Employment Law Firm SEO From Wage-Hour to Wrongful Termination
Employment-law firms serve plaintiffs, employers, or both — often across multiple states with wildly different wage-hour rules. We build the claim-type content silos, state-specific statutory authority, class-action intake architecture, and per-office Map Pack coverage that turns your multi-attorney practice into compounding ranking authority.
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The Problems We Fix
State-by-state wage-hour variation isn't reflected in your content
California overtime is different from Texas overtime is different from New York overtime. Your firm represents employees across five states — but your content is written as if FLSA is the only relevant framework. Prospects searching state-specific wage-hour questions find generic 'know your rights' content and retain firms with state-specific content instead.
Class-action prospects don't know they have a class-action case
An individual prospect Googling 'I didn't get paid overtime' is often sitting on a collective-action or class-action claim against their employer. Your firm handles these exact cases — but the intake flow is built for individual wrongful-termination cases, so class-action prospects never get routed to the class-action attorney and the case walks away.
Plaintiff and defense practices inside one firm split the SERP
Your firm represents plaintiffs in some matters and employers in others (a common structure). On Google, that looks like a firm with split identity — and the SERP rewards pure-play plaintiff firms or pure-play defense firms who look focused. Without architectural separation of the two practice silos, both lose to specialists.
One firm, two sides, fifty rulebooks. We rank all of it.
Employment law splits every way at once — plaintiff vs. defense, individual vs. class, and wage-hour rules that change at every state line. Collapse it into one 'employment attorney' page and the SERP hands the work to firms that look more focused than you are.
We build SEO only for law firms, and separation is where employment firms win. You get a strategist who architects distinct claim-type and jurisdiction silos — two focused specialties under one firm entity — so class-action signals get routed correctly instead of walking away as single cases.
- Claim-type and jurisdiction silos that read as focused specialties
- Class-action track-record content drafted to ABA Rule 7.1 disclosures
- Plaintiff and defense practices separated so neither dilutes the other
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claim-type silos, each with jurisdiction-specific authority
Claim-Type + Jurisdiction Content Silos
Wage-hour, wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, whistleblower, non-compete, and FMLA each get their own content silo with jurisdiction-specific statutory content. California FEHA vs. Texas TCHRA vs. federal Title VII — each gets its own ranked silo instead of being collapsed into 'discrimination.'
- Claim-type silos (wage-hour, wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, harassment)
- Jurisdiction-specific statutory content (federal + state per office)
- EEOC and state-agency administrative-practice silo
- Non-compete / trade secret / whistleblower separate silos for enforcement variation
Class-Action Intake Architecture
Class-action detection starts at the search query. Prospects Googling 'I didn't get paid overtime' or 'everyone at my job is classified as exempt' are class-action signals that need different routing than individual wrongful-termination prospects. We build intake forms that detect class-action characteristics, route them to class-action attorneys, and surface the collective-action content that converts individual inquiries into certifiable class actions.
- Class-detection intake forms (multiple-plaintiff signals, policy-level claims)
- Collective-action content (FLSA §216(b) opt-in, Rule 23 class certification)
- Commonality and numerosity educational content
- Class-action track-record pages with compliance-appropriate disclosures
Multi-State / Per-Office Jurisdictional Coverage
Each office gets its own Google Business Profile tuned to the state-specific practice mix that office handles. Geo pages for each state × claim-type combination. State-bar-specific content for employment-law-specialist certifications (California LSI, etc.) where applicable. Consistent firm authority across offices without state-law nuance getting flattened.
- Per-office Google Business Profiles tuned to each state's practice mix
- Geo pages for every state × claim-type combination
- State-bar specialist-certification content where applicable
- Consistent firm authority without state-law nuance getting flattened
Plaintiff/Defense Practice Separation
If your firm represents both plaintiffs and employers, we separate the two practices into architecturally distinct content silos — with separate internal-linking structures, separate landing pages, and separate conversion funnels. Google sees two focused specialties under one firm entity; prospects get routed to the right side of the practice without ambiguity; and neither silo gets diluted by the other's authority.
- Architecturally distinct plaintiff-side and defense-side silos
- Separate internal-linking structures and conversion funnels
- Bio attribution to the right attorneys on each side
- Two focused specialties under one firm entity, neither diluted
From split identity to stacked authority, in three steps
Practice + Jurisdiction Audit
We map how your plaintiff, defense, class-action, and multi-state practices compete against each other on the SERP today — then hand you a prioritized separation plan, even if you never hire us.
Build the Silos
Claim-type and state-specific statutory silos, class-detection intake routing, and separated plaintiff/defense funnels wired into per-office Map Pack coverage.
Compound Each Specialty
Every state build and authored commentary reinforces the right silo — and class-action signals convert individual inquiries into certifiable collective actions.
Every claim type ranking, every class-action signal caught
Imagine a prospect Googling 'everyone at my job is misclassified' landing on collective-action content and routing straight to your class-action attorney — while your defense practice ranks as its own specialty.
- State-specific wage-hour prospects find your content, not generic 'know your rights' pages.
- Class-action signals route to the class-action attorney instead of walking away.
- Plaintiff and defense practices each rank as focused specialties.
- Non-compete and trade-secret work ranks in its own lower-competition silo.
- Each office's Map Pack reflects the state-specific mix it actually handles.
- EEOC and administrative-practice content stops prospects from missing filing deadlines.
Every undifferentiated page is a specialty the SERP gives to someone else.
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