1. Set the geographic boundary before discussing news coverage
A Dunwoody law firm should distinguish the city from its county, metro area and the state. Dunwoody is recorded as a municipality in DeKalb County; those are not interchangeable geographic labels. Bosseo’s public Legal News page describes monitoring local and national legal-news sources for a firm’s state and matching stories to its practice areas. That makes geographic definition a substantive decision. A firm may want coverage relevant to Dunwoody residents, DeKalb County matters, Georgia law or a wider Georgia audience, but each choice changes which stories belong in review. The Census population estimate can help identify the municipality being served, but it cannot establish that residents search for a particular legal topic or that a news page will generate a case.
Recommended approach
At consultation, write down the intended coverage relationship: Dunwoody, DeKalb County, Georgia, or a combination. Then ask Bosseo how the proposed Legal News scope would handle stories whose facts arise outside Dunwoody but whose governing law or affected audience is statewide. Do not approve geographic language that implies a court, county or judicial circuit is the same thing as the city.
