Which business law solicitors in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire do AI assistants actually recommend?

We put the 10 questions a person in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire asks before choosing business law solicitor — cost, specialism, who to use, how to check them — to Claude, 3 times each, 30 answers in all, and recorded every firm the answers named. 8 firms in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire were checked against those answers. 5 of them were named at least once. The rest were not recommended in a single answer.

The league table

Firms are ranked by the number of answers that named them, then by how many different questions. The assistants do not give identical answers twice, so a difference of one or two mentions is noise; being named on questions a rival is absent from is not.

The questions we asked

1. Which commercial solicitors in Reading act for growing limited companies?
2. Which commercial solicitors in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire draft supplier contracts and terms and conditions for businesses?
3. We are a small company near Godalming and need to dismiss an employee properly. Which employment solicitor should we use?
4. Which law firms in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire act for owner-managed businesses on commercial contracts, employment and property?
5. We are leasing a commercial unit in Aldershot. Which solicitors can handle the lease and the commercial property work?
6. Which business solicitors in Reading advise on shareholder agreements and disputes between directors?
7. Which employment solicitors in Godalming write employment contracts and staff handbooks for small employers?
8. A customer is refusing to pay us a large invoice. Which solicitors near Reading do debt recovery and commercial disputes?
9. Which law firms in Aldershot advise on company sales and acquisitions for owner-managed businesses?
10. Which commercial litigation solicitors in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire act for companies in contract disputes?

How this was measured

• Date: 5 October 2026. This is one day, not a trend; the index is re-measured monthly.
• Sample: 10 questions × 1 assistant × 3 runs = 30 answers. 8 firms checked.
• Assistants used: Claude (Anthropic’s Sonnet model, through its API, with web search). Answers from these programming interfaces can differ from what the consumer apps show.
• Counting: a firm is counted when its name appears in an answer. Names are picked out of the answer text automatically, then matched to the firm list.
• Limits: the assistants vary between runs, so small gaps are noise. Firms that were not named may still be recommended by an assistant or a question we did not ask. National chains are left off the list.