Exhibit A
Criminal Defense Lawyers work in Salinas
Salinas is the seat of Monterey County, and the county courthouse sits in the city, so a share of the defense work in the area is tied to cases that run through Salinas rather than through a smaller outlying court. The city has a steady population and a large agricultural economy around it, and the searches for criminal defense come from people who live and work in the city and the valley. Firms competing for that attention range from solo defense attorneys to small partnerships, and the paid search space around DUI and related terms is contested by those firms. We do not publish a count of firms or a dollar figure for the paid search here, because we have not measured it for Salinas. What we can say is that the demand exists and it is local, and the firms that publish pages matching how people in Salinas actually search are the ones with something to show when that search happens.
