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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 read

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.

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Issue 04
no-shows
5 min read

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%.

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Issue 03
agency
5 min read

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.

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Issue 02
reviews
6 min read

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.

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Issue 01
intake
6 min read

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.

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