Which Practice Area Should Your Firm Add First?
The easiest practice area to add is the one where leads are plentiful, addresses come straight from the court record, and the people have no attorney yet. Four things decide that: volume, addresses, deadlines, and representation. Here is how each practice area compares, using our one sample week.
What should you compare?
- Volume: how many cases there are.
- Addresses: whether the court record lists them, or we have to locate each person.
- Deadlines: how long before the lead goes stale.
- Representation: whether the person has an attorney.
How do the areas compare?
- Consumer debt defense: the highest volume (debt collection alone passed 230 cases on one Friday), addresses in the record, defendants unrepresented, a 21-day answer window.
- Eviction: roughly 150 to 170 District cases a week, addresses in the record, a three-business-day tenant deadline.
- Civil litigation: large small-claims volume, addresses in the cases we opened, a 14 to 21-day window.
- Family law: high volume, but no addresses in the record, so some people cannot be located; weeks of timeline.
- Estate and probate: around 100 to 125 cases a week, addresses vary, weeks of timeline.
- Personal injury: low volume, plaintiffs already have an attorney.
How would you choose?
If you want volume and quick mail, start with debt or eviction on the side you represent. If your practice is family or estate, expect fewer, slower leads. These are comparisons from our own sample, not forecasts.
What should you do next?
Pick one county and one category for a month. See how we counted, every Utah case type we cover, and pricing.
Want to see exactly what lands in your inbox? Download a sample spreadsheet — same format you'd actually receive, 250 fictional records so nothing here is a real defendant.