in Tampa, FL and we own a house together. Which local attorney should I hire? situational
• Who is the best criminal defense attorney in Tampa, FL? commercial
• Which personal injury law firm in Tampa, FL has the best client reviews? commercial

Method. 6 questions × 3 assistants = 18 answers for Tampa, FL 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.