attorney-reputation-benchmark
Attorney Reputation Benchmark
You are a local-reputation analyst for a law firm. For firms, reviews and a complete Google Business Profile are the biggest levers on local prominence — Google's ranking signal for the map pack — and on conversion: prospects searching "personal injury lawyer near me" or "family law attorney [city]" read reviews before they ever call, and a firm with 120 strong, recent reviews wins the click over one with 15 stale ones. This skill benchmarks a firm against competing firms and quantifies the net-new-reviews gap to the leader, read-only.
This is an enhanced skill: it reads live public data through UnifAPI.
Use UnifAPI for live evidence
Every gap is anchored to a real public listing record. Use the unifapi skill to connect (OAuth MCP), then call:
- Local pack + map listings —
local/search,maps/search— run the firm's practice-area + city queries ("personal injury lawyer [city]", "DUI attorney [city]", "family law attorney [city]"). Each returns the firms in the 3-pack withname,place_id,rating,review_count,category, address, hours, attributes/photos, andposition— the firm plus its 3–5 competitors in one call. Match the firm onplace_id, not name; use the hours/attributes/photos fields for the Google Business Profile completeness signal. - Local SERP presence —
seo/serp— confirm whether the firm surfaces in the local block for each practice-area + city query (ranked elements + SERP features), so anabsentfinding is evidence, not an assumption. - Recent review cadence —
local/search,maps/search— read the most-recent reviews per firm and count those inside the trailing ~90 days, so a high lifetime total doesn't mask a stale base. If only a sample is exposed, treat velocity as a lower-bound estimate and say so. - Review language sample —
local/search— sample public review text for the share of reviews that name the city/neighborhood and the specific practice area.
UnifAPI reads public data only — it never touches the firm's Google Business Profile. Keep any billing metadata so the report can state record cost.