Law Firms

The case walked in at 9:47 PM. The intake form lost it.

Legal inquiries do not arrive during business hours. They arrive after the accident, after the fight, after the diagnosis. Someone opens your intake form at their kitchen table on a Sunday night, types four fields, and gets interrupted. To your CRM, that person never existed.

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ReCapture Dashboard
Live
Abandoned
0
Revenue at Risk
$0
Recovered
0
Revenue Saved
$0
Recent Abandoned LeadsThis month
ContactServiceValueStatus
MA
M. Alvarez
m.alvarez@gmail.com
Divorce consultation
$22,000
Recovered
DW
D. Whitfield
d.whitfield@outlook.com
Custody modification
$15,000
Contacted
RO
R. Okafor
r.okafor@yahoo.com
Property division
$28,000
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01 — The problem

Your intake form was designed by lawyers, for lawyers.

The form captures what the intake coordinator needs to open a file. Matter type. Date of incident. Opposing party. Prior counsel. Whether there are children. Whether assets are contested. Whether a police report was filed.

That is a checklist a firm wants. It is not what a person sitting at their kitchen table at 9:47 PM wants to fill out about the worst week of their life. The gap between what the form asks and what the prospect is willing to give — on a phone, at night, while upset — is the entire mechanism of legal form abandonment.

Nothing about that person appears in your CRM. No missed call. No callback list. No line item in the monthly report. Your paid search worked exactly as designed and delivered them to the door. The form is where they were lost, and it is the one part of the funnel nobody is measuring.

02 — The math

One recovered case covers the year fifty times over.

60-70%
Of form starts never submit (Baymard, 2024)
$20K
Blended value per retained matter

A contested divorce runs $22,000. Custody and modification matters run closer to $15,000. Personal injury runs from $50,000 to seven figures. ReCapture costs $397 per month.

A single recovered matter — one, in an entire year — returns roughly fifty times the annual cost of the platform. There is no other line item in a firm's marketing budget where the math is this lopsided, because there is no other line item where the asset being recovered is worth five figures on its own.

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03 — The recovery layer

Reach them while they are still on the couch.

ReCapture is a single line of JavaScript on your site. The moment a visitor types into your intake form, the field is captured server-side. If they leave without submitting, the inquiry appears in your dashboard and pushes into Lawmatics or Clio as a new lead — with an estimated matter value based on the practice area they were inquiring about.

Recovery messages are discreet by default. They never reference the practice area or anything the visitor typed about their situation. Here is what that actually looks like.

Recovery scene · Sunday, 9:47 PM
Recovered
9:47 PM
A prospective client opens the firm's intake form on her phone. Types her name. Types her email. Starts the third field and stops.
9:48 PM
She closes the tab. ReCapture captures the partial inquiry and pushes it into Lawmatics as a new lead. Quiet hours are active — nothing fires tonight.
8:02 AM
Recovery email — discreet template
“Hi — we saw you reached out to our office over the weekend but the form did not come through. If it would be helpful, you can reply here or call us directly and we will find a time that works. No obligation either way.”
8:26 AM
She replies. Intake calls at 8:40. Paid consultation booked for Thursday. The lead status updates in Lawmatics automatically.
Thursday
Consultation held. Firm retained. Estimated matter value: $22,000.

No form migration. No change to your intake process. Drop the script tag, connect your CRM, and the recovery layer activates on every form on the site.

04 — The intent layer

Your ad platforms think every case is worth the same.

Meta and Google only find out somebody needed a lawyer when that person presses submit. Every intake form that gets started and abandoned is, to them, indistinguishable from a bounce. So your campaigns are optimizing against a fraction of the people who actually reached out — and treating a wrongful death inquiry and a traffic citation as the identical event.

ReCapture sends the abandoned inquiries back to Meta’s Conversions API and Google Ads as server-side conversion events. Identifiers are hashed before they leave. Events are deduplicated against your existing pixel. And each one carries a value weighted by how much intent the person actually showed, so the platforms stop treating every inquiry as interchangeable.

Somebody who starts your intake form three times is deliberating

People do not fill out a family law intake form on a whim, and they rarely do it once. They start it at eleven at night, close the tab, think about it for four days, and start it again. Because none of those attempts ended in a submission, there is no record of the pattern anywhere in your firm — not in Clio, not in Lawmatics, not in analytics.

ReCapture surfaces the repeat visits, weights them into the lead score, and shows your intake team exactly who has been circling. In legal, that pattern is not noise. It is the signature of a real case.

Optimize toward signed cases, not intake volume

Every firm running paid media has the same problem: the platforms optimize toward whatever you tell them a conversion is, and a conversion is usually a form fill. So the algorithm gets very good at producing intake volume, and your team spends its week disqualifying people.

When a recovered inquiry eventually signs, ReCapture pushes the actual matter value back to Meta and Google as a conversion. The platforms then learn which inquiries turn into fee revenue rather than which ones turn into phone calls. That is a distinction no pixel can make on its own, because the signing happens offline, weeks after the click.

What your campaigns do with better data is your marketing team’s call. Getting it there is ours.

05 — Built for legal specifics

After hours, on mobile, and discreet by default.

After-hours reality

Most legal inquiries arrive when nobody is at the desk.

Family law inquiries cluster on Sunday nights and Monday mornings. Personal injury arrives whenever the accident did. Recovery runs on a schedule the firm sets, so the follow-up lands the moment the office opens rather than three days later.

CRM integration

Lawmatics and Clio, natively.

Recovered inquiries push straight into the intake pipeline the firm already runs, carrying every captured field. No second dashboard to watch, no manual export, no change to how the intake team works.

Discretion

Sensitive matters, handled sensitively.

Recovery messages never reference the practice area or anything the visitor typed about their situation. Firms handling family law and criminal defense typically run email-only recovery with voice disabled — a per-firm setting, not a workaround.

Compliance

TCPA, DTPA, and CAN-SPAM aligned.

Truthful sender identification, reference to a real visitor-initiated inquiry, clear opt-out, enforced quiet hours, DNC cross-reference, and a full consent audit trail on every message. See our trust page for the complete posture.

06 — Pricing

$397 per month. 7-day free trial.

Pro at $397/mo includes the recovery dashboard, the tracker, automated follow-up email, live visitor tracking with intent scoring, CRM push to Lawmatics or Clio, and instant SMS or Slack alerts to the intake team.

Enterprise from $1,997/mo for multi-office firms and high-volume practices. Unlimited sites, dedicated account manager, and per-office lead segmentation.

Card required at signup, not charged until day 8. Cancel anytime during the trial.

See the cases you are already losing.

Drop the tracker and watch the first abandoned intake come through the same day. Or run a free audit on your intake form first and see the numbers before you decide.

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Common questions

Frequently asked questions

Is ReCapture compliant with the Texas DTPA?

Yes. Every recovery message clearly identifies the firm as the sender, references the specific inquiry the visitor voluntarily started on the firm's own website, and includes clear opt-out language. There is no misrepresentation, no false urgency, and no bait-and-switch. The visitor initiated the conversation — the follow-up completes it. We provide template consent language for the intake form to remove any ambiguity.

What about TCPA for text and voice follow-up?

Prior express consent is established when a visitor voluntarily enters a phone number into the firm's intake form alongside clear consent language on the form. Quiet hours are enforced by default. The National Do Not Call Registry and the firm's internal DNC list are cross-referenced before any message is sent. AI voice callbacks disclose that they are automated and honor an in-call opt-out. Every communication is logged with a full consent audit trail.

Does ReCapture integrate with Lawmatics and Clio?

Yes. Recovered inquiries push into Lawmatics or Clio Grow as new leads with all captured fields — name, phone, email, matter type, and completed form data — via webhook or Zapier. The lead lands in the same intake pipeline the firm already uses, so no one has to change how they work or watch a second dashboard.

Is it appropriate to follow up on a family law inquiry?

Discretion is the default. Recovery messages never reference the practice area, the matter type, or anything the visitor typed about their situation. They reference only that the visitor reached out to the firm and offer a way to continue. For sensitive verticals, firms typically use email-only recovery and disable voice callback entirely — that is a per-firm setting.

What recovery rate should a law firm expect?

Between 8% and 12% of abandoned intake form starters, depending on follow-up speed and channel mix. On a firm seeing roughly 340 form starts per month, that is 18 to 26 recovered inquiries monthly flowing into the existing consult pipeline.

Will our intake form change in any way?

No. ReCapture is a passive layer on top of the form you already have. It does not alter the UI, the validation, the routing, or the submission flow. Visitors who submit normally continue exactly as they do today. ReCapture only acts when someone abandons.