DUI Lawyers: AI Visibility Market Discovery Index

Benchmark Summary

Questions This Section Answers

• Who leads the DUI Lawyers benchmark in October 2026, and by how much?
• Which brand recorded the largest recommendation coverage increase, and which declined?
• How has the gap between the two leading DUI defense brands changed since July 2026?

Manshoory Law Group leads the DUI Lawyers benchmark in October 2026 with valid recommendation coverage of 22.6%, up from 6.6% in July 2026. The standing gap to the next brand is 7.1 percentage points, with Wallin & Klarich holding 15.5% valid recommendation coverage in October 2026, down from 19.7% in July 2026.

Manshoory Law Group recorded the largest coverage increase, rising 16.0 percentage points from 6.6% in July 2026 to 22.6% in October 2026, and is the only brand flagged as a significant riser for the series. Wallin & Klarich recorded the largest coverage decline, down 4.2 percentage points from 19.7% in July 2026 to 15.5% in October 2026. No brand was flagged as a significant decliner, and no brand moved beyond normal month-to-month variation in October 2026 itself. The gap between the two leading brands has moved in Manshoory Law Group's favor in every month of the series, from a 13.1-point deficit behind Wallin & Klarich in July 2026 to a 7.1-point lead in October 2026.

The benchmark began with 271 prompt-surface observations in October 2026 and produced 84 qualified observations after qualification.

Current Benchmark at a Glance

Qualified surface breadth counts the canonical AI/search surface families with at least one qualified observation: ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and AI Mode. The DUI Lawyers benchmark captured qualified observations across five of the six families in both July and October 2026. August 2026 and September 2026 also recorded five families.

For the strategic interpretation of this benchmark, read CiteWorks Studio's analysis of How AI Search Is Recommending DUI Lawyers

Research Scope and Qualification

The public benchmark is narrower than the raw collection universe by design.

Brand-level percentages use the qualified observations as the public denominator, not the raw collection. AI Visibility Market Discovery Methodology

Current Brand Standings

Questions This Section Answers

• Which DUI defense brands earned valid recommendation coverage in October 2026?
• How do presence rate, top-three rate, and rank-one rate differ across the leading firms?

How to Read the Standings

• Presence rate: share of qualified observations where the brand appears in any form, whether positive, negative, or neutral.
• Valid recommendation coverage: share of qualified observations where the brand appears in a valid recommendation shortlist.
• Top-three rate: share of qualified observations where the brand appears among the top three recommendations.
• Rank-one rate: share of qualified observations where the brand is the first recommendation.
• Net sentiment: positive minus negative mentions divided by total mentions, where present.

For formulas and denominator rules, see AI Visibility Market Discovery Metric Definitions.

Recommendation Coverage Movement

Questions This Section Answers

• Which brands gained or lost recommendation coverage since the July 2026 baseline?
• Was Wallin & Klarich's coverage decline statistically significant, or within normal variation?
• What supporting metrics moved alongside Manshoory Law Group's coverage gains?

Largest Increase: Manshoory Law Group

Manshoory Law Group recorded the largest coverage increase in the DUI Lawyers benchmark, rising 16.0 percentage points from 6.6% in July 2026 to 22.6% in October 2026. The move was flagged as a significant riser for the series and is the only such classification in the benchmark. The firm rose in each of the three months since July 2026: 6.6% in July 2026, 7.3% in August 2026, 12.2% in September 2026, and 22.6% in October 2026. Its valid recommendation count rose to 19 in October 2026 from 4 in July 2026. Supporting measures moved with it: its presence rate rose 17.2 percentage points to 23.8% in October 2026 from 6.6% in July 2026, its top-three rate rose 14.6 percentage points to 17.9% from 3.3%, and its rank-one rate rose 8.6 percentage points to 11.9% from 3.3% over the same period.

Largest Decline: Wallin & Klarich

Wallin & Klarich recorded the largest coverage decline in the benchmark, falling 4.2 percentage points from 19.7% in July 2026 to 15.5% in October 2026. The firm dropped from the coverage lead it held across the earlier months of the series. Its top-three rate fell 1.2 percentage points to 11.9% in October 2026 from 13.1% in July 2026, and its rank-one rate slipped 0.1 percentage points to 4.8% from 4.9%. The decline falls within normal month-to-month variation and was not flagged as significant.

Category Leader: Manshoory Law Group

Manshoory Law Group became the category leader in October 2026 with 22.6% valid recommendation coverage, up from 6.6% in July 2026. The firm also held the highest presence rate at 23.8% in October 2026, up from 6.6% in July 2026, and the highest rank-one rate at 11.9%, up from 3.3%. Its top-three rate was 17.9% in October 2026 against 3.3% in July 2026. Its net sentiment score was 0.9 in October 2026, down from 1.0 in July 2026.

Recommendation Placement Snapshot

Questions This Section Answers

• How did the two highest-coverage DUI brands differ in top-three and rank-one placement?
• Does strong coverage translate into first-position recommendations for these firms?

Coverage alone does not show how prominently a brand is recommended. The two brands with the largest coverage in October 2026 displayed different placement patterns.

Manshoory Law Group placed 17.9% of observations in the top three against 22.6% coverage in October 2026, while its rank-one rate of 11.9% outpaced Wallin & Klarich's 4.8%. The two brands' coverage figures sit 7.1 percentage points apart, and their rank-one rates differ by the same 7.1 percentage points, so the coverage gap and the first-position gap move in step for this pair of brands.

Buyer-Intent Distribution

All qualified observations in both months fell into the Brand Recommendation class, where buyers are seeking direct recommendations for DUI defense lawyers.

The current public series measures brand-recommendation discovery only and does not yet contain qualified observations in the pricing and value or multi-brand comparison classes.

Historical Measurement Record

Questions This Section Answers

• How many qualified observations has the benchmark captured each month?
• When did the coverage lead change hands, and who held it before October 2026?

This is an evergreen benchmark URL. New measurements are added to the same report.

The coverage lead changed hands in October 2026, ending Wallin & Klarich's hold across the earlier months of the series.

Evidence and Source Layer

Questions This Section Answers

• What evidence does each prompt-level observation capture?
• Does a source's presence in AI citations prove it caused a recommendation?

The benchmark is built from prompt-level observations that retain the query, AI/search surface, answer, brand outcome, recommendation placement, sentiment, and, where exposed, citations or attributable evidence sources. Source presence is evidence about the information environment. It is not automatically proof that the source caused the recommendation.

Scope Boundaries

• Market share or attributable sales
• Every possible AI response
• Organic-search ranking
• Social mention volume
• Private or sponsored channels
• Causality from a metric movement alone

The benchmark cannot establish causality from a metric movement alone, and none of these areas are covered by the public series.

Top 10 Cited Domains

Across all AI platform responses in October 2026, the benchmark observed 2,251 citations drawn from 801 unique domains.

Citations are concentrated at the top of the list, with google.com alone accounting for 18.7% of all citations observed, and the remainder of the top 10 distributed thinly at 1.3% to 5.1% each. Two tracked brands' own domains appear in the top 10: wklaw.com at rank 3 and greghillassociates.com at rank 5. Beyond the search and video platforms, the list mixes legal directories and reference sources such as justia.com and codes.findlaw.com, community discussion on reddit.com, and attorney websites including losangelescriminallawyer.pro and egattorneys.com.

About This Benchmark

The LLM Authority Index AI Visibility Market Discovery Index tracks how often and how prominently brands appear in AI-generated recommendations across the six canonical AI/search surface families.

• AI Visibility Market Discovery Methodology
• AI Visibility Market Discovery Metric Definitions
• AI Visibility Market Discovery Research Standards
• Modeled AI Visibility Authority Value

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