For Attorneys and Law Firms
Remove Martindale-Hubbell & Lawyers.com Reviews
Pay Only After Removal
A client review or peer review on your Martindale-Hubbell or Lawyers.com profile can follow your name into every search. Martindale-Hubbell says attorneys cannot choose which reviews display, but that it may remove reviews with inappropriate content and that you can ask by using the Report Abuse button. We tell you honestly which of your reviews have a real basis, build the case, and file it. You pay only after a review is confirmed removed.
Pay Only After Removal
Strategy by Anthony Will, Founder & CEO · 13+ years in ORM · 5,000+ clients- You cannot pick which reviews show. Martindale-Hubbell says attorneys do not have the option of choosing which reviews display on their profile. Removal is Martindale-Hubbell's decision, made under its policies. How it works here →
- Report Abuse is the stated route. Martindale-Hubbell says an attorney who wants a review considered for removal should click the Report Abuse button next to it. A documented report is what we file. What qualifies →
- You pay only on results. No retainer and no upfront fee. Our fee is collected only after the review is confirmed removed. Our process →
What is Martindale-Hubbell and Lawyers.com review removal?
The short answer
Martindale-Hubbell and Lawyers.com review removal is the process of getting a client review or a peer review taken down from an attorney profile because it contains inappropriate content or was not submitted by a genuine client. Martindale-Hubbell publishes reviews on both Martindale.com and Lawyers.com, and says a client review is submitted after the reviewer completes a survey and verifies by email. It says it cannot confirm the lawyer-client relationship with certainty, but that every reviewer must affirm they were a client of the attorney or firm before submitting. Its stated position is that attorneys do not choose which reviews display, that Martindale-Hubbell may remove reviews with inappropriate content in accordance with its policies, and that an attorney who wants a review considered, or who is concerned a review was not submitted by a client, should click the Report Abuse button. Peer reviews and client reviews both carry a written-response option. A real client's honest rating, even a low one, is not removable.
How Reputation Resolutions handles Martindale-Hubbell and Lawyers.com reviews
Our team has handled review removal for lawyers and law firms, so we start from how the platform describes its own process. Martindale-Hubbell says the Report Abuse button is the route for asking it to consider removing a review, and that it removes only reviews with inappropriate content under its policies. In the pages we reviewed, it does not publish a detailed list of what counts as inappropriate content or a turnaround time, so we do not pretend to know one. We tell you that plainly.
What we can do is give the request something to stand on. We read each review for the problems the platform does recognize: a reviewer who was not a client of the attorney or firm, content that is abusive or contains personal attacks, a review posted on the wrong attorney or firm, and a cluster of near-identical reviews that suggests a coordinated attack. We assemble the supporting documentation without disclosing client confidences, and file the Report Abuse request with that case attached.
We are direct about the limits. Martindale-Hubbell says it cannot disclose who submitted a review, so a non-client claim is argued from the content and the pattern, not from a name. A real client's honest rating stays up. Martindale-Hubbell also describes an option for attorneys to suppress peer reviews or client reviews by contacting its Customer Support team, and we explain what that does and does not do before you choose. Our fee on removal is collected only after Martindale-Hubbell confirms the removal.
How It Works Here
What Martindale-Hubbell says about its own reviews
Attorneys cannot choose which reviews show
Martindale-Hubbell says attorneys and law firms do not have the option of choosing which reviews display on their profile, for either peer reviews or client reviews.
Inappropriate content can be removed
It says it may remove reviews with inappropriate content in accordance with its policies, and that an attorney who wants a review considered should click the Report Abuse button next to it.
Reviewers affirm they were a client
Martindale-Hubbell says it cannot confirm the lawyer-client relationship with certainty, which can be confidential, but that every reviewer must affirm they were a client before submitting. A firm concerned that a review did not come from a client is told to click Report Abuse.
Reviewer identity is confidential
It says it cannot disclose who submitted a review or whether a particular client has submitted one. A non-client claim therefore rests on the content and the pattern of the review.
A written response is available
All attorneys and firms can post a written response to feedback, and subscribers can choose up to two reviews with written feedback to display at the top of the section. Attorneys can also ask Customer Support to suppress peer or client reviews, which replaces all scores and written feedback with a notice that the lawyer has chosen not to display them.
What Qualifies
The review problems worth reporting
Reviewer was not a client
Because reviewers must affirm they were a client, a review from an opposing party, a competitor, or someone with no relationship to the firm can be reported as not submitted by a client. We document why the content points that way.
Abusive or inappropriate content
Personal attacks, threats, and abusive language are the clearest example of inappropriate content. A harsh but honest account of a real engagement is a different thing and will usually stay.
Wrong attorney or firm
A review that describes a matter the attorney or firm did not handle, or that appears to be about a different lawyer, is a mismatch we document in the report.
Coordinated or repeated reviews
Several near-identical reviews appearing together, especially after a dispute, can indicate an attack rather than genuine client feedback. We document the pattern and file it.
Peer review disputes
Peer reviews come from other attorneys. A peer review that is abusive, or from someone with a clear conflict, can be reported the same way. A peer's honest professional assessment is not removable.
How It Works
How we remove a Martindale-Hubbell or Lawyers.com review
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Free review assessment
Know what qualifies.We read every negative review on your profiles and tell you honestly which have a real basis and which will stay. No cost. No commitment.
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Build the case
Not a general complaint.We match each qualifying review to the specific problem it presents and assemble documentation that does not disclose client confidences.
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File and follow up
Direct submission.We file the Report Abuse request with the case attached, track the outcome, and follow up through the platform's support channels if it is declined.
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You pay only after removal
Pay after. Not before.Our fee is collected only after Martindale-Hubbell confirms the review is removed. If it stays up, you owe nothing for it.
Free to find out what qualifies.
Get a free, honest assessment of what we can actually do, with no upfront cost and no obligation.
Honest Timelines
Honest timelines
Martindale-Hubbell does not state a turnaround for Report Abuse requests in the pages we reviewed, so these are what the platform says plus what we can promise about our own process.
We found no stated turnaround for Report Abuse requests. Anyone promising a date is guessing.
Reviewers must affirm they were a client, and Martindale-Hubbell tells firms to report reviews they believe did not come from one.
A real client's honest rating stays up. A professional written response is the right tool.
Suppression is a separate option the platform describes. It removes all scores and written feedback, including the good ones.
AI Search & LLMs
What ChatGPT & Google AI Overviews say about your firm
More people now read an AI answer before they ever click a result. For your firm, that answer is the new first impression. If it repeats an old complaint, a false claim, or a competitor's talking point, it shapes the decision before you even know the conversation happened.
The answer is assembled from sources. We change the sources.
ChatGPTGoogle AI Overviews
Gemini
Perplexity
ClaudeAI answers trace back to what ranks
Google says its AI Overviews are grounded in its core Search ranking, and ChatGPT and Perplexity cite what is indexed and authoritative. So what AI says about you is not random, it comes from sources you can actually influence.
We audit what AI says today
We prompt ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews the way real people ask about you, document every answer, and trace each claim back to the source feeding it.
We correct it at the source
We remove or suppress the false and damaging sources, strengthen accurate authoritative content, and reinforce your verified entity data and Knowledge Panel, so as the models re-read the web their answers move with the truth.
We are honest about the limits
No one can edit an AI model's output directly, and we will not pretend otherwise. Change comes from the sources and takes time as models refresh; we monitor each engine and re-check rather than assume one fix holds.
Monitor
We track what AI says about your firm, monthly
A recurring prompt panel across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews logs how you are described, what gets cited, and what changed, so a bad answer is caught before it spreads.
AI reputation monitoring →Influence
We change the sources AI draws from
No one can edit an AI's answer directly. We correct, remove, or outrank the sources behind it, structure your own site so models cite it (LLM SEO), and build presence on the third-party surfaces models trust (LLM seeding).
LLM seeding & LLM SEO →Why We're Different
Doing it yourself vs. Reputation Resolutions
| Feature | Reporting It Yourself | Reputation Resolutions |
|---|---|---|
| The report | Clicking Report Abuse with no explanation | A documented case tied to the specific problem with the review |
| Knowing your odds | You find out after you try | We assess which reviews have a real basis before you commit |
| Client confidentiality | Easy to over-explain and disclose a client matter | Documentation is prepared so it does not reveal client confidences |
| Cost | Free, but often no result | No upfront fee. You pay only after removal is confirmed |
| Honesty | No one tells you if a review is a long shot | We tell you up front, including when suppression or a response is the better path |
Who runs your case
Senior specialists, no junior handoffs
Reputation Resolutions is run and managed by a world-class team of online reputation management experts. Your case is handled by senior, multidisciplinary specialists: removal strategists who know each platform's rulebook, SEO and content experts who rebuild your search results, legal partners for the matters that need them, veteran PR professionals, and AI-search specialists who help you control what LLMs like ChatGPT say about you. There are no junior handoffs and no learning on your case, and every person here treats your name as if it were their own.
Get Started
Schedule a Free Consultation With Our Review Removal Specialists
A free review of your Martindale-Hubbell and Lawyers.com profiles: which reviews have a real basis, which will stay, and what a removal would involve.
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Martindale & Lawyers.com FAQs
Martindale-Hubbell and Lawyers.com Review Removal, Answered Honestly.
The same straight talk we give every attorney on their free consultation.
Sometimes. Martindale-Hubbell says it may remove reviews with inappropriate content in accordance with its policies, and that an attorney who wants a review considered should click the Report Abuse button next to it. A real client's honest rating is not removable.
No. Martindale-Hubbell says attorneys and firms do not have the option of choosing which reviews display on their profile. You can report a review, post a written response, or ask Customer Support about suppression, but you cannot delete a review.
Martindale-Hubbell says to click the Report Abuse button next to the review on the profile. We prepare the report with the specific problem documented and file it for you.
Martindale-Hubbell says every reviewer must affirm they were a client, that it cannot confirm the relationship with certainty, and that a firm concerned a review was not submitted by a client should click Report Abuse. Because it says it cannot disclose who submitted a review, we argue this from the content and the pattern, without revealing any client information.
Martindale-Hubbell says attorneys can suppress their peer reviews or their client reviews by contacting its Customer Support team. Suppression removes all scores and written feedback, including positive ones, and replaces them with a notice that the lawyer has chosen not to display the reviews. It is a trade-off, and we walk through it with you before you decide.
Martindale-Hubbell says all attorneys and firms can post a written response. Be careful: confidentiality duties under your state's rules mean a public reply should not confirm someone was a client or discuss their matter, even if the review is false. Follow your own bar's rules, and consider asking us for a short, general response.
No. Martindale-Hubbell and Lawyers.com are run by the same company and share a review process, but Avvo is a separate platform with its own rules. We have a separate page for Avvo review removal.
We build the case around what is documentable about the review itself and do not disclose client confidences. Advertising and communication rules differ by state, so follow your own bar's rules and speak to your ethics counsel if you have a specific question. We do not give legal advice.
Martindale-Hubbell does not state a turnaround for Report Abuse requests in the pages we reviewed. We give you a realistic expectation for your case and keep following up until there is a decision.
FindLaw is a separate directory from Martindale-Hubbell and Lawyers.com. If a FindLaw page is the problem, see our FindLaw record removal page.
Martindale-Hubbell says its reviews can display ratings stars in Google search results. A review that should not have been published can therefore be seen wherever your name is searched.
The assessment is free and there is no upfront fee. Our fee is collected only after a review is confirmed removed, and if it is not removed you owe nothing for it. We give you a transparent quote on the consultation.
AI assistants and Google's AI Overviews increasingly summarize what clients say about a lawyer. Removing a review that should not have been published removes it as a source for those answers too.
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