1. Start with jurisdiction, not the headline
A news event can attract attention without creating a sound reason for your firm to comment. Bosseo’s published product information describes matching stories to a firm’s practice areas and state, while the service focus specifically calls for using Miami-Dade jurisdiction and practice relevance to select news. Fort Myers Beach is recorded as a municipality in Lee County, Florida. Those facts make geographic discipline important: Miami-Dade County, Lee County, Fort Myers Beach and Florida are not interchangeable labels. A firm serving Fort Myers Beach should ask whether a proposed story concerns a court, agency, statute, rule or event within the jurisdictions it actually serves. It should also distinguish a local incident from a statewide legal development and from a report that has no meaningful connection to the firm’s work.
Recommended approach
Use jurisdiction as an approval question for every proposed page. Ask which authority or location the story concerns, whether that connection is relevant to your practice, and whether the page can explain the issue without implying that your firm represents anyone mentioned. If Miami-Dade coverage is part of the contemplated scope, confirm why it belongs in a Fort Myers Beach firm’s editorial plan rather than assuming that a Florida connection is enough.
