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Google Ads for Law Firms

Stop paying for clicks.
Start signing cases.

Legal PPC is the most expensive search advertising category on the internet. Mismanaged campaigns burn through budgets fast and leave firms with nothing to show for it. We build and manage Google Ads campaigns that put your firm in front of the right people at the right moment, and make every dollar count.

$50-150
Cost per click for top PI keywords in major metros
Day 1
When your ads can start generating calls
100%
Law firm focused, no other industries
M-T-M
Month-to-month contracts, always
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Legal PPC is unforgiving if you don’t know what you’re doing.

A personal injury keyword in a major market can cost $50 to $150 per click. Family law and criminal defense keywords are cheaper, but still expensive compared to almost any other industry. Without the right negative keyword strategy, match types, landing pages, and bid management, you will drain your budget on clicks that never turn into clients. We have seen firms spend thousands of dollars a month with nothing to show for it. We fix that.

Our Law Firm PPC Services

Every part of our PPC management is designed around one metric: cost per signed case. Not cost per click, not impressions, not click-through rate. Cases.

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Campaign Build and Setup

We build your Google Ads campaigns from scratch with the right structure for legal. That means separate campaigns by practice area, tightly themed ad groups, match types selected by intent, and conversion tracking wired up before a single dollar is spent.

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Keyword Strategy for Legal

Legal keyword research is not like other industries. We identify the terms your ideal clients type when they are ready to hire, separate them from research queries that waste budget, and build a negative keyword list that tightens your targeting from day one.

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Landing Page Optimization

Sending ad traffic to your homepage is one of the most common and costly mistakes in legal PPC. We build or optimize dedicated landing pages for each practice area that are designed to convert visitors into intake calls, not just inform them.

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Bid Management and Budget Control

We manage bids actively, not passively. That means adjusting by device, location, time of day, and search term performance. Your budget should not be spent at 10am on a Tuesday the same way it is spent at 8pm on a Thursday. We optimize for when your clients are actually searching.

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Call Tracking and Attribution

Clicks do not pay your bills. Calls do. We set up call tracking so you know exactly which keywords, ads, and campaigns are generating phone calls, and which ones are just eating budget. You’ll know what’s working before you spend another dollar.

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Reporting That Means Something

You will not get a vanity metrics PDF from us. Our reports show you cost per call, cost per qualified lead, and where your budget is going, with clear recommendations for what to do next. If something isn’t working, we tell you and we fix it.

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How We Launch Your Campaigns

A clear process from audit to active campaigns, built so you know exactly what’s happening and why at every stage.

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Free PPC Audit

We review your existing campaigns (or your competitive landscape if you’re starting fresh) and identify exactly where money is being wasted or left on the table.

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Strategy and Structure

We map your campaigns by practice area, define the keyword strategy, set up conversion tracking, and align your landing pages to your ad groups before anything goes live.

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Launch and Optimize

Campaigns go live. We monitor closely in the first 30 days, trimming wasted spend and doubling down on what’s generating calls. No set-it-and-forget-it.

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Report on Cases

Every month you get a clear view of cost per call, cost per signed case, and where your budget went. We make decisions based on cases, not clicks.

Legal PPC is not like running ads for a plumber.

The keywords are more expensive, the compliance stakes are higher, and the cost of a poorly run campaign is much steeper. You need someone who has been in the legal advertising trenches, not someone learning on your dime.

  • We know which practice areas have the best ROI in your market and how to structure campaigns around them
  • Negative keyword lists built specifically for legal, so you’re not paying for “free lawyer” or law school searches
  • Landing pages written and structured for legal intent, not generic conversion templates
  • We also audit your intake process, because a great campaign means nothing if calls aren’t being answered and converted
  • Month-to-month contracts because we earn your business every month, not just at the start
  • Full transparency on spend: you always know exactly what’s going to Google and what’s going to management

Us vs. Everyone Else

The difference shows up in your monthly report and your intake call volume.

The Lawyers’ Marketer
Typical Agency
Law firms only
Any client they can find
Legal-specific negative keywords
Generic exclusion lists
Optimize for signed cases
Optimize for clicks and CTR
Dedicated practice area landing pages
Traffic to your homepage
Month-to-month contracts
Long lock-ins upfront
Intake audit included
Stops at the click

The benchmarks we hold ourselves to

These are the outcomes we aim for with every law firm PPC campaign we run.

Day 1
Leads can start coming in
Unlike SEO, paid search generates results immediately. Once campaigns go live, qualified prospects can call your firm the same day. The key is making sure the campaign is built correctly before it goes live.
1 case
Can cover months of ad spend
In most practice areas, a single signed case generates enough in fees to cover multiple months of Google Ads spend. The question is not whether PPC costs money. It’s whether it costs less than the cases it brings in.
Full view
From click to signed case
We track the complete chain from keyword to call to intake to signed case. Most agencies stop at the click. We don’t, because stopping at the click tells you almost nothing useful about whether your campaign is actually working.

What law firms ask us before getting started

Straight answers on how legal PPC works, what it costs, and what you should expect.

How much should my law firm spend on Google Ads?
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It depends on your practice area and market. Personal injury keywords in a major metro can run $50 to $150 per click. Family law and criminal defense are cheaper but still competitive. The better question is: what is a signed case worth to your firm? If one case generates $5,000 in fees and a campaign costs $2,000 a month and signs one case per month, it is working. We focus on cost per signed case, not cost per click.

How quickly will I see results from PPC?
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Paid search can generate calls from day one, which is one of its biggest advantages over SEO. That said, most campaigns take 30 to 60 days to fully optimize as we gather real performance data, trim wasted spend, and refine targeting. Month one is a strong launch. Month two and three are when campaigns really hit their stride.

What’s the difference between my ad budget and your management fee?
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Your ad budget goes directly to Google. You pay Google for clicks. Our management fee is separate and covers strategy, campaign build, ongoing optimization, landing page work, reporting, and everything else we do to make those clicks worth paying for. We are always transparent about how these two numbers are structured so you know exactly where every dollar is going.

Why have other agencies not been able to make PPC work for us?
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A few common reasons. Generic agencies apply a generic structure that doesn’t account for how expensive legal keywords are or how different legal search intent is from other industries. They often use broad match keywords that burn through budget on irrelevant searches, send traffic to homepages instead of practice-area landing pages, and report on clicks rather than cases. We fix all of that before we spend a dollar.

Should I run PPC and SEO at the same time?
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For most firms, yes. PPC generates leads quickly and is ideal for high-value, time-sensitive practice areas. SEO compounds over time and brings in leads at a lower long-term cost per acquisition. Running both together also gives you better data. You can see which keywords convert in paid search and prioritize those same terms in your SEO strategy. They make each other more effective.

Do you handle Google Local Service Ads as well?
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Yes. Google Local Service Ads (LSAs) are a pay-per-lead product separate from traditional Google Ads, and they can be a strong complement to standard PPC for law firms in certain practice areas. We can advise on whether LSAs make sense for your firm, set them up, and manage both alongside your standard campaigns.

How do you track whether PPC is generating actual cases?
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We set up call tracking tied to your campaigns so every inbound call can be traced back to a specific keyword, ad, and campaign. We then work with you to connect intake data so we can see which calls became qualified leads and which leads became signed cases. That full-funnel view is what separates useful reporting from a vanity metrics dashboard.

What practice areas do you run PPC campaigns for?
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We work across most practice areas including personal injury, family law, criminal defense, immigration, estate planning, employment law, and more. Each practice area has its own keyword economics, search intent, and landing page requirements. We build campaigns specific to each one rather than applying a single template across your whole firm.

What if my campaigns aren’t performing after a few months?
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We operate on month-to-month contracts because we don’t want you locked in if something isn’t working. If performance is below where it should be, we diagnose it, tell you exactly what the issue is, and fix it. If the problem is outside of campaign performance (an intake process that isn’t converting calls, for example) we’ll tell you that too, because we’d rather solve the real problem than pretend it doesn’t exist.

How do I get started?
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Reach out and we’ll start with a free PPC audit. If you’re already running campaigns, we’ll review them and show you exactly where budget is being wasted and what we would do differently. If you’re starting from scratch, we’ll scope out the keyword landscape in your market and walk you through what a well-built campaign would look like for your practice areas. No pressure, just clarity.

Your competitors are running ads right now.

Every day without a well-run PPC campaign is a day your competitors are taking cases that could have been yours. Let’s fix that.

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