About How Families Find Defense Lawyers

What we cover

How Families Find Defense Lawyers covers the family side of criminal defense marketing: how parents, spouses and friends search after an arrest, what they need from a firm’s website, how to explain bail, fees and confidentiality, and the ethics rules that limit outreach. Each guide ends with steps a firm can take itself.

How these guides are researched

We start from primary sources: Google’s documentation for Search and Business Profiles, the ABA Model Rules on confidentiality, third-party payment and solicitation, and public information from courts and jails. We add what we see working with defense firms, without naming clients. We don’t publish statistics we can’t source, and we update guides when rules change.

Who publishes this guide

This guide is written and published by SBD Marketing, a marketing company based in the San Francisco Bay Area that works only with criminal defense law firms across the United States. SBD Marketing builds websites, runs SEO and works on AI search visibility for defense firms, and takes on one firm per city.

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