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Case study 05 · Legal

Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff

A New York injury firm was paying for radio that wasn't bringing in cases. Within 30 days of the rebuild, cases went from 6 a month to 21.

Client
Personal injury law firm, New York
Role
James Robinson, Marketing Director · 2013–2016
The work
Radio, Spanish-language marketing, public relations
6 → 21
cases a month, within 30 days
$150M
case from Spanish-language outreach
Front page
New York Daily News

The situation

Personal injury in New York is a crowded fight for attention. Every firm is on the radio, on the subway, on the side of a bus.

The Lamonsoff firm was running radio too. But cases came in at six a month, and the firm had no system for winning new clients or standing apart. It also wasn't speaking to one of the city's largest communities: Spanish-speaking New Yorkers.

What was at stake

When someone gets hurt, they call the firm they remember. Every month of weak intake meant cases signing with someone else.

What James did

  1. 01Rebuilt the radio campaign: the strategy, the message, when it ran, and the creative.
  2. 02Launched Spanish-language marketing to New York's Hispanic community, a market most competing firms had left alone.
  3. 03Built a PR engine that turned real client cases into news stories, so the firm earned its coverage instead of buying it.

What changed

6 → 21Cases a month, within 30 days of the radio rebuild.
$150MA landmark case that came in through the Spanish-language outreach.
On airA client family's case ran on CBS2 New York and the front page of the New York Daily News, with pickup on NBC and ABC.

The proof

New York Daily News front page, April 8, 2016, headlined Dead wrong, about a family whose mother's body was lost and wrongly cremated by a Brooklyn funeral home
New York Daily News front page, April 8, 2016
CBS2 New York 5:30 news segment titled Mortuary Mistake, showing the family at a press conference in front of the firm's logo
CBS2 New York, 5:30 news, from a press conference at the firm

The lesson

Radio wasn't broken. The message, the timing, and who it spoke to were. Before you fire a channel, fix what you're saying on it.

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