How America Searches for Legal Answers
What 8,103 real legal search queries reveal about how people look for help
More reports →- Only 28% of legal queries are phrased as full questions — most are keyword-style searches (like "settlement calculator") rather than conversational ones, yet they still run long and specific at an average of 5.2 words.
- When people do ask a question, "how" leads the way — searchers want process and definitions far more than they want a sales pitch.
- The long tail is vast: expanding a handful of seed terms surfaced 8,103 distinct queries, evidence that legal questions are highly specific and reward genuinely useful, plain-English answers over broad marketing pages.
Where the queries cluster
The question words people use
The real questions, by topic
Filing & procedure 2286 queries
- how to file personal injury lawsuit
- how to file breach of contract lawsuit
- how long does a case take at labour court
- how long does a case take to be dismissed
- how to motion to dismiss a case
Settlements & payouts 784 queries
- how to calculate settlement amount
- how long personal injury settlement takes
- when do personal injury cases settle
- can personal injury settlement be garnished
- how to calculate settlement value
Personal injury 627 queries
- how much personal injury claim singapore
- what is personal injury lawsuit
- how long does a lawsuit take for a car accident
- how long does a lawsuit take car accident
- how does car accident lawsuit work
Statute of limitations 585 queries
- how to toll statute of limitations
- how long statute of limitations
- how much is the statute of limitations
- what is statute of limitations
- why statute of limitations
Employment 532 queries
- how long does an employment discrimination lawsuit take
- what is an employment discrimination claim
- are employment discrimination cases hard to win
- how long do wrongful termination cases take
- how much wrongful termination
Evidence & proof 411 queries
- how to explain burden of proof
- what is burden of proof explain
- how to complete burden of proof starfield
- how many episodes burden of proof
- why burden of proof never shifts
We expanded a set of common litigation seed terms (settlements, personal injury, statute of limitations, filing and procedure, contracts, and cost) into 8,103 real Google Autocomplete suggestions, which Google ranks by popularity. IMPORTANT: because the set is seeded, the theme mix reflects our starting terms and is NOT a measure of which legal issues Americans face most — it is a snapshot of how people PHRASE and structure legal search within these topics. Every figure is computed directly from the dataset; we invent nothing.
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