⟶ Portfolio / Case study 03 / Legal marketing

Six pillars, one summer. Every channel.

Client
Monsees & Mayer
Role
Digital marketing & comms intern
Timeline
Summer 2025
Industry
Legal — KC law firm
First
Internship
KC ✦ 2025
⟶ / 01 — Receipts

A few numbers.

28 %
Lift in organic traffic from SEO-optimized blog content
43 %
Increase in social engagement across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn
5 %
Increase in inbound case inquiries from referral email campaign
10 +
Legal blog posts written, optimized, and shipped
⟶ / 02 — Six work pillars

What I owned.

/ 01

Strategic marketing & campaign planning

Led planning and execution of monthly multi-platform campaigns. Conducted audience research, adapted messaging and visuals per platform, and built mobile-responsive PPC landing pages tailored to each campaign — boosting engagement and improving message clarity.

/ 02

Digital tools & platform stack

Daily use of the firm’s full marketing stack. Streamlined scheduling in Buffer + Monday, built custom HTML emails in Constant Contact, and applied front-end HTML/CSS for styling adjustments inside Divi and WPBakery.

/ 03

SEO & analytics

Performed keyword research using Ahrefs and Google Trends, optimized internal linking structures, and tracked performance — improving organic rankings, internal traffic flow, and overall site health while aligning to EEAT and local LLM optimization goals.

/ 04

Content & editorial

Wrote and shipped 10+ legal blog posts — keyword-optimized, on-brand, and structured to drive both ranking and reader retention. Translated dense legal subject matter into approachable, search-friendly content.

⟶ / 06 — By the numbers

The dashboards.

Email open rates, social impressions, and audience growth shipped during the internship
Email performance
Past 30 days ✦ Constant Contact
Open rate
54%
↑ 54%
Click rate
9%
↑ 9%
Total contacts
2,695
Contact growth
1,600
↑ 59%
in
LinkedIn highlights
30-day window
Impressions
2,745
↑ 143.3%
Reactions
73
↑ 50%
Comments
1
Reposts
4
↑ 3%
📊
Content calendar
Multi-channel ✦ July 2025
Posts shipped
40+
Active channels
4
Avg / week
10
On-time %
100%
📈
Web analytics
Site sessions trend
Sessions
0.8K
↑ 24%
Avg duration
1m 33s
Bounce rate
48%
↓ 12%
Top channel
Organic
⟶ / 03 — The takeaway

Marketing for a law firm isn’t marketing for a brand — it’s marketing for trust. Every channel had to earn it.

  • Legal voice is a craft. Translate, don’t flatten — the work was making complex law approachable without losing accuracy.
  • Internal linking compounds. 28% organic lift didn’t come from one big post — it came from threading 10+ posts together with deliberate link architecture.
  • Email beats social for inbound. 5% inquiry lift from the referral campaign vs. 43% engagement (no inquiries) from social — different funnels, different jobs.
  • Owning the stack matters. Buffer, Monday, Constant Contact, Ahrefs, Divi — fluency across every tool was what made the cross-channel work move at internship pace.
⟶ YouTube Short ✦ Brand spotlight

Vertical brand short shipped to YouTube Shorts ✦ scripted, shot, and edited end-to-end.

⟶ Instagram ✦ Employee spotlight
View on Instagram →

Employee spotlight reel ✦ humanizing the firm by putting the people behind the cases on the feed. View on Instagram →

⟶ LinkedIn ✦ Trauma-informed training
View on LinkedIn →

LinkedIn post on the firm’s trauma-informed training program ✦ professional-audience storytelling. View on LinkedIn →

⟶ Facebook ✦ Employee spotlight
Watch on Facebook →

Facebook employee spotlight video ✦ same story, platform-native format. Watch on Facebook →

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