Immigration Law Firms: AI Visibility Market Discovery Index

Benchmark Summary

Questions This Section Answers

• Which immigration law firm leads the AI recommendation benchmark, and by how much?
• Did any firm's coverage move beyond normal month-to-month variation in October 2026?

Wildes & Weinberg leads the Immigration Law Firms AI Visibility Market Discovery Index in October 2026 with 87.0% valid recommendation coverage. The next closest brand, Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners, reached 21.7% coverage in October 2026, leaving a 65.3-point gap behind the leader.

October was a quiet month for the category. No brand's month-over-month change in valid recommendation coverage moved beyond normal variation, and Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners remains the one brand with a movement beyond normal variation across the full series, rising from 2.9% in July 2026 to 21.7% in October 2026. The largest coverage increase over that span belongs to Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners, up 18.8 points since the baseline. The largest decline over the same span belongs to Barst & Mukamal, which moved from 4.3% valid recommendation coverage in July 2026 to 0.0% in October 2026, a drop of 4.3 points that sits within normal month-to-month variation; its presence rate over the same period moved from 5.7% to 0.0%.

The benchmark began with 53 prompt-surface observations in October 2026 and 238 in July 2026, producing 46 and 70 qualified observations respectively after qualification.

Current Benchmark at a Glance

Qualified surface breadth counts the canonical AI/search surface families with at least one qualified observation. The six families benchmarked are ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and AI Mode. In October 2026, the benchmark captured qualified observations across ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, AI Overviews, and AI Mode.

For the strategic interpretation of this benchmark, read CiteWorks Studio's analysis of How AI Search Is Recommending Immigration Law Firms

Research Scope and Qualification

Questions This Section Answers

• How many prompt-surface observations qualified for the October 2026 benchmark?
• Why is the public benchmark narrower than the raw collection universe?

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. For full details, see the AI Visibility Market Discovery Methodology.

Current Brand Standings

Questions This Section Answers

• How do the tracked immigration law firms rank by valid recommendation coverage in October 2026?
• What separates Wildes & Weinberg from the rest of the tracked firms across presence, top-three, and rank-one rates?

Current-month metrics for October 2026, sorted by valid recommendation coverage.

How to Read the Standings

• Presence rate: share of qualified observations where the brand appears in any form.
• Valid recommendation coverage: share of qualified observations where the brand receives a valid, attributable recommendation.
• Top-three rate: share of qualified observations where the brand appears among the top three recommended options.
• Rank-one rate: share of qualified observations where the brand is the first or only recommendation.
• Net sentiment: positive mentions minus negative mentions divided by total mentions, on a scale from -1 to 1.

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

Recommendation Coverage Movement

Questions This Section Answers

• Which immigration law firm recorded the largest coverage increase since the July 2026 baseline?
• How has Wildes & Weinberg's coverage and placement held up across the four measurement months?

Baseline-to-current movement across the series, July 2026 to October 2026.

Largest Increase: Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners

Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners recorded the largest coverage increase in the series, moving from 2.9% in July 2026 to 21.7% in October 2026 (10 valid recommendations out of 46 observations), a gain beyond normal variation. The brand rose in each of the three months since July 2026, from 2.9% to 5.5% in August 2026, to 14.0% in September 2026, and to 21.7% in October 2026. The most recent month-over-month step was within normal variation on its own. Presence rate moved in step across the series, rising from 2.9% in July 2026 to 21.7% in October 2026. Top-three rate rose from 1.4% to 15.2% over the same period, while rank-one rate moved from 1.4% to 4.3%.

Category Leader: Wildes & Weinberg

Wildes & Weinberg remained the category leader in October 2026 with 87.0% valid recommendation coverage out of 46 observations, holding within normal month-to-month variation across the series (87.1% in July 2026, 90.9% in August 2026, 86.0% in September 2026, 87.0% in October 2026). Coverage and presence are holding steady, while top-three and rank-one placement sit well below their July levels. The brand's presence rate moved from 88.6% in July 2026 to 87.0% in October 2026. Its top-three rate moved from 72.9% in July 2026 to 50.0% in October 2026, and its rank-one rate moved from 38.6% to 17.4% over the same period. On both placement measures, October 2026 improved on September 2026, when the top-three rate stood at 46.0% and the rank-one rate at 24.0%.

Stable Group

Bretz & Coven rose from 1.4% in July 2026 to 4.3% in October 2026, extending a two-month rising streak, and Spar & Bernstein moved from 2.9% to 4.3% over the same span, both within normal variation. Barst & Mukamal declined from 4.3% in July 2026 to 0.0% in October 2026 and Transparent Justice Law Firm moved from 1.4% to 0.0%, each within normal month-to-month variation for coverage. No brand recorded a coverage decline beyond normal variation across the series.

Transparent Justice Law Firm

Transparent Justice Law Firm recorded 0.0% valid recommendation coverage in October 2026, down from 1.4% in July 2026. Presence rate, top-three rate, and rank-one rate all stand at 0.0% for October 2026, and net sentiment is 0.00, across the same qualified-observation denominator used for every tracked brand in this benchmark.

Wildes & Weinberg records 87.0% on valid recommendation coverage, while Transparent Justice Law Firm stands at 0.0%. The more important issue is what that gap means for Transparent Justice Law Firm's recommendation position. Even Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners, the fastest-moving brand in the category, reached 21.7% valid recommendation coverage and 15.2% top-three rate in the same period, while Transparent Justice Law Firm registered no valid recommendations, no top-three placements, and no presence of any kind in October 2026. This is a material recommendation gap on the metric the benchmark itself treats as the primary measure of standing, and it has moved further from baseline rather than toward it since July 2026.

Highest-priority diagnostic: Why did Transparent Justice Law Firm's already-low valid recommendation coverage (1.4% in July 2026) fall to zero by October 2026, and what would it take to re-establish baseline presence and recommendation coverage in AI-surfaced answers for this category?

Recommendation Placement Snapshot

Questions This Section Answers

• Which firms appear in the top three more often than they appear first?
• How far did Wildes & Weinberg's top-three and rank-one placement fall from the July 2026 baseline?

Coverage alone does not show how prominently a brand is recommended. Placement rates reveal how often a brand appears at the top of the answer, not just within it.

Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners' top-three rate of 15.2% in October 2026 stood well above its 4.3% rank-one rate, indicating the firm appeared within the top three options more often than it appeared first. Wildes & Weinberg's 50.0% top-three rate in October 2026 stood above its 17.4% rank-one rate. Spar & Bernstein's 2.2% top-three rate carried the same 2.2% rank-one rate, showing that close coverage can still hide very different first-position rates.

Buyer-Intent Distribution

Questions This Section Answers

• Which buyer-intent class do all qualified observations belong to, and which classes are still empty?

In all months, the qualified observations fell into the Brand Recommendation class, where a user sought a specific recommendation for a legal service provider.

The current public series measures the Brand Recommendation class of discovery and does not yet contain qualified observations in the Pricing & Value or Multi-Brand Comparison classes.

Historical Measurement Record

Questions This Section Answers

• How many qualified observations were recorded at each measurement point from July to October 2026?
• Which coverage movements across the series were large enough to exceed normal variation?

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

Evidence and Source Layer

Questions This Section Answers

• What evidence does each benchmark observation retain about the query, surface, and recommendation outcome?
• Does source presence prove that a source 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

This public benchmark does not measure:

• Market share or revenue attribution for any brand.
• Every possible AI response or surface beyond those benchmarked.
• Organic-search ranking positions.
• Social mention volume or engagement.
• Private or sponsored channels.
• Causality from a metric movement alone.

Top 10 Cited Domains

Questions This Section Answers

• Which domains were cited most often across AI platform responses in this measurement period?
• What types of sources dominate the visible citation layer in this immigration law vertical?

Across all AI platform responses in this measurement period, the benchmark recorded 353 citations drawn from 108 unique domains.

Citations are heavily concentrated at the top: the leading domain accounts for more than a third of all citations, and the ten domains shown here together account for the majority of the 353 citations observed, with the remaining 98 domains taking the balance. One tracked brand's own domain, wildeslaw.com, appears in the top 10, cited across four platforms, alongside a mix of legal directories (justia.com, attorneys.superlawyers.com, chambers.com), other law firm sites, a bar association site, and a video platform. Directory, bar association, and firm-owned sources dominate the visible citation layer in this vertical.

About This Benchmark

The LLM Authority Index AI Visibility Market Discovery Index tracks how AI/search surfaces discover and recommend brands within a vertical. It is a neutral industry benchmark, and each tracked brand is treated on its own terms.

Canonical research links:

• 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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