How many signed cases can your PPC budget actually produce?

Plug in your ad spend. See your signed cases, cost per case, and projected revenue.

STEP 01

Ad spend

Your monthly PPC budget across Google Ads, Meta, or LSA.


STEP 02

Leads

Calls and form fills driven by your campaigns.

STEP 03

Signed cases

Leads that convert into retained clients.

STEP 04

Revenue

Fees earned per case × signed cases per month.

Built on 500+ Injury Account Audits

The numbers driving this calculator come from years of working with and auditing law firm advertising accounts across Google Ads, Meta, and Local Service Ads — with deep specialization on the injury side. If your real numbers are tracking 30%+ below this projection, the gap is almost always fixable: intake response time, ad-to-landing-page match, untracked phone calls, or CPL benchmarks borrowed from non-legal industries.

Your campaign inputs



$10,000

$409

12%

$10,000

Your projected results

Signed cases / month
3
Cost per signed case
$3,409
Return on ad spend
293%

Projected monthly revenue
$29,326
For every $1 in ad spend, this campaign generates $2.93 in fees earned.

Projections, not guarantees. Real numbers move with geography, competition, intake speed, and landing-page quality.

Legal PPC benchmarks by practice area.

Cost-per-lead figures from raw engine conversions — every call or form fill that triggers the platform’s conversion pixel, before any qualification.

Practice area Google Ads CPL Meta Ads CPL Local Service Ads CPL Avg. fees / case
Personal Injury $409 $854 $309 $10,000
Criminal Defense $76 $228 $104 $5,000

Personal Injury sub-area CPC (Google Ads)

Sub-practice Avg. CPC Range
MVA / Car Accidents $240 $200–$600+
Slip & Fall $127
Trucking $111
Medical Malpractice $60

Lead-to-signed-case conversion

Practice area Conversion rate Notes
Personal Injury 9–15% Aggregate across channels
Criminal Defense 35–40% Lead-to-retained

Cost-per-signed-case targets

Practice area Target Typical range
Personal Injury ~$2,800 $1,500–$5,000
Criminal Defense ~$1,250 most firms ~$1,670

The math, no black box.

Every output is anchored to signed cases and fees earned. Nothing else matters.

Funnel formula

Leads = Spend ÷ CPL
Signed Cases = Leads × Conversion Rate
Cost / Case = Spend ÷ Signed Cases
Revenue = Signed Cases × Fees per Case
ROAS = Revenue ÷ Spend

How to read your ROAS

< 100% · Losing money
100–200% · Break-even
200–300% · Workable
300%+ · Sustainable scale

From budget to signed cases in under a minute.

01

Pick practice area & channel

Defaults populate from real benchmarks. Adjust if your market runs hotter or colder.

02

Drag the sliders

Spend, CPL, conversion rate, average fees. Numbers recalculate live.

03

Compare to reality

If your actual cost-per-signed-case is higher, the gap is usually intake, targeting, or landing pages.

Questions we get about these numbers.

They come from auditing and working with 500+ injury accounts plus active campaigns across criminal defense, immigration, and bankruptcy. Your real numbers shift with geography, account maturity, intake quality, and traffic source. Use the defaults as a starting point.

Raw engine conversions — any call or form fill that triggers the platform’s pixel. Includes lead forms, phone-call events, and contact actions, before any intake qualification.

PI is a stack of sub-practices that price very differently. MVA averages ~$240 CPC but can clear $600 in dense metros. Slip & fall runs ~$127, trucking ~$111, medical malpractice ~$60. Wrongful death keywords routinely top $500.

The fee earned by the firm — not the gross settlement. Roughly $10K for PI, $5K for Criminal Defense, $5K for Bankruptcy, $4.5K for Immigration.

LSAs price per lead, not per click. For PI, LSA CPL ($309) is cheaper than Google Ads CPL ($409). For Criminal Defense, Google Ads ($76) is cheaper than LSA ($104). The right channel depends on practice area and market.

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