September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

Legal Practice Management: AI Visibility Ranking

Software for law firms to manage matters, cases, time tracking, billing, and client trust accounting. Right now, Clio is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 79 and the #1 spot in 69% of answers. Head-to-head: Clio vs MyCase →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Legal AI recs are a genuine toss-up between MyCase and Clio.

MyCase tops the index at 70.8 but Clio sits only 3 points behind, and Clio wins the first-pick slot 61% of the time versus MyCase's 10%, meaning the gap between reach and recommendation priority runs in opposite directions for the two leaders. Smokeball appears in 78% of answers yet almost never lands first, making it the most cited footnote in the category. PracticePanther shows a sharp model split, scoring 68 on ChatGPT but only 30 on Gemini, a fragility that should concern anyone counting on consistent AI referrals.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (2 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Clio	79 ±2.3	▼ 4	83%	1.5	69%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	MyCase	71 ±4	flat	81%	2.2	10%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #2 Gemini #2
3	Smokeball	58 ±4.1	▲ 7	78%	3.5	3%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #3 Gemini #3
4	PracticePanther	51 ±4.5	flat	67%	3.3	0%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #4 Gemini #5
5	CosmoLex	27 ±5.7	flat	43%	4.8	3%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #7 Gemini #4
6	Filevine	22 ±4.2	flat	36%	4.8	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #5 Gemini #6
7	Actionstep	9 ±3.4	flat	18%	5.8	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude Gemini #7
8	Centerbase	6 ±3.6	flat	14%	6.5	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #12 Gemini #9
9	LEAP	4 ±2.5	flat	10%	6.9	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude Gemini
10	Litify	4 ±2.3	flat	7%	5.6	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #10 Gemini #12
11	AWS	4 ±3.4	flat	4%	2.0	1%	ChatGPT Claude #6 Gemini #11
12	Google Workspace	3 ±1.6	▲ 3	7%	6.4	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #8 Gemini
13	Microsoft Entra ID	3 ±3.8	flat	3%	1.0	3%	ChatGPT Claude #9 Gemini #10
14	CARET Legal	3 ±3.2	flat	4%	4.3	0%	ChatGPT Claude Gemini #8
15	QuickBooks	3 ±2.8	flat	6%	6.5	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #11 Gemini

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: HotDocs (2.5), Okta (2.5), Thomson Reuters HighQ (2.4), Lawcus (2.4), Lawyaw (2.2). 62 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 21/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.