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SEO for lawyers, built around your practice areas.

Specialist law firm SEO — practice-area × location pages, Lawyer schema, white-hat link building from legal publications, and intake forms that turn searchers into signed clients. State bar advertising rules baked into every deliverable.

  • Personal injury
  • Family law
  • Criminal defense
  • Immigration
Example screen. 301,000 people a month search “personal injury lawyer near me” in the US, and advertisers bid up to $340 a click (Google Keyword Planner, October 2026).
A driver sitting in a car at night after a minor accident, hazard lights on, holding a phone
9:15 PMMinutes after the crash, still in the car. The first firm that looks local and answers tonight usually gets the case.

Why good firms lose cases to directories and bigger names.

Four common gaps that keep a capable firm off page one. Each one can be fixed.

  1. 01

    Page-one ghost

    You rank for your firm name and nothing else. Commercial-intent practice-area keywords go to bigger firms, Avvo, and FindLaw.

  2. 02

    Generic agency content

    Your last agency wrote you content that reads like it was generated for a plumber. State bar advertising rules? Not on their radar.

  3. 03

    Directories outranking you

    Avvo, FindLaw, and Super Lawyers occupy the top spots for your own city + practice combinations. You're a paid listing on someone else's site.

  4. 04

    No case attribution

    Reports show 'impressions' but you can't connect any of it to actual case inquiries. Marketing happy. Managing partner not.

We check all four in the free audit

The deliverable

What a practice-area page needs to bring in case inquiries

Directories outrank firms on broad searches. A focused page for each practice area and city is how a firm wins its own market back.

6 components, every page

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Practice area and city in the H1

"Personal Injury Lawyer in Austin, TX", not "Welcome to our firm".

2

Free case review and call above the fold

A short intake form and tap-to-call, both tracked, visible before anyone has to scroll.

3

Map of the courts and cities you cover

Shows at a glance that you take cases where the searcher lives.

4

Hours and LegalService schema

Real office hours and intake availability, marked up to match your Google Business Profile.

5

Practice areas linked from every page

Each practice area gets its own page, and every page links to the others, so Google understands what the firm handles.

6

Client reviews with the required disclaimers

Quotes from real clients, checked against your state bar’s advertising rules before they go live.

The fix

A practice-area × location SEO engine, built specifically for law firms.

Every retainer is built around the verticals it serves. Below is the work — and we'll tell you on the audit call which of these actually move the needle for your situation.

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Workstreams
90d
First ranking move
Talk to a strategist
  • Practice-area landing pages targeting commercial-intent keywords ("personal injury lawyer NYC")
  • Location pages for every city you accept clients from
  • Lawyer schema + LocalBusiness schema markup
  • Google Business Profile + map-pack ranking strategy
  • White-hat link building from legal publications and bar journals
  • State bar advertising rule compliance reviewed on every piece
  • Conversion-optimized intake forms with case-type routing
  • Reporting tied to actual case inquiries, not vanity impressions

Keyword universe

The searches behind case inquiries.

Monthly US searches from Google Keyword Planner (October 2026). Advertisers bid from a few dollars to over $300 a click on these terms, which is why ranking for them organically is worth the work.

Primary targets 6 keywords · highest volume
transactional
personal injury lawyer near me
301,000 /mo searches
transactional
car accident lawyer near me
165,000 /mo searches
commercial
medical malpractice lawyer
165,000 /mo searches
commercial
workers compensation lawyer
135,000 /mo searches
transactional
family lawyer near me
110,000 /mo searches
transactional
criminal defense lawyer near me
90,500 /mo searches
Long-tail cluster 6 keywords · lower difficulty
dui lawyer near me 60,500 ·
truck accident lawyer 49,500 ·
estate planning attorney near me 49,500 ·
divorce lawyer near me 40,500 ·
immigration lawyer near me 27,100 ·
free legal consultation 1,600 ·
Intent Transactional · ready to buy Commercial · comparing Informational · learning

How we deliver

A phased rollout — not a 100-page strategy doc.

You see live work shipped every month, with quarterly executive reviews to recalibrate priorities.

1

Audit & strategy

Month 1

  • Technical SEO audit + Lawyer schema review
  • Practice area × location matrix
  • Competitor intake-form audit
  • Bar-rule compliance baseline
2

Build & launch

Months 2–3

  • Practice area landing pages
  • Location pages for each city
  • GBP optimization + photo SEO
  • Bar-rule-compliant content rollout
  • Intake form rebuild
3

Grow & report

Month 4+

  • Monthly digital PR + link outreach
  • Live case-inquiry dashboard
  • Quarterly ROI review with managing partner
  • Ongoing content + technical maintenance

Why us, for this vertical

What we bring that the generic agency down the street doesn't.

Specialist agencies beat generalist agencies on every vertical they go deep on. Here's our deep end for seo for lawyers.

Bar advertising rules first

Every page is checked against your state bar's advertising rules, and nothing is published until an attorney at your firm signs it off.

Lawyer-specific schema mastery

Attorney, LegalService, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList — implemented for rich results in legal queries, not generic boilerplate.

Case inquiries, not impressions

CallRail + form attribution tied to your CRM. We report what mattered: how many signed cases came from organic.

Content your attorneys approve

Written for your practice areas and your state, then reviewed by an attorney at your firm before it goes live. No content mills.

Transparent pricing

Pick your tier. No "talk to sales" maze.

All retainers are month-to-month after a 90-day initial commitment. Cancel any time. The work compounds — that's how we earn the renewal.

Solo Firm

$3,500 /mo

Single practice area · 1 location

Get started
  • Technical SEO baseline
  • 4 long-form pages / mo
  • GBP management
  • Monthly call review
  • CallRail + form attribution
Most popular

Multi-Practice

$6,500 /mo

3–5 practice areas · 1–3 cities

Get started
  • Everything in Solo
  • 8 long-form pages / mo
  • Digital PR + link outreach
  • Bar-rule compliance reviewer
  • Quarterly ROI deck for partners
  • Case-inquiry dashboard

Multi-Office

$12,500+ /mo

5+ practice areas · multi-state

Get started
  • Everything in Multi-Practice
  • Dedicated content writer
  • Programmatic location pages
  • White-glove account team
  • Custom dashboards by office
  • On-site annual strategy session

Need something custom? We build hybrid SEO + dev + paid retainers too. Let's talk →

FAQ

Got questions?

The same questions every prospect asks. Don't see yours? Tell us — answers within one business day.

Ask us anything

How is SEO for lawyers different from generic SEO?

Law firms have unique constraints: state bar advertising rules, ethics opinions, legal-specific schema (Attorney, LegalService), and case-intake conversion patterns. Generic SEO agencies miss all of this.

How long until I see new case inquiries?

Most firms see ranking movement in 90 days, with material case-inquiry growth in 4–6 months. Local Google searches usually move faster than competitive practice-area terms.

How much does law firm SEO cost?

Our law firm SEO retainers start at $3,500/mo for solos and small firms, scaling to $12,500+/mo for multi-office practices with 5+ practice areas. We publish pricing in every proposal — no "talk to sales" maze.

Can you write the legal content?

Yes. Drafts are written for your practice areas and state, and an attorney at your firm approves every page before it is published.

How do you measure success?

Case inquiries from organic search. Not impressions, not rankings — actual people calling or submitting your intake form because of work we did.

Do you build links from legal publications?

Yes. Outreach targets bar association journals, legal industry publications and reputable legal directories. Digital PR + original research = white-hat backlinks we'd be proud to earn.

Free SEO audit

Win your practice areas in your city.

Get a free 30-minute audit. We'll walk through your current rankings, the keywords you're missing, and what we'd do in the first 90 days. No deck, no sales pitch.

Or email [email protected]

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