Law firm marketing · Los Angeles
Los Angeles law firm marketing, built case type by case type.
Outlier is a law firm marketing agency based in Austin with an office in Santa Monica. We run search, SEO, video and intake for Los Angeles injury and family firms. LA is not one market: “personal injury lawyer los angeles” has an SEO difficulty of 82, while “motorcycle accident lawyer los angeles” sits at 15 with 3,600 searches a month.
- Los Angeles
- Santa Monica
- Long Beach
- Pasadena
- Glendale
- Irvine
- Riverside
- San Bernardino
- 8,100
- monthly searches for “personal injury lawyer los angeles”, at an SEO difficulty of 82
- $135.22
- per click for “motorcycle accident lawyer los angeles”, at a difficulty of only 15
- 15
- SEO difficulty for “personal injury lawyer santa monica”: 720 searches a month and an open door
The Los Angeles market board
Every big injury search in and around LA
Pick a lens. Each tile is one search in one place: how many people type it each month, what a click costs, and how hard it is to reach page one without paying for it.
The head term is a fortress at 82. The case types under it are winnable, from motorcycle at 15 to car accidents at 42, and Santa Monica is an open door.
- Los Angeles“personal injury lawyer los angeles”8,100 searches a month$82.34per click82Fortress
- Los Angeles“car accident lawyer los angeles”6,600 searches a month$74.62per click42Contested
- Los Angeles“truck accident lawyer los angeles”3,600 searches a month$62.13per click38Contested
- Los Angeles“motorcycle accident lawyer los angeles”3,600 searches a month$135.22per click15Open door
- Los Angeles“uber accident lawyer los angeles”1,000 searches a month$159.65per click20Open door
- Los Angeles“divorce lawyer los angeles”720 searches a month$16.23per click55Contested
- Santa Monica“personal injury lawyer santa monica”720 searches a month$77.61per click15Open door
- Santa Monica“car accident lawyer santa monica”210 searches a monthn/aper click4Open door
Every city around Los Angeles is its own search. Orange County is the one fortress at 58; San Bernardino has the priciest click at $172.77.
- Irvine“personal injury lawyer irvine”2,400 searches a month$83.86per click24Open door
- Orange County“personal injury lawyer orange county”1,900 searches a month$110.17per click58Fortress
- Riverside“personal injury lawyer riverside”1,900 searches a month$111.42per click30Open door
- San Bernardino“personal injury lawyer san bernardino”1,600 searches a month$172.77per click29Open door
- Long Beach“personal injury lawyer long beach”1,300 searches a month$110.09per click24Open door
- Pasadena“personal injury lawyer pasadena”880 searches a month$67.81per click28Open door
- Glendale“personal injury lawyer glendale”720 searches a month$58.51per click38Contested
Semrush US keyword database, pulled October 29, 2026. Difficulty is Semrush’s 0 to 100 score for reaching page one organically:Open door 30 or lower,Contested 31 to 55,Fortress over 55.
Where the money is
The ten most expensive clicks in LA-area law
The Inland Empire and rideshare cases lead the ladder at $111 to $173 a click, and five of the top six sit at a difficulty of 30 or lower. Ranking for them is the difference between renting those cases and owning them.
Every search names a city in the Los Angeles area. Semrush US keyword database, pulled October 29, 2026.
- personal injury lawyer san bernardinoSan Bernardino$172.771,600 a monthdifficulty 29
- uber accident lawyer los angelesLos Angeles$159.651,000 a monthdifficulty 20
- motorcycle accident lawyer los angelesLos Angeles$135.223,600 a monthdifficulty 15
- personal injury lawyer riversideRiverside$111.421,900 a monthdifficulty 30
- personal injury lawyer orange countyOrange County$110.171,900 a monthdifficulty 58
- personal injury lawyer long beachLong Beach$110.091,300 a monthdifficulty 24
- personal injury lawyer irvineIrvine$83.862,400 a monthdifficulty 24
- personal injury lawyer los angelesLos Angeles$82.348,100 a monthdifficulty 82
- personal injury lawyer santa monicaSanta Monica$77.61720 a monthdifficulty 15
- car accident lawyer los angelesLos Angeles$74.626,600 a monthdifficulty 42
How we’d run Los Angeles
One play per part of the map
The same budget buys very different things downtown, on the Westside and in the Inland Empire. This is where we would start, read straight off the board.
Los Angeles
The expensive middle
The head term is a fortress: “personal injury lawyer los angeles” sits at a difficulty of 82. The case types under it are winnable: car accident at 42, truck accident at 38, motorcycle at 15 and rideshare at 20.
- Rank the case-type pages first
- Buy the head term only with a cost-per-signed-case cap
- Attorney video for the map pack
Santa Monica and the Westside
Home ground
“Personal injury lawyer santa monica” sits at a difficulty of 15 and “car accident lawyer santa monica” at 4. This is where Outlier’s office is.
- City pages for injury and car accident searches
- Reviews and the map pack
Inland Empire
The priciest clicks
“Personal injury lawyer san bernardino” costs $172.77 a click at a difficulty of 29, and Riverside $111.42 at 30. Rank before you buy.
- City pages for San Bernardino and Riverside before raising bids
- Paid search capped on cost per signed case
What we run for Los Angeles firms
Every channel that produces a signed case, under one team
Google Ads and Local Service Ads, by case type and city
Separate campaigns for auto, motorcycle, rideshare, trucking and family law, run by a senior media buyer and optimized to signed cases.
PPC for law firms →Case-type and city pages that rank
Pages for the searches where the click is expensive and ranking is realistic, with FAQ schema so AI search can cite you.
Law firm SEO →The path to intake
Click-to-call and booking above the fold, reviews beside every button, and a form a phone can finish in thirty seconds.
Law firm web design →Attorney video and social
Films of the lawyer who will handle the case, cut for the site, the map pack, YouTube and short-form social.
Video production →Personal injury, end to end
Cost per signed case, the case-type library and the intake playbook for injury firms.
Personal injury marketing →Earned media and brand
On-camera segments and coverage that make the firm the obvious choice before the accident ever happens.
Public relations →Proof from injury firms
Results from three injury firms
Three injury firms, three different problems.
Read the case studies →- 2xconversions in one month for an injury firm, 8 to 16
- $765cost per conversion for the same firm, down from $1,401
- 23,400Instagram followers for a national injury brand, up from 2,145
- 16,250%Instagram growth for a newer injury firm in three years
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