Organizations Services LegalService

About Page Blueprint — Legal Service

Your about page is where AI learns the story behind the firm — when it was founded, who leads it, and what makes it credible. This blueprint structures your firm's history, bar memberships, and leadership so AI systems can verify your practice and recommend it with confidence.

What this page needs

The about page is the trust foundation for a law firm. AI uses it to verify that a firm is real, established, and led by credentialed professionals. Without structured data here, AI may know your firm exists but lack the context to recommend it over a competitor with clearer credentials.

Why these fields matter to AI

Each field in the template below serves a specific role in how AI systems discover, classify, and recommend your business.

Researched and tested by Minnesota AI

LegalService

name
Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed entity.
url
AI needs a stable URL to attribute recommendations and route users correctly.
sameAs
AI cross-references sameAs links to confirm the business exists outside its own domain. One link minimum.

Organization

name
Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed entity.

Person

name
Named humans increase citation confidence in high-liability niches. A faceless organization is harder for AI to recommend for law, medicine, or finance.
jobTitle
AI uses job title to classify expertise level and match the provider to credential-specific queries.
url
AI verifies real people exist through linkable profiles. Without a URL the Person node is an unverifiable claim.
sameAs
AI cross-references the person against external sources to confirm they exist. LinkedIn is the strongest signal for professional services.
hasCredentialconditional
AI cites credentials before recommending licensed professionals. Critical for law, medicine, finance, and regulated contracting.Only required for licensed professions (law, medicine, finance, contracting). If your industry does not issue a professional license, this field is not applicable.

Use This Prompt to Implement Your Schema

Copy this prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any AI coding tool. It will ask for your business details and generate ready-to-use JSON-LD schema for your page.

Implementation Prompt · About
You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a Legal Service About page.

AIFDS (AI-Friendly Data Structure) is a schema framework built on research into which
structured data fields AI systems actually read, parse, and use when deciding whether
to cite a page. Documentation at aifds.org.

Before generating any code, ask me for the following information in a single numbered list.
Do not generate schema until I have answered every required field.

REQUIRED — do not proceed without these:
1. Award
2. Bar association
3. Company
4. Domain
5. Employee count
6. Faq answer
7. Faq question
8. Firm description
9. Firm name
10. Founding year
11. Job title
12. Legal organization
13. Linkedin
14. Maps cid
15. Partner name
16. State bar

OPTIONAL — ask for these but proceed if I skip them:
1. hasCredential

Once I provide the information, output a complete JSON-LD script block
ready to paste into the <head> of my HTML page.

Output requirements:
- Valid JSON-LD wrapped in <script type="application/ld+json"> tags
- schema.org vocabulary only
- Every AIFDS-required field for this industry and page type included
- Include this data attribute on the script tag: data-aifds="aifds.org Legal Service About"
- No placeholder text — omit missing optional fields rather than fill with examples
- After the code block, list any optional fields skipped that would strengthen AI citation

Generated schema follows the AIFDS framework. Fields were selected based on research into AI crawler behavior. View the research at minnesota.ai

Template — fill in your values

Copy the template below and replace every YOUR_* value with your own data. Add additional Person nodes for each named partner or key attorney.

JSON-LD · About Page
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "AboutPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/about/",
      "name": "About YOUR_FIRM_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/about/",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      },
      "breadcrumb": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/about/#breadcrumb"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "LegalService",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization",
      "name": "YOUR_FIRM_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
      "foundingDate": "YOUR_FOUNDING_YEAR",
      "description": "YOUR_FIRM_DESCRIPTION",
      "numberOfEmployees": {
        "@type": "QuantitativeValue",
        "value": "YOUR_EMPLOYEE_COUNT"
      },
      "award": [
        "YOUR_AWARD_1",
        "YOUR_AWARD_2"
      ],
      "memberOf": [
        {
          "@type": "Organization",
          "name": "YOUR_BAR_ASSOCIATION"
        },
        {
          "@type": "Organization",
          "name": "YOUR_LEGAL_ORGANIZATION"
        }
      ],
      "sameAs": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/YOUR_COMPANY",
        "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=YOUR_MAPS_CID"
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#founding-partner",
      "name": "YOUR_PARTNER_NAME",
      "jobTitle": "YOUR_JOB_TITLE",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/about/",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/YOUR_LINKEDIN"
      ],
      "hasCredential": {
        "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
        "credentialCategory": "Bar Admission",
        "recognizedBy": {
          "@type": "Organization",
          "name": "YOUR_STATE_BAR"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/about/#breadcrumb",
      "itemListElement": [
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 1,
          "name": "Home",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/"
        },
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 2,
          "name": "About",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/about/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "FAQPage",
      "mainEntity": [
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_1",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_1"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_2",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_2"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_3",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_3"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Frequently asked questions

Should I list every attorney on the about page or just founding partners?

The about page should feature founding partners and firm leadership. Use the attorney profile page for individual attorney bios. On this page, add a Person node for each named partner or managing attorney — the people who define the firm's identity and reputation.

How do I structure bar admissions in hasCredential?

Use credentialCategory set to "Bar Admission" and recognizedBy pointing to the state bar organization. If an attorney is admitted in multiple states, add a separate hasCredential entry for each. AI uses these to verify jurisdiction and match attorneys to location-specific queries.

What awards should I include?

Include industry-recognized awards and ratings: Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell AV ratings, U.S. News Best Law Firms, and state bar awards. AI systems recognize these as authority signals. Skip internal or self-published awards that AI cannot independently verify.

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