1. Define the geographic coverage before reviewing news
A San Luis firm should decide what “local” means for its Legal News coverage. San Luis is recorded as a municipality in Yuma County, Arizona. Those are different geographic scopes: a page about San Luis is not automatically a page about every community in Yuma County, and Arizona-wide coverage is broader still. The firm should identify the places it actually serves and determine which stories are relevant to those places. Population can establish that San Luis is a defined municipality, but it cannot show that a particular incident will produce legal searches or qualified inquiries.
Recommended approach
Bring a written service-area map to the consultation. Separate San Luis coverage from Yuma County coverage and broader Arizona coverage. For each practice area, decide which geographic references make a story useful and which would make it too broad to publish under the firm’s name.
