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TAKING NEW BRIEFS · Q2 / 26
What We've Done/Industries/LEGAL TECH

Legal Tech Marketing That Drives Law Firm Adoption.

iExcel partners with legal tech companies to build demand gen systems that drive law firm trials, conversions, and revenue across paid, SEO, and lifecycle.

LEGAL TECH · TRACK RECORD● LIVE
Qualified leads
6K
Cost per lead
$45
Ad spend managed
$489K
Engagement length
5 yrs
VERTICAL · LEGAL-TECH-MARKETING
EVIDENCE BASE · NEXTPOINT / LIQUIDTEXT / DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL
Brands We've Operated On
NextpointLiquidTextDavis Polk & Wardwell
THE TERRAIN

What makes Legal Tech hard.

Legal tech buyers move slowly and weigh evidence carefully. We understand the law firm buying committee, practice-area segmentation, and trial-to-paid conversion strategies that drive ARR — not just trial signups.

  • / 01Buyer-committee friction — managing partner, IT, security, and practicing attorneys all weigh in before procurement greenlight.
  • / 02Practice-area segmentation — what works for litigation differs from corporate, IP, or labor; one playbook doesn't scale.
  • / 03Trial-to-paid drop — trial activations look healthy but conversion-to-paid stalls without onboarding tied to attorney workflows.
  • / 04Compliance + privilege constraints — testimonials, case studies, and creative subject to privilege rules other industries don't face.
OUR APPROACH

How we win in Legal Tech.

We start with funnel audits and attribution setup, then run experiments across paid, SEO, and lifecycle channels to improve trial-to-paid conversion rates and drive predictable ARR.

01

Legal tech growth strategy + execution — senior operators who've shipped for ediscovery, contract analysis, and practice management software.

02

Attorney + law firm audience targeting — paid + content campaigns segmented by practice area, firm size, and decision-maker role.

03

Measurable trials + subscription growth — multi-touch attribution from first ad through trial activation to paid conversion.

SERVICES · TUNED FOR LEGAL TECH

The subset of the stack that moves Legal Tech pipeline.

We run the full stack, but we don't apply it uniformly. For Legal Tech, these are the disciplines that compound fastest — ordered by impact.

/ 01

Technical SEO

Schema, sitemaps, indexable trial flows. Foundation for high-intent attorney queries (e.g. 'best ediscovery software').

/ 02

Content + GEO

Topic clusters by practice area and use case. Engineered for citation in Google AND answer engines attorneys consult.

/ 03

Paid Acquisition

Google, LinkedIn, Bing. Targeting by practice area, firm size, and attorney role. ABM for top-tier firms.

/ 04

Landing Page + CRO

Trial signup, demo request, and pricing page experiments tuned to attorney evaluator paths.

/ 05

Lifecycle + Email

Trial nurture sequences that convert activated users to paid subscribers. Workflow-anchored, not generic drip.

/ 06

Analytics + Attribution

GA4, server-side events, CRM stitch. Multi-touch attribution from first ad through trial-to-paid.

RESULTS

What we've moved in Legal Tech.

6K
Qualified leads
Nextpoint · LinkedIn Ads, 25% conversion
$45
Cost per lead
Nextpoint · LinkedIn Ads
$489K
Ad spend managed
Nextpoint · 5-year engagement, multi-channel
5 yrs
Engagement length
Nextpoint · 2019–2023
CASE STUDIES

Specific missions. Specific results.

Nextpoint
6K
LinkedIn leads · 25% conv
$45
CPL · LinkedIn
5 yrs
Engagement length

Built and ran Nextpoint's demand gen + ABM engine for 5 years.

Built and managed Nextpoint's (ediscovery software) Demand Generation and Account-Based Marketing engine for ~5 years (2019–2023). LinkedIn Ads delivered 6K leads at $45 CPL with a 25% conversion rate; Google + Meta added another 1.9K leads on top.

LiquidText
#3
'Annotate' (was #53)
#3
'Highlighter' (was Unranked)
#2
'Highlights' (was #53)

Built ASO strategy that ranked LiquidText top-3 for 'Annotate' and 'Highlighter'.

Built LiquidText's initial App Store Optimization strategy for the iOS Store. PDF-annotation tools used heavily in legal review work — moved 'Annotate' from #53 → #3, 'Highlighter' from Unranked → #3, 'Highlights' from #53 → #2.

Annotate#3Highlighter#3Highlights#2Highlight#7Reader#11PDF#31Text#40
OPERATOR'S WORD

Chris is an outstanding marketing professional that can significantly help any business turn into a rocket ship! I am in business development for a client of Chris', so I have been able to work hand in hand with him on a regular basis.

WB
William Boelter
Sales Director · Nextpoint

I have known Chris since he first came to Davis Polk as a Litigation Technical Analyst. Chris' intellect and motivation made him an asset to the litigation department. He is dedicated, ambitious and a complex thinker. His outside-of-the-box thinking is one of his greatest assets and lends itself to his amazing creativity. Wonderful things lay ahead for Chris.

Carla Hinton
Project Manager, EDiscovery Management Services · Davis Polk & Wardwell
ADJACENT VERTICALS

Other categories we operate in.

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