I have seen a return on investment in excess of 500%. LegalMatch is a solid investment. It's like fishing with a net.
I’ve had a good experience with LegalMatch. It has proven to be a very sound investment. I have seen a return on investment in excess of 500%. LegalMatch is a solid investment. It's like fishing with a net. It's proven to be a good idea after I first started doing this.
I spent a lot of time talking to people and my own personal attitude has always been, if someone calls me to talk about a case, they're calling me to talk about their problem. My general rule of thumb is we always talk about their problem first.
I changed my automated response to talk about what I bill an hour, that I do require a retainer and basically I find that I get way fewer requests for consultations. I also get a much higher catch rate for those that do call me and know what they're getting. I've been doing my practice for 28 years and the bottom line is that LegalMatch has worked for me. I'm making money with my membership, that's probably the most important concern.
What I’d tell another attorney about getting a LegalMatch membership is that it will get you a fairly broad number of possibilities. It's not magical, but it'll get your name out there. It's definitely something that any attorney who's looking for more cases should consider.
To get the most of the membership, it's important to be fairly prompt in replying to leads. I'm not always perfect about it. There are times when it may be a couple of days before I respond to somebody. But I try to have a 24-hour turnaround where if I get something relevant, I'll send them a reply. The nice thing about LegalMatch is that it makes this fairly easy to do. A lot of times I'll send replies while I'm sitting at home watching a baseball game on my iPad. You can sit there and just click them off. It’s not that hard.
Every time somebody posts an inquiry, I can log on to LegalMatch wherever I am. I can look at my dashboard then figure out who I want to deal with. I probably archive one out of every eight leads that I look at. If somebody ends up not hiring me and picks up a little bit of advice along the way, that's fine. That's par for the course, but I'm not going to knowingly call if somebody doesn't want to move forward. I used to get leads from another lead generating service. I’d say LegalMatch is a solid service. What I like best about it is that it’s fairly portable. I can look at it on my phone or on my iPad at work, and I can respond whenever I want.
I would recommend LegalMatch to attorneys who are looking to build their practice. As long as you're efficient about things, and you've got a system that's certainly manageable, it’ll work. The fees charged by LegalMatch are quite affordable when one considers how much any retained case will generate in fees.