What We Learned Auditing 351 Family Law Firms
What I found auditing 351 family law firms across 20 U.S. markets: a 54/100 average, $2.4M a month in fragile ad spend, and why the bar to lead is low.
Standalone answers to specific questions. For the full picture on a channel, start with the five core guides.
What I found auditing 351 family law firms across 20 U.S. markets: a 54/100 average, $2.4M a month in fragile ad spend, and why the bar to lead is low.
A firm paid for 100 AI-written articles and got a year of flat traffic. The repair, the recovery curve, and what AI is actually good for in law firm content.
Lead services sell the same divorce lead to several firms at once. The honest cost-per-signed-case comparison against a pipeline you own, with the math.
The math behind a family law marketing budget: percentage of revenue, cost per signed case by channel, and the paid-search floor below which campaigns starve.
Family law marketing moves ranked by what actually fills consultation calendars, in the order a small firm should deploy them, with the reasoning for each.
A working family law marketing plan fits on two pages: where cases come from, what each channel costs, and what you measure. Here is the template.
Local Services Ads put your firm on top with a Google Screened badge, and you pay per lead, not per click. How the screening, disputes, and volume cap work.
Where family law clients actually come from (referrals, search, maps, ads), and how a newer or growing firm builds each channel in the right order.
How to tell if your law firm's marketing works: track consultations to their source, and calculate cost per signed case against your real close rate.
Most family law calls start in Google's local map pack. The field-by-field playbook to get in, build a review engine, and prove which calls came from search.