Above the Bar Marketing just landed at number 35 on the 2026 Inc. Regionals: Midwest list. For anyone unfamiliar, Inc. Magazine ranks the fastest-growing private companies by region every year, and the Midwest list covers Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. That’s a massive pool of companies. And we cracked the top 35.
Making a list like this feels like a different kind of validation because our growth is directly tied to our clients’ growth. They win cases, bring in more clients, build their practices… and that’s what fuels everything on our end.
We built Above the Bar around one idea: law firms deserve marketing that actually matches the quality of work they do. Real strategy. Content that sounds like it was written by someone who understands the law. SEO that connects injured people and families with attorneys who can actually help them. That philosophy is what got us here.
The Inc. Regionals recognition puts us in the Advertising, Marketing & PR category. We’re listed alongside companies across every industry in twelve states, and we earned our spot by doing what we do best: helping law firms grow.
Our team deserves the credit here. Every single person at Above the Bar has played a role in this growth. The writers who obsess over getting legal content right. The SEO strategists and PPC and LSA team who dig into analytics because something didn’t look right in a campaign. The project managers, content strategist, designers, the developers, the account managers who treat every client’s firm like it’s their own. This ranking belongs to all of them.
Last but not least, it belongs to our clients too. We’ve been fortunate to work with some incredible law firms who trust us with their marketing, their brand, their reputation. That trust isn’t something we take lightly. Every firm that’s stuck with us, referred us, or taken a chance on us when they had a dozen other agencies to choose from… this is their win as much as ours.
We didn’t set out at the beginning of the year saying “let’s make Inc. Regionals.” We set out to do great work for our clients.
Thank you to Inc. Magazine for this recognition, and thank you to everyone who’s been part of this journey. We’re just getting started.
