Google Ads for personal injury lawyers in New York:
New York clicks cost about 1.8× the national average, which makes a poorly built personal injury firm account expensive fast. At those prices a lead that does not sign is a real loss, and most PI accounts have no idea which leads signed. We build PI accounts by case type, feed signed retainers from your intake CRM back to Google, and bid toward the searches that become cases worth taking.. Below: what personal injury lawyers in New York should expect to pay per lead and per signed case, how we split campaigns across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the rest of the metro, what three budgets produce, and the seasonal moves that matter here. more signed cases, at New York prices, without the waste.
LEADSTACK™ Five layers. One account that keeps growing.
Most Google Ads accounts are one campaign wearing five hats. LEADSTACK is how we build a lead-gen account instead: the campaign types stacked in the order that pays, each layer fed by the booked jobs the layer below it produced. Below, the stack as we build it for personal injury lawyers in New York.
Remarketing · videoSupport
Remarketing · displaySupport
Performance MaxScale
Local Services AdsCore
SearchCore
One campaign, five jobs
Booked jobs → Google
0:00 · The leak
You are paying for clicks. You need booked jobs.
Most accounts we audit have one campaign doing five jobs, broad match with no negative list, and Google optimizing toward form fills it never sees close. That is where the budget goes.
0:38 · Layer 1 · Search
Capture the demand that already exists.
Exact and phrase match, split by service value and urgency, with call ads while someone answers the phone. The base of the stack and usually 55 to 70 percent of the budget.
1:12 · Layer 2 · Local Services Ads
Pay per lead, above the ads.
Where the category qualifies, the Google Screened or Guaranteed badge sits above every search ad. We run it beside search, dispute junk leads weekly and compare cost per booked job each month.
1:40 · Layer 3 · Performance Max
Scale, but only on real data.
Performance Max finds more of the people who already book with you, if it is fed booked-job conversions and fenced with brand exclusions and search themes. Switched on in month two or three, never on day one.
2:10 · Layer 4 · Remarketing on display
Bring back the 95 percent who left.
Most visitors do not call on the first visit. A small display budget, 30-day windows and one message per service keeps the quote request alive for a few dollars a day.
2:35 · Layer 5 · Remarketing on YouTube
Be the name they remember.
For long decisions like a roof, an implant or an injury case, six-second bumpers to past visitors cost cents per view and lift branded search and close rate.
3:05 · The loop
Booked jobs flow back to Google. Bids follow revenue.
Offline conversion imports tell Google which clicks became customers, so every layer bids toward the cases that pay. By month three the target is hit, or our fee drops to zero until it is.
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We see the same three problems in almost every personal injury firm account we take over in New York. Each one is fixable in the first month.
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Paying $200 a click for cases you would never take
"Slip and fall at work" and "minor fender bender no injury" click just like a serious injury search. Without case-type structure and negatives, the budget buys the wrong callers. We build campaigns by case type and value.
02
Intake loses the case before the ad gets credit
PI leads call several firms. The one that answers live, screens fast and gets a retainer signed the same day wins. We track speed to lead and show you where intake, not the ads, is the leak.
03
No signed-case feedback to Google
Google counts forms and calls. Your intake system knows what signed. We import signed retainers with an estimated case value, so bidding learns from cases, not contacts.
The audit checklist: mistakes we fix in most personal injury firm accounts
All case types in one campaign sharing a budget
Broad match with no negatives, paying for job seekers and DIY claim searches
Forms and calls counted equally, with no signed-case import
Intake by voicemail after 6pm while ads keep running
Homepage as the landing page for every case type
No Spanish campaign in a market that needs one
No branded campaign to separate referrals from new demand
What the budget produces in New York
Three budgets, before and after the rebuild.
Built from our personal injury firm benchmarks (cost per lead $350, 10% of leads booked, $12,000 per signed case) adjusted for New York click costs at 1.8× the national average. Estimates for planning, not promises.
Monthly budget
Leads today
Signed cases today
Revenue today
Signed cases with DGENCY
Revenue with DGENCY
$3,000
5
0
$5,714
1
$10,204
$5,000
8
1
$9,524
1
$17,007
$10,000
16
2
$19,048
3
$34,014
Minimum we recommend for a personal injury firm in New York: $18,000 a month. Below that the account cannot buy enough clicks to learn at local prices.
New York market dynamics
What is different about New York for personal injury lawyers.
Population 19.5M in the metro, cost of living 187 against a US average of 100, clicks at about 1.8× the national average. Here is how that changes the account.
Geography is the whole game
A radius around the office is useless here. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, Long Island, Westchester and North Jersey each have different costs, different job values and different competition. We build campaigns by borough and neighborhood cluster and bid where your close rate is highest.
People here decide fast and compare hard
New Yorkers call from the search results, expect an answer on the first ring and will call the next result if they do not get one. Speed to lead matters more than in any other market. Landing pages need the phone number, reviews and availability in the first screen.
Clicks are expensive, so noise is expensive
At New York prices, a search term that could never become a job costs real money every day. Weekly search term reviews and shared negative lists are not optional here; they are the difference between a profitable account and an expensive one.
Mobile and commute hours
A large share of service searches happen on phones during commute windows and evenings. We schedule bids around when your intake team can answer, and use call-only formats where forms underperform.
Clients in the New York metro include an HVAC company in Queens, a personal injury firm in Manhattan and a dental group with offices in Brooklyn and Long Island.
Area targeting
How we split New York for a personal injury firm.
A radius around the office is not a strategy in New York. Each tier gets its own campaigns and budget so bids follow where signed cases actually come from. Tiers move as your data comes in.
Tier 1 · bid up
Manhattan
Brooklyn (North & Central)
Westchester
Highest job values and close rates for most clients; expect the highest CPCs
Tier 2 · core
Queens
The Bronx
Long Island (Nassau)
Strong volume, moderate CPCs, strong Spanish-language demand in parts
Tier 3 · test
Staten Island
Long Island (Suffolk)
Northern New Jersey
Added when capacity allows; separate budgets so they cannot drain Tier 1
Local keyword examples for personal injury lawyers in New York
car accident lawyer manhattan
car accident lawyer brooklyn
car accident lawyer queens
car accident lawyer the
truck accident attorney manhattan
truck accident attorney brooklyn
truck accident attorney queens
truck accident attorney the
slip and fall lawyer manhattan
slip and fall lawyer brooklyn
slip and fall lawyer queens
slip and fall lawyer the
Area modifiers become separate ad groups only where search volume supports them; otherwise location targeting does the work.
Campaign blueprint
How we structure a personal injury firm account in New York.
Campaigns are split by intent and case value so budget follows the signed cases worth the most. In New York each campaign is then split again by area (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens) so bids follow where signed cases come from.
Serious injury cases need serious lawyers. Free consultation with a trial attorney, no fee unless we win. We come to you.
Workplace campaign · Sponsored
Injured at Work? Know Your Rights | Construction Accident Lawyers in New York | Free Case Review · Se Habla Español
yourpractice.com › workplace
Workers' comp and third-party claims handled by attorneys, not paralegals. Free review, no fee unless we win.
Offers that move the close rate
Free case evaluation with an attorney, not a screener
No fee unless we win, stated with the state-required detail
Same-day retainer signing by e-signature
We come to you: home or hospital consultations
24/7 live intake in English and Spanish
Campaign types
Which Google Ads campaign types we run for personal injury lawyers in New York, and which we skip.
Every campaign type Google offers has a job. Most accounts we audit run the wrong ones, or run the right ones in the wrong order. This is the mix for personal injury lawyers in New York, in the order it is switched on.
CoreRuns from day one and carries most of the budget.
ScaleAdded once booked-job tracking is proven, usually month two or three.
SupportA small budget with one specific job.
Not hereWe would not run it for this account, and we say why.
SearchLSAPMaxVideo RMKDisplay RMK
Starting split of the monthly budget in New York, rebalanced every month by cost per booked job. Shares are the midpoint of each range.
Core55%of budget
Search
Responsive search ads · exact and phrase match
Why it is core
Injury clicks are the most expensive in Google Ads, so every keyword is exact or phrase match, split by case type (motor vehicle, serious injury, premises, workplace) and by device, with a shared negative list reviewed weekly.
New York: At 1.8× national click costs, exact match and borough-level ad groups matter more here than anywhere else. A Manhattan implant click is not a Staten Island cleaning click.
How we set it up
One campaign per intent tier, never one campaign for everything
Exact and phrase match with a shared negative list from day one
Ad schedule and bid adjustments around open hours
Location targeting by service area, not a city-wide radius
Core20%of budget
Local Services Ads
Google Screened / Google Guaranteed · pay per lead
Why it is core
Personal injury firms qualify for Google Screened. LSA leads run $100 to $400, still below search in most metros, and we dispute the junk and reconcile every lead to a signed case.
New York: New York LSA slots are crowded. Ranking depends on review velocity and answering the phone inside 30 seconds, so we set the response-time targets with your front desk before launch.
How we set it up
License, insurance and background checks submitted and kept current
Junk leads disputed every week
Reviews synced from Google Business Profile
Cost per booked job compared with search every month
CoreInside search
Call ads
Call-only ads and call assets on mobile
Why it is core
People search from the emergency room or the tow yard on their phone. Call ads with 24-hour intake answer that moment; a firm that cannot take the call should not run them.
How we set it up
Runs only while the phone is staffed
Calls under 60 seconds left out of the conversion count
Recordings scored weekly so the ad group learns from booked calls
Scale10%of budget
Performance Max
Asset groups across Search, YouTube, Display, Gmail and Maps
Why it is a scale layer
Only with signed-case imports and lead-form qualifying questions. Without them Performance Max fills intake with people who were not injured. Added in month three at the earliest.
How we set it up
Never switched on before offline conversions are flowing
Brand exclusions and search themes on every asset group
One asset group per service, with real photos rather than stock
Lead form questions that filter price shoppers
Support5%of budget
Remarketing (video)
YouTube bumpers and skippable in-stream to past visitors
Why it is a support layer
Choosing a lawyer takes days and several firms get compared. A 15-second attorney-to-camera clip to past visitors is cheap, and it lifts signed cases from the searches you already paid for.
New York: Commute-time YouTube on phones reaches New Yorkers mid-decision. Bumpers geofenced to your boroughs cost well under a dollar per hundred views.
How we set it up
Six-second bumper cut from a phone-shot founder video
Audiences shared from the search and display campaigns
Measured on branded search lift and assisted bookings, not views
Support5%of budget
Remarketing (display)
Display ads to past visitors and past callers
Why it is a support layer
Remarketing with the free consultation and the no-fee-unless-we-win message keeps the firm in front of visitors comparing options. Frequency capped, converted clients excluded.
New York: When a first click costs $12 to $40, bringing the same visitor back for a few cents is the cheapest lead in the account. We give remarketing a slightly bigger share in New York.
How we set it up
Audiences by page visited at 7, 30 and 90 days
Frequency capped at three a day
One message per service, with the offer in the headline
Customers who already booked are excluded
Not here0%of budget
Demand Gen
Visual prospecting across YouTube, Discover and Gmail
Why we skip it
Prospecting people who have not been injured produces no cases, and some state bar rules restrict solicitation-style creative. Search, LSAs and remarketing cover the buyers who exist.
What would change our mind
Lookalikes built from booked customers, not site visitors. Job-site or before-and-after creative. Capped at ten percent of budget until cost per booked job matches search.
The account can only be optimized toward what it can see. For personal injury lawyers that means calls with duration, form and booking events, and signed cases imported back to Google with a value.
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What we connect
Call tracking with recording (where consent rules allow), duration and spam filtering
Signed retainers from Clio, Lawmatics, Filevine or Litify imported as offline conversions with estimated value
Form and chat events with duplicate removal
GA4 + Google Tag Manager with no case details captured
Speed-to-lead reporting by hour and intake agent
02
Local Services Ads for personal injury lawyers in New York
Available · $100–$400 per lead depending on metro, higher in New York
Personal injury is one of the largest Local Services Ads categories with the Google Screened badge. We handle verification, dispute non-case leads weekly and compare cost per signed case with search every month.
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Compliance notes
State bar advertising rules: disclaimers, "no fee unless we win" terms, no guaranteed outcomes
Attorney name and office address required in ads in many states
No solicitation language that violates state rules on accident victims
Call recording consent notices as required by state
Confidential intake: no case details in URLs or analytics
Seasonality
The New York calendar
Budgets that stay flat all year waste money in quiet weeks and starve the account in busy ones. We plan by week around these moves.
January
Post-holiday traffic accidents and "new year" case inquiries; volume rises.
Summer
Peak driving season: motor vehicle cases rise; motorcycle and boating claims.
January–February
Furnace, boiler and burst-pipe emergencies; plumbing and HVAC costs spike.
Spring
Roofing, pest control and remodeling searches rise; legal intake steady year-round.
Your numbers
What a monthly budget produces for personal injury lawyers in New York
Benchmarks from our accounts, adjusted for local click costs (1.8×). Move the slider. Estimates, not promises.
With DGENCY—leads / month—signed cases / month—revenue / month
Assumes cost per lead $630 → −30% and lead-to-customer rate 10% → +25% after tracking and structure are fixed, at $12,000 per signed case. Open the full projector to use your own numbers.
Proof
The proof is in the booked jobs
Numbers our clients get paid on, from accounts in legal.
Personal injury
Harbor Injury Law
Tampa, FL · $14,000/mo ad budget
3.5×Signed cases per month (4 to 14)
−44%Cost per signed case
Case-type campaigns, 24-hour intake with recorded calls, Local Services Ads beside search, and signed cases imported back into Google.
8 client stories
★★★★★
“Three agencies before DGENCY. Every one of them sent me a report with a bunch of graphs. Hamid sent me a spreadsheet of booked jobs and what each one cost. That was the whole difference.”
Rick MorenoOwner, Canyon Air Conditioning
★★★★★
“They told me in the first call that my landing page was the problem, not the ads. I did not want to hear it. They were right, and signed cases went from four a month to fourteen.”
Danielle HarperManaging Partner, Harbor Injury Law
★★★★★
“We are a small practice. I was worried we would be too small for a real agency. Hamid looks at our account personally and my front desk knows exactly which new patients came from ads.”
Dr. Sana PatelOwner, Bright Smile Dental
★★★★★
“Our old agency reported clicks. DGENCY reports booked jobs, and the number went from 61 to 140 a month on the same budget once the tracking was honest.”
ME
Marcus EllisonOwner, Summit Air & Heat
★★★★★
“Hamid called our office as a customer before we signed and told us we missed a 4pm call. That is the level of detail. Cost per booked job is down 38 percent.”
LO
Lena OrtizGeneral Manager, TrueLine Plumbing
★★★★★
“Three quotes a week became eleven. The difference was the search terms they cut and the financing line they put in the ad. Nothing fancy, just correct.”
GW
Grant WhitakerOwner, Bluegrass Roofing
★★★★★
“We are a two-attorney firm. They gave us a plan for $5,000 a month and did not try to sell us $20,000. Consults are up 70 percent and the fee is flat.”
PN
Meera NairPartner, Keystone Estate Law
★★★★★
“Quarterly plans at $41 each from Local Services Ads and search together. Our previous agency never turned LSAs on. They did it in week two.”
The same process on every account. Management from $999 a month, never a percentage of spend; your ad budget is paid to Google in your own account. Three-month minimum, then month to month, with the fee dropping to zero if we miss the written target.
01
Weeks 1–2
Audit and tracking rebuild
We audit the account line by line and rebuild the measurement so that only real leads count.
02
Week 2
Blueprint
A written plan that maps your budget to the services and areas that make you the most money.
03
Weeks 3–4
Build
New campaign structure, ad copy and landing pages, built in your account, owned by you.
04
Month 2 onward
Run, learn, scale
Weekly hands-on optimization with AI doing the heavy lifting and Hamid making the calls that matter.
One-time
$299
Account audit
A line-by-line review of your existing Google Ads account, tracking and landing pages, with a written list of what to fix and what it is costing you. Credited toward setup if you continue.
Full hands-on management by Hamid and an experienced Google Ads strategist. Fee scales with the complexity of the account (service lines, locations, campaign types), not with your ad spend.
Everything in phases one to three: tracking rebuild, blueprint, campaign build and the first landing pages. Priced by the number of service lines and locations.
What personal injury lawyers ask before hiring us.
More on the FAQ page, or send your numbers with the growth plan request.
How much do Google Ads cost for personal injury lawyers in New York?
Expect $473 to $788 per lead and around $6,300 per signed case in a well-built account. New York runs about 1.8× the national click cost, so tight geography and negatives matter more here than in cheaper metros.
What budget should a personal injury firm in New York start with?
At least $18,000 a month. At $5,000 a month a typical account produces roughly 8 leads and 1 signed cases; after tracking and structure are fixed the same budget produces about 1.
Which parts of New York should a personal injury firm target?
Start with the areas closest to the practice where your close rate is highest, usually Manhattan and Brooklyn (North & Central), with separate campaigns per area so budget follows results.
What does a PI lead cost?
$250 to $500 per lead in most metros, $400 to $800 in the biggest ones. A signed case typically costs $1,200 to $3,500 in ad spend against fees of $12,000 or more.
Do Local Services Ads work for personal injury lawyers?
Yes. PI is one of the largest LSA categories: Google Screened badge, pay per lead ($100–$400 in big metros), placement above the search ads. We run LSAs with search and dispute leads that are not real cases.
Can you connect our intake CRM?
Yes. Signed retainers from Clio, Lawmatics, Filevine, Litify or similar are imported as offline conversions with an estimated case value, without any confidential case details.
How much does Google Ads cost in New York?
Roughly 1.5 to 2 times the national average per click. Legal and financial niches are the most expensive; home services and dental sit in the middle. A well-built account offsets that with tighter targeting and higher job values.
What budget do I need to start in New York?
At least $150 a day for most niches, and $5,000 or more a month for legal. Below that the account cannot buy enough clicks to learn.
Ask Hamid directly
Send your numbers and get straight answers in the written plan.
Send your details and Hamid reviews your account, your New York market and your competitors before the call, then walks you through the five changes that would move your cost per signed case the most. Twenty minutes, a written plan, no obligation.
Step 01
Tell us about your business
Two minutes on the form.
Step 02
We do our homework
Website, landing pages, market and, with read access, your account.
Step 03
You get the plan in writing
A one-page plan you keep either way, and a call to walk through it if you want one.
