{"id":47354,"date":"2024-12-12T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgmleonard.com\/?page_id=47354"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:06:13","slug":"statistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jgmleonard.com\/lawyer\/statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"47354\" class=\"elementor elementor-47354\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8dcd1fe e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8dcd1fe\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea547ef elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ea547ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Lawyer Statistics<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-685fd27 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"685fd27\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5ba096 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a5ba096\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<li style=\"color:red;\">70% of potential clients will &#8220;check a lawyer out&#8221; on the Internet before contacting. Even with a referral.<\/li>\n \t<li>97% of law firms don\u2019t have any kind of personal content present on their website<\/li>\n \t<li>96% of people seeking legal advice use a search engine<\/li>\n \t<li>91% of law firms handle the same client multiple times<\/li>\n \t<li>90% of people who are on the internet will view a Google advertisement<\/li>\n \t<li>89% of law firms believe content marketing is \u201cvery important\u201d to their overall marketing strategy<\/li>\n \t<li>87% of people who contact an attorney go on to hire an attorney, and 72% of them only contact one attorney<\/li>\n \t<li>86% of law firms do not collect email addresses<\/li>\n \t<li>85% of people use maps online to search for legal service locations<\/li>\n \t<li>85% of attorneys used social media in their marketing strategy in 2018<\/li>\n \t<li>84% of law firms were able to obtain leads by organic social media traffic<\/li>\n \t<li>83% of law firms will hire an outside marketing firm to do their marketing 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