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Google Ads for Corporate Law Firms

Google Ads for corporate law firms bids on specific work, such as a share purchase or a shareholder dispute, because a general advert for business law reaches everyone and convinces no one.

Students, job seekers and people with private legal problems are filtered out, and each rare enquiry is followed to a signed engagement.

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Corporate lawyer discussing contracts and company rules with an executive in a boardroom

Online challenges for corporate law firms

Corporate law searches attract law students, people looking for a job and individuals with private matters, and each of their clicks costs as much as one from a director.

Enquiries are few, so a campaign judged on clicks rather than mandates misleads everyone.

A wide range of practice areas needs a clear page for each

Business clients search by contracts, company rules, deals or the dispute they face.

  • One broad page fits none of the high-value legal searches well.
  • A main page for each line of work shows depth and attracts the right consultations.

It is hard to tell where enquiries came from when referrals, ads and search mix

Without clear credit for each channel, firms chase numbers that look good instead of real consultations.

  • Wrong credit distorts budget decisions and what the people handling enquiries expect.
  • Measuring everything in one place ties growth to what cases actually earn.

Students and private persons click a corporate firm's adverts

Searches about contracts or companies come from students, job seekers and individuals as often as from businesses.

  • A broad advert for business law reaches all of them and speaks to none.
  • With a handful of enquiries a month, an account that does not follow each one to the signed mandate cannot tell which campaign pays.

Google Ads approach for corporate law firms

For corporate law firms, we build Google Ads around a clearly limited offer, stronger proof and screening that filters out poor-fit visitors before they reach your calendar.

One campaign for each piece of work you sell

A broad advert for a business law firm is shown to everyone and speaks to no one.

  • Setting up a company, a shareholders' agreement, a contract review and recovering an unpaid invoice each get a campaign of their own, with adverts in the words of that task.
  • Broad words such as business lawyer stay on a very low bid or switched off, since they bring students and job seekers as readily as directors.

Clicks from students, job seekers and private persons cut

Legal terms are searched by people who will never instruct a firm that works for companies.

  • We exclude searches for definitions, sample contracts, free templates, thesis topics, traineeships and salaries, and extend that list from the search terms report every week.
  • Private matters such as divorce, traffic fines or a dispute with a landlord are excluded by word, and the adverts run in office hours, when companies decide and someone at the firm answers.

Few enquiries, each one followed to the mandate

A corporate firm may receive a handful of enquiries from adverts, and one of them can outweigh the whole budget.

  • Every advert leads to the page for its task, with the scope, the stages, the way the fee is set and the partner who leads such work.
  • Forms and calls are recorded per campaign, and the firm tells us which became a fee proposal and which a mandate, so the budget follows signed work and not clicks.

Google Ads process for corporate law firms

01

Searches worth paying for

We separate the searches that bring customers from those that only cost money.

02

Campaign build

We split the campaigns by service or offer and connect call, form and booking tracking before launch. For corporate firms, every service on offer has a separate campaign, law students, applicants and private individuals are filtered out, and every one of the few enquiries is followed to the mandate.

03

Landing pages

Each advert opens a page about what it promised, with the way to call or book in view.

04

Tuning

In the first weeks we move the budget towards the searches and adverts that bring enquiries, and switch off the rest.

Price: Google Ads for corporate law firms costs €350 to set up and from €250 a month to manage, for ad budgets up to about €800 a month, plus VAT, three-month minimum. You pay Google directly; larger budgets are quoted.

Corporate legal work with an agreement review, a list of risks and a planned consultation

How we measure results for corporate law firms

Every enquiry from a company is costed, and we track how many became a signed mandate, since the volume is always small.

Questions about Google Ads for corporate law firms

Plain answers about Google Ads, written for corporate law firms.

First enquiries can come within days of the start, usually for clearly defined work such as registering a company or reviewing a contract.

  • Tuning the account takes the first weeks, while we see which tasks bring companies and which bring students.
  • A mandate comes later, because a board compares several proposals before it signs an engagement letter.

For part of a corporate firm's work, yes.

  • Adverts suit tasks with a clear scope and buyers without a network: founders, smaller companies and investors from abroad.
  • They do not win a large transaction or a seat on a panel of a corporation, and we do not spend money trying.
  • We say at the start which of your services belong in which group.

Yes.

  • A separate English campaign is shown in the countries your foreign clients come from and uses the words an outsider types, such as open a company or local counsel.
  • It leads to an English page written for that reader.
  • Mixing it with the local-language campaign hides which of the two actually pays.

Which tasks you want to sell as defined pieces of work and how the fee for each is set.

  • Who receives an enquiry, how the conflict check is done and how fast a partner can call back.
  • Whether your bar limits advertising, and how.
  • And which kinds of clients you would turn away, so we can exclude them before they cost a click.

General questions about Google Ads, the same for every trade, are in our FAQ.

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