If you could, for a modest fee, manipulate the internet so that every time a potential client searches the name of your primary competitors, your name pops up, would you? Should you?

The premise is real. Search engine companies sell to lawyers “keywords” that result in that lawyer’s name appearing when someone’s search uses them (think the search term “divorce lawyer” leading to your name, if that is your objective). So far, innocuous enough.

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