Someone gets hit on the interstate, spends Saturday at urgent care, and starts searching Sunday morning: what a claim is worth, whether they need a lawyer at all, how long they have to file. Whoever answers those questions well is the firm they call. That is usually decided before a single phone rings.
You have tried the fixes. An agency at five figures a month producing pages you would not put your name on. A cheaper writer who did not know a disclaimer was required and put a past result on a page with no context. Every draft comes back needing your read, and your read costs more than the writing did.
So you fall back on paid ads, where a click on “car accident lawyer” costs what a decent lunch costs and half the clicks are people comparing quotes on a fender bender. The spend is predictable, the intake is not, and the moment you pause the campaign the phone goes with it.
Meanwhile the firm two floors up has a hundred and eighty answered reviews, a listing posted to this week, and a library of pages that quietly does the work their ad budget used to do.