Personal injury marketing agency

The personal injury marketing agency that signs cases, not clicks.

Outlier runs marketing for personal injury firms from the first click to the signed retainer: paid search and Local Service Ads by case type, pages that rank, video that makes the firm known, and an intake path that answers in minutes.

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$256
per click for “truck accident lawyer”, the most expensive search in law
550,000
monthly searches for “car accident lawyer”
$4,510
per signed case for a tight firm at the average injury click

What a signed case really costs

Same click, a third of the cost per case

Both firms buy the same clicks at the national average of $112.76 for "personal injury lawyer". The difference is what happens after the click.

Clicks that become leadsTypical firm: 5 in 100Tight firm: 10 in 100
Leads that signTypical firm: 15 in 100Tight firm: 25 in 100
Cost per signed caseTypical firm: $15,035Tight firm: $4,510
What makes the differenceTypical firm: A homepage, a form, and a callback tomorrowTight firm: Case-type pages, reviews by every button, and an answer in minutes

What injured people search, and what it costs

The most expensive clicks in law, on one scale

Pick a view. Bars show monthly US searches; the meter is how hard each is to rank for. Open doors are searches a firm can realistically win organically instead of buying every click.

Seven of the ten most expensive legal searches are injury searches. The cheaper-to-rank ones are where SEO pays for itself.

  • Truck accident lawyer165,000$256.0041
  • Motorcycle accident lawyer110,000$232.5229
  • Slip and fall lawyer90,500$142.3628
  • Wrongful death attorney110,000$142.2827
  • Dog bite lawyer49,500$139.8825
  • Car accident lawyer550,000$132.4244
  • Personal injury lawyer673,000$112.7683

Semrush US database, September 2026. “Open door” means SEO difficulty of 15 or lower out of 100.

Full data and methodology: 2026 Law Firm Marketing Benchmarks.

Trucking, motorcycle, catastrophic injury

Where the click is expensive, the intake decides the profit

At these prices, the website and the speed of the answer decide what a case costs far more than the ad account does.

$256
"truck accident lawyer", 165,000 searches a month
$232.52
"motorcycle accident lawyer", difficulty 29
$142.28
"wrongful death attorney", difficulty 27
  • Dedicated landing pages for every high-value case type
  • Round-the-clock intake and a text-back when a call is missed
  • Local Service Ads alongside search, measured on signed cases

How an injured person hires a lawyer

Five moments between the accident and a signed retainer

Every one of them happens on a phone, often while the person is still hurting. Each is a place a firm wins the case or loses it to the next ad on the page.

  1. 550,000 searches a month

    Searches the case type

    for "car accident lawyer". People search the accident, not the firm.

  2. $189.51 per click

    Goes local

    for "car accident lawyer near me", where the map pack answers first.

  3. 3 kinds of proof

    Checks who is credible

    Reviews, results presented with restraint, and the attorney on video.

  4. 24/7 intake

    Calls or fills the form

    A person, a text back, or a booked call within minutes. A slow answer is the costliest mistake in legal marketing.

  5. 2 numbers decide cost

    Signs

    The share of clicks that become leads, and the share of leads that sign.

Every case type is its own search

One page and one campaign per case type.

A single "practice areas" page cannot rank for truck, motorcycle, and wrongful death at once. A firm with a strong page for each owns every one of those searches.

Vehicle

  • Car accidents
  • Truck accidents
  • Motorcycle accidents
  • Rideshare accidents

Premises

  • Slip and fall
  • Dog bites
  • Negligent security

Catastrophic

  • Wrongful death
  • Brain injury
  • Spinal cord injury

Local

  • "Near me" pages
  • City and office pages
  • Local Service Ads

Proof from personal injury firms

Three injury firms, three different problems

Mirador Law needed cheaper cases, Simon Law Group needed a national brand, and Altair Law needed to be known at all.

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  • 2xconversions in one month for Mirador Law, 8 to 16
  • $765cost per conversion for Mirador Law, down from $1,401
  • 23,400Instagram followers for Simon Law Group, up from 2,145
  • 16,250%Instagram growth for Altair Law in three years

What a case-type page needs

The anatomy of a page that signs cases

Most firm sites have a paragraph and a phone number per practice area. The pages that rank and sign have six parts, in this order.

  1. A headline that names the case type and city

    Written for the search: "Truck accident lawyer in Houston", not "Justice for You".

  2. A free case review above the fold

    Click-to-call, a two-minute form, and a promise of a fast answer, 24/7.

  3. What to do after the accident

    Plain answers to the questions people type into Google in the first week.

  4. Results and reviews, with restraint

    Verdicts and settlements presented honestly, beside real client reviews.

  5. Questions answered with FAQ schema

    So Google and AI assistants quote your answer to "how long does a claim take?"

  6. The attorney on video

    Thirty seconds of the person who will handle the case does more than any headline.

The first 90 days

What happens after the first call

  1. Days 1 to 30

    Stop the leaks

    • Audit intake: speed to answer, missed calls, form drop-off
    • Google Business Profile, reviews, and schema
    • Search and Local Service Ads for the highest-value case types
  2. Days 31 to 60

    Build the case-type library

    • A page per case type and office city
    • Attorney video and results presented with restraint
    • Call tracking tied to signed cases
  3. Days 61 to 90

    Compound

    • Twice-monthly articles on post-accident questions
    • Brand video and social in rotation
    • Monthly report on cost per signed case by case type

Questions injury firms ask us

Personal injury marketing, answered

It runs the channels that produce signed injury cases: Google Ads and Local Service Ads by case type, practice-area pages that rank, the Google Business Profile and reviews that win the map pack, video and social that make the firm recognizable, and the landing pages and booking path that turn clicks into consultations. Outlier runs all of it for personal injury firms and reports on signed cases, not clicks.

Firms we work with typically invest 8% to 12% of revenue while growing, and 12% to 20% when competing on brand in a large market. The number matters less than cost per signed case: at the national average injury click of $112.76, a firm converting 5% of clicks and signing 15% of leads pays about $15,000 per case, while one converting 10% and signing 25% pays about $4,500.

Usually both, weighted by market. Paid search and Local Service Ads produce cases in weeks. SEO takes months but is the cheaper long-term channel for case types where the click is expensive and ranking is realistic: motorcycle accidents, wrongful death, slip and fall, and dog bites all cost over $139 per click with organic difficulty of 29 or lower.

For Mirador Law, a three-office Bay Area injury firm, conversions doubled in one month (8 to 16) and cost per conversion fell from $1,401 to $765. For Simon Law Group in Los Angeles, Instagram grew from 2,145 to 23,400 followers and one post passed 2.7 million views. For Altair Law, a trial firm, Instagram grew 16,250% in three years.

Yes, with a different playbook. Truck accident clicks are the most expensive in law at $256, so landing-page conversion and intake speed decide profitability. Medical malpractice is the reverse: "medical malpractice lawyer" draws 550,000 searches a month at under $10 a click because most searchers are researching, not hiring, so the work is authority content, careful screening, and referral relationships.

Paid search and Local Service Ads typically produce qualified leads in the first few weeks. Organic rankings for case-type pages build over three to six months and then compound. We report weekly on leads and monthly on signed cases and cost per case.

A monthly retainer, scaled to scope and channel mix, in annual partnerships. Ad spend is paid directly to Google and other platforms. You always know what you are paying for and what it is producing.

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