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More signed cases. Fewer tire-kickers.

Over twenty years running Google Ads for personal injury, mass tort, criminal defense, estate planning, family law, and business litigation firms. Senior strategists, no offshore hand-offs, and reporting that ties spend to signed cases — not just clicks.

Practice Areas

We don't run ads for every firm. We run them well for these.

Legal advertising isn't one job — it's six. Each practice area has its own buyer, its own economics, and its own pitfalls. We learn yours.

Personal Injury

High-intent local search, geo-targeting at the jurisdiction level, and lead-quality filtering. Volume matters — and so does which cases you sign.

Mass Tort

National campaign mechanics, qualification at the form level, and call routing for high-volume intake. We've worked the mass tort funnel for years.

Criminal Defense

24/7 lead capture, urgent-intent keywords (DUI, arraignment, bail), and ad copy that reaches people in actual crisis without sounding opportunistic.

Estate Planning & Probate

Longer consideration cycles, education-led ad copy, and content-supported funnels. Trust is the conversion, not urgency.

Family Law

Sensitive ad copy, careful audience targeting, and intake processes that respect the emotional reality of divorce, custody, and domestic cases.

Business & Civil Litigation

B2B targeting strategy, longer sales cycles, multi-touch attribution, and lead scoring to separate qualified prospects from research-stage browsers.

If You've Been Burned

Legal PPC is its own discipline. Most agencies treat it like everything else.

Generic PPC management gets law firms in trouble — wasted spend on non-clients, disapproved ads, and reports full of clicks that never become signed cases.

After twenty-plus years, we know the legal-specific failure modes by name. Here are the four that cost firms the most.

The expensive one

Restricted-category violations.

Google flags "Legal Services" as a restricted category. Generic agencies trigger the gates with sloppy ad copy or wrong landing pages — and your ads run at half-capacity for weeks before anyone notices.

What we do

We pre-clear ad copy against Google's legal restrictions before launch. Landing pages get the same review. If something gets flagged, we have it back online within 48 hours — not 4 weeks.

The quiet one

No negative-keyword discipline.

"Lawyer" without negatives pulls "lawyer jokes," "lawyer salary," and DIY researchers. Without aggressive negative lists, half your spend goes to people who'll never become clients.

What we do

We build practice-area-specific negative keyword libraries on day one and refine them weekly. Your spend goes to people actually looking to hire — not to people researching free legal information.

The deceptive one

Lead volume, not signed cases.

Most reports show "form submissions" or "calls." But signed retainers are what actually pay the bills, and you can't optimize what you don't measure.

What we do

We tie call tracking and form fills to your CRM so we report on signed cases, not just leads. The metric that matters is the one driving optimization.

The risky one

Bar rule blindness.

States like New York, Florida, and Texas have specific advertising rules for attorneys. Agencies that don't review for compliance can expose firms to bar complaints — even when the ads are running well.

What we do

We review ad copy against the bar advertising rules in your jurisdiction. If something needs your bar counsel's review, we flag it before it runs.

What You Actually Get

What "good" looks like for a law firm.

Concrete deliverables. Not "comprehensive digital strategy" — specific things we do every month for every legal client.

01

Practice-area keyword research

Not "lawyer near me." Real intent-mapping based on how clients in your specific practice area actually search.

02

Negative keyword libraries

Built per practice area, refined weekly. Your spend goes to qualified searchers — not to free-legal-info browsers.

03

Call tracking tied to your CRM

Every call attributed to the campaign that generated it. Every form fill mapped to the lead source.

04

Signed-case attribution

Not just leads. We track which campaigns produced retainers — and double down on the ones that work.

05

Compliance review of ad copy

Every ad reviewed against Google's restricted-category rules and your jurisdiction's bar advertising rules.

06

Jurisdiction-level geo-targeting

County, zip code, even radius targeting around courthouses. Not "state of New York" — that's where money goes to die.

Industry Endorsement — Strategic Alliance Marketing Group
Google Review · 5 stars

The team at Internet Ad Pros is tops in their industry! I manage marketing programs for over 20 law firms and have never found another team that can produce the results that I get when working with Murray and Travis. I highly recommend them to anyone who wants to know where to spend their money for PPC ads, and where not to spend their money. Don't hesitate!

Deborah Dodson Strategic Alliance Marketing Group
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What other firms have said about working with us — pulled straight from their Google Reviews.

Common Questions

What attorneys ask before the first call.

Yes. Legal services is a restricted category — Google requires specific ad copy structures and landing page elements to keep ads running at full delivery. We've been working inside those rules for over twenty years, and we pre-clear ad creative against them before launch.
Yes — for the states our clients practice in. We review ad copy against the relevant bar's advertising rules and flag anything that should be reviewed by your bar counsel before it runs. We're a marketing agency, not lawyers — final compliance is your firm's call, but we don't put you in a position where you have to make it on five minutes' notice.
Because we control the ads, not the intake. We can drive qualified leads to your firm, but whether those leads become signed cases depends on your intake team's response time, follow-through, and qualification criteria — things outside our reach. Pricing based on a metric we don't fully control isn't honest pricing. 15% of spend (or a $500/mo minimum) is what we charge every firm, and it tracks fairly to the work we actually do.
Leads usually come in within the first two weeks. Signed cases take longer — typically 30–60 days for personal injury (faster for urgent practice areas like criminal defense, slower for estate planning where consideration cycles run months). What matters more than time-to-first-case is the trajectory: most firms see consistent monthly growth in signed cases by month three, and compounding improvements through year one as we refine targeting and copy.
Yes. Mass tort campaigns are their own discipline — national targeting, high-volume intake, qualification at the form level rather than post-call. We've run them and we know the difference between mass tort PPC and single-case-acquisition PPC. If you're scaling a litigation, talk to us early.
Yes. Whether you're a regional firm with three offices or a national mass tort practice, we structure campaigns to target by jurisdiction — typically at the county or zip level rather than state-wide. State-wide targeting wastes spend; county-level targeting focuses budget where your courts of jurisdiction actually are.
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