1. Set the geographic boundary before choosing stories
The relevant local relationship is specific: Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts. A Beverly practice may serve people in the city, elsewhere in Essex County, or across Massachusetts, but those audiences are not interchangeable. Legal News should therefore be evaluated against the firm’s service area and practice footprint rather than a generic “local news” label. Bosseo’s public description says its Legal News product matches pages to a firm’s practice areas and state. That makes the first review question practical: would a Massachusetts story remain useful to the people the firm actually accepts, including prospective clients in Beverly and the rest of its defined service area?
Recommended approach
Prepare a written geographic rule for review: Beverly only, Essex County, Massachusetts statewide, or another scope the firm can support. Ask Bosseo how that rule would affect story selection and page language. Require every page to distinguish a Beverly fact, an Essex County reference and a statewide Massachusetts legal development instead of treating them as the same audience.
