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What to establish before you buy

1. Trace the source of every lead. Ask exactly where leads originate: the vendor's own search advertising, an organic site they own, a network of affiliates, or purchased traffic they resell. Affiliate networks are where the worst practices live, and a vendor that cannot or will not describe its sources is describing them by refusing.
2. Settle exclusivity and resale in writing. Exclusive leads cost more and are worth more; shared leads mean you are racing two or three firms to the phone. Get the number of buyers per lead in the contract, along with whether unsold or aged leads are later resold, because both change the economics entirely.
3. Confirm the marketing complies where you practise. Lawyer advertising and client solicitation are regulated by your state bar, and buying leads generated by someone else's advertising does not move that responsibility off you. Review the actual ad creative and intake scripts, and take the compliance question to your own counsel rather than to the vendor.
4. Define a billable lead and a credit process. Agree what counts: jurisdiction, case type, injury threshold, time since incident, and whether the person actually consented to contact. Then agree how you dispute one and what the credit window is. Vendors differ enormously here and the difference is most of your real cost per case.

How pricing works and what it hides

Leads are sold per lead, per qualified call, per signed case, or on a monthly package with a volume floor. Per lead is the most common and the least aligned, since the vendor is paid whether or not the person had a case. Per call with a duration threshold is better, because it filters the accidental and the abandoned. Per signed case is the most aligned and the least available, and where it exists it is often structured in ways that raise fee-sharing questions your bar rules may treat seriously. Whatever the model, the number that matters is not the price per lead but the cost per signed case, and you cannot know it until you have run enough volume to measure the conversion rate honestly.

Two costs are routinely omitted from vendor arithmetic. Intake capacity is the first: shared leads reward whoever calls back fastest, so if your office cannot respond within minutes, the shared product will underperform its advertised conversion rate no matter who supplies it. Rejection overhead is the second: every out-of-jurisdiction or out-of-scope lead consumes staff time before it is credited, and a vendor with a slow credit process is charging you twice.

The compliance edges that matter most

Three areas deserve your own review rather than a vendor assurance. Consent to contact: leads generated through forms with buried or missing consent language, or through call centres dialling lists, expose the buyer as well as the seller, and telemarketing rules govern how consumers may be contacted and what records of consent must exist. Advertising accuracy: creative that implies a guaranteed outcome or a relationship with a firm that does not exist is a problem for the firm whose name ends up attached. And solicitation: rules on live contact with prospective clients differ meaningfully between states, and a vendor operating nationally will usually price to the most permissive one.

The practical protection is simple and rarely taken: ask to see the actual landing pages, forms and scripts, in the states where you practise, before you sign. A reputable vendor will show you. If the answer is that the creative is proprietary, you are being asked to put your firm's name behind advertising you are not permitted to read.

Questions people actually ask

Are exclusive leads worth the higher price?

Usually, if your intake is anything short of instant. With shared leads the fastest caller wins and you pay full price for the losses. Run both for a defined period, measure cost per signed case rather than cost per lead, and let that number decide instead of the headline price.

What conversion rate should I expect?

It varies so widely by source, case type, exclusivity and intake speed that any vendor quoting a rate up front is quoting a best case. Insist on a paid pilot with enough volume to measure your own rate, and treat the pilot as the price of information rather than as a discount negotiation.

Is buying leads better than building my own marketing?

They answer different questions. Bought leads fill capacity now and stop the moment you stop paying. Owned marketing costs more up front and compounds. Most firms that end up in a good position use purchased volume to smooth gaps while building assets that make the purchase optional.

Who is responsible if the advertising breaks a rule?

In practice your firm carries the reputational and regulatory exposure attached to its own name, whoever wrote the ad. That is why reviewing creative and intake scripts before signing, and having your own counsel confirm the arrangement against your state rules, is not a formality.

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