scale.law
Field Notes · Archive

Working notes on law-firm intake.

Numbers-first essays on the workflows running inside live deployments. New issues most weekdays.

5 issues
Issue 05· missed-call· 5 min

How missed-call text-back recovers 30% of dropped leads at personal-injury firms

Personal-injury firms drop 25-40% of inbound calls during business hours. A single SMS in 30 seconds turns most of those into booked consults. Here is the math and the build.

Issue 04· no-shows· 5 min

Why no-show rates drop from 40% to 10% with a 3-touch reminder cadence

Most law firms accept 40% no-shows on paid consultations as inevitable. It is not. A simple 3-touch reminder cadence cuts that to under 10%.

Issue 03· agency· 5 min

How marketing agencies should price intake-automation implementations for law firms

Agencies leave money on the table by under-pricing intake-automation builds for legal clients. Here is the pricing framework that captures real value.

Issue 02· reviews· 6 min

Setting up post-case Google review automation for criminal-defense firms

Criminal-defense firms get review-collection wrong because they ask too late, too generically, or to the wrong client. The 4-touch automation that doubles review velocity.

Issue 01· intake· 6 min

AI lead-qualification : routing hot intake forms to the attorney phone

Most law firm intake forms dump every submission into a generic queue. AI qualification routes hot leads to the attorney in 30 seconds, junk to nurture. Here is the build.