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What Should You Pay for a Legal Lead?

A few quick questions. We'll show you what each lead is actually worth to your firm — and the most you can realistically pay to get one once payroll, overhead, and profit are accounted for.

Takes under a minute · no email required

Based on the LM101 article Three Numbers Your Ads Manager Doesn't Have.

How the math works

1
Revenue per signed case — your average case fee (flat) or settlement × contingency % (contingency).
2
Your real conversion rate — signed clients ÷ total inquiries from last month. This is the number most firms have never calculated, and it's almost never as high as they assume.
3
Revenue per lead — revenue per case × your conversion rate. That's what one new lead is worth on average.
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Your max cost per lead = revenue per lead × the share of revenue you can put toward advertising (we default to 18%). Paying the full value of a lead would leave nothing for payroll, overhead, or profit — that's why "break-even" is a fantasy. The real ceiling is the slice you can actually spend to win the work.