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Better Lawyers Limited

Law firm · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 216 Christchurch lawyers.

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Checked12 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
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Better Lawyers Limited

Law firm · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#199of 216 lawyers
Overall health0.8/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours9.4

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.101Google listing2.602Reviews2.104Listings and social0.403Map positions0.107Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Better Lawyers Limited is a Christchurch Central City law firm offering legal services to local clients. Located in the central city, the firm handles matters typical of small law practices and presents itself as a point of contact for people seeking legal help. Review themes point to dissatisfaction with client communication and billing for some matters, which appears in recent feedback.

Better Lawyers Limited is a law firm based in Christchurch Central City. The practice identifies as a local legal provider serving clients in the central city area.

The firm offers legal services in the general scope expected of a small lawyers practice. Source material lists the business simply under the Lawyers category and locates it in Christchurch Central City; no additional practice areas or specialties were provided.

Customer feedback in the review snapshot shows repeated dissatisfaction. Reviews indicate clients experienced problems with communication, perceived lack of helpful advice, and concerns about fees or charges for work beyond initial discussions. The average rating in the snapshot is 2.3 and recent comments repeat similar themes about service and billing.

Locally, Better Lawyers Limited is a Christchurch Central City legal practice noted in publicly available listings. What distinguishes the firm in local sources is its central city location and the presence of customer feedback highlighting issues with client experience, especially around communication and costs.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Better Lawyers Limited shows a low overall health on Google Business Listing, indicating significant room for improvement in the profile. The most important findings are the absence of a website link and a meaningful description, plus very few photos and no logo. Addressing these will mainly boost visibility and trust with potential clients in Christchurch.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
  • ✓
    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    WebsiteYour listing has no website link, so a customer who wants to check your prices or your work before ringing has nowhere to go from Google.
  • 2
    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou have no photos on your listing, or close to none, so a customer scrolling past sees a blank where every other business shows their work.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Law firm · Christchurch Centre
Open 5 days ✓
DirectionsCall No website 1
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business
No description yet2
Google listingChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #161 for your Google listing
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Better Lawyers Limited shows a low overall health score for Google reviews, indicating room for improvement in engagement and volume. Key findings highlight that the business has started collecting reviews and has a solid base, but there is no response to customer reviews yet and the rating remains near the lower end. Priorities include increasing owner responses and continuing to grow the review base.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
  • 2
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
  • 3
    Star ratingYour rating sits well below what customers here are used to seeing, and it is the first number they compare when two businesses look otherwise equal.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
2.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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2.3★★★★★3 reviews
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #170 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Better Lawyers Limited shows very low overall health in Google Maps search rankings, with a 0.1 out of 10 score, indicating limited visibility. The top opportunity is to improve aggregate and borough results to move away from the bottom tier. Best performing keyword highlights current relevance for legal services in Avondale, Christchurch, suggesting focus areas for local intent.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbWe are not seeing you in Maps searches in your own suburb, which is the search a customer standing a street away actually makes.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
0.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Seen in 1 search across Christchurch, top three in none
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Better Lawyers Limited2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #213 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Better Lawyers Limited shows a very low social presence health at 0.4 out of 10, indicating significant gaps across key platforms. The strongest immediate gain comes from establishing active profiles on Instagram and Facebook, with consistent branding and contact details, plus consideration of TikTok for broader reach. Adding a Neighbourly and Yellow Directory listing would improve local discovery and trust.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
  • 2
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 3 of them.
0.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
YellowNo listing found
Listings and socialChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #207 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
5.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #106 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
  • 2
    Domain UniquenessWe could not find a domain registered to your business, which means there is no address of your own for a customer to go to and nothing for your Google listing to link to.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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Your websiteNo website of your own1
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here.
0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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No ads from you on any search
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Google search and trafficChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #159 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Better Lawyers Limited has mixed temporal alignment. The firm matches several high-demand midweek hours-especially Tuesday 12-1pm and Thursday 10-11am-but is closed during a comparable number of popular slots, including weekend afternoons and an early Friday morning. Total weekly open hours match 40 well-aligned peak hours, with 41 missed high‑demand hours. No low‑demand open hours were identified.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover more of the busy stretches than the middle of the field, so you are open for most of the searching that happens near you.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
9.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Better Lawyers Limited
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Christchurch Centre
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Opening hoursChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #14 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#199of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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Christchurch lawyersOverall · 216 businesses
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