Exhibit A
Employment Lawyers work in Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids runs on manufacturing, healthcare and office employers, and the employment law work follows the employers. The downtown legal cluster around Monroe Center and the courts on Ottawa Avenue holds the established firms, while smaller practices sit out along the Beltline and in the suburbs where the plants and hospital campuses are. Search demand for employment lawyers here is steady rather than seasonal, and it is mostly people searching after something has already happened at work. The firms competing for those searches are a mix of downtown boutiques, general practice firms that take employment cases alongside other work, and a few larger regional firms with Grand Rapids pages. Paid search in this market is carried by a small number of firms bidding on the obvious terms, which leaves the longer, more specific searches open to firms that publish for them.
