Product Liability Lawyers: AI Market Discovery Index

Benchmark Summary

Morgan & Morgan led valid recommendation coverage in August 2026 at 35.2%, up from 30.1% in July 2026. The gap to the next brand, The Lanier Law Firm, was 3.0 percentage points in August 2026. Excluding the category leader, Wilshire Law Firm posted the largest coverage increase, rising to 11.0% in August 2026 from 8.0% in July 2026. The largest decline was The Lanier Law Firm, falling 13.0 percentage points to 32.2% in August 2026 from 45.2% in July 2026.

Movement this month was significant for three brands, all declines. The Lanier Law Firm fell 13.0 percentage points, from 45.2% in July 2026 to 32.2% in August 2026. Weitz & Luxenberg fell 10.5 percentage points, from 37.7% in July 2026 to 27.2% in August 2026. Baron & Budd fell 9.0 percentage points, from 16.3% in July 2026 to 7.3% in August 2026. No brand posted an increase large enough to register as significant this month; Wilshire Law Firm's coverage rose 3.0 percentage points, to 11.0% in August 2026 from 8.0% in July 2026, within normal month-to-month variation, and its rank-one rate moved from 0.0% in July 2026 to 4.0% in August 2026. The gap between Morgan & Morgan and The Lanier Law Firm swung from a 15.1-point deficit for Morgan & Morgan in July 2026 to a 3.0-point lead in August 2026, a shift of 18.1 points.

Current Benchmark at a Glance

Qualified surface breadth counts the number of canonical AI surface families with at least one qualified observation. The six families are ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and AI Mode.

For the strategic interpretation of this benchmark, read CiteWorks Studio's analysis of How AI Search Is Recommending Product Liability 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 Market Discovery Methodology

Current Brand Standings

How to Read the Standings

• Presence rate: share of qualified observations where the brand is mentioned in any context.
• Valid recommendation coverage: share of qualified observations where the brand receives a valid recommendation.
• 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 or primary recommendation.
• Net sentiment: share of positive mentions minus negative mentions, divided by total mentions.

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

Recommendation Coverage Movement

Largest Decline: The Lanier Law Firm

The Lanier Law Firm fell 13.0 percentage points in valid recommendation coverage, from 45.2% in July 2026 to 32.2% in August 2026. Its presence rate dropped 13.0 points to 35.9%, and its top-three rate fell 11.4 points to 23.3%. The brand remains the second-highest for valid recommendation coverage.

Largest Decline (Additional): Weitz & Luxenberg

Weitz & Luxenberg declined 10.5 percentage points, from 37.7% in July 2026 to 27.2% in August 2026. Its presence rate fell 8.6 points to 33.2%, and its top-three rate dropped 8.0 points to 24.6%.

Largest Decline (Additional): Baron & Budd

Baron & Budd declined 9.0 percentage points, from 16.3% in July 2026 to 7.3% in August 2026. Its presence rate fell 7.7 points to 9.0%. The rank-one rate declined 0.8 points to 1.3%.

Category Leader: Morgan & Morgan

Morgan & Morgan held the lead in August 2026 at 35.2%, up 5.1 points from 30.1% in July 2026. Its presence rate rose 8.1 points to 60.8%, while its top-three rate was essentially flat at 23.9%. The rank-one rate edged down 0.6 points to 16.6%, despite the coverage leadership gain.

Recommendation Placement Snapshot

Coverage alone does not show how prominently a brand is recommended. Morgan & Morgan led both top-three and rank-one rates in August 2026.

Close coverage can hide different first-position rates. Weitz & Luxenberg held a top-three rate 0.7 points above Morgan & Morgan in August 2026, yet its rank-one rate was 10.3 points lower.

Buyer-Intent Distribution

All qualified observations in both months fell into the Brand Recommendation class.

The current public series cannot answer pricing or head-to-head comparison questions; it measures brand recommendation discovery only.

Historical Measurement Record

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

Evidence and Source Layer

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 attributable sales
• Every possible AI response to every possible query
• Organic-search ranking performance
• Social media mention volume
• Private or sponsored channels
• Causality from a metric movement alone

About This Benchmark

The LLM Authority Index AI Market Discovery Index tracks how often and how prominently brands appear in AI-generated answers, providing a neutral, repeatable measure of AI visibility and recommendation patterns across the product liability lawyers vertical.

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

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