Fractional Chief Growth Officer
A Fractional Chief Growth Officer for Davis Law Firms — One Owner for the Whole Revenue Engine
Your firm markets hard, runs an intake team, and works its referrals — but each one runs on its own metric and qualified leads slip through the handoffs. We work above the silos and makes every team pull toward one revenue number.
Quick Answer
What does a fractional CGO do for a Davis law firm?
A fractional Chief Growth Officer for a law firm in Davis is an experienced revenue executive who owns the entire revenue engine on a fractional schedule. Where a CMO owns marketing and a COO owns operations, the CGO orchestrates across the silos — connecting marketing, intake, sales, and retention into one accountable system instead of optimizing alone while good leads slip through the gaps.
- Senior revenue leadership for about 20–40% of a full-time hire’s price
- Built for $1M–$100M+ firms where the teams don’t share one number
- Typically 6–18 months, then a part-time advisory cadence
Above the Silos
The revenue relay a fractional CGO owns
Marketing, intake, sales, and retention each run their own leg. A fractional CGO owns the baton — so qualified leads stop getting dropped between teams.
Demand
Pointed at qualified pipeline and cost-per-signed-case, not clicks.
Intake
Every qualified lead answered fast — none left to cool.
Conversion
Disciplined follow-up that turns interest into signed clients.
Retention
Signed clients become repeat matters and referrals.
Where Revenue Leaks
What changes when one owner runs the number
The gap isn’t budget; it’s ownership of the handoffs.
Before a CGO
- Three teams, three dashboards, no shared number
- Good leads slip between teams
- More revenue requires a bigger budget
- Accountability is diffused
With a fractional CGO
- One unified growth scoreboard for the whole firm
- Speed-to-lead under five minutes, every time
- More cases without a bigger budget
- A single accountable owner
One Number
The growth a fractional CGO is accountable for
The number
One unified revenue scoreboard — owned by one executive, reported weekly, and moved on purpose.
The Four Legs
Where a fractional CGO owns the work for a Davis firm
Demand & marketing oversight
Marketing and agencies held to qualified pipeline and cost-per-signed-case — not vanity metrics.
Intake
The marketing-to-intake handoff owned, so no qualified lead goes cold.
Conversion & business development
Consultative follow-up and BD channels that turn interest into signed clients.
Retention, referrals & LTV
Signed clients turned into repeat matters and a referral engine, so growth compounds.
Field Notes
What it looks like in practice
Representative of what one accountable owner can change.
Personal Injury · $28M revenue · scaling
Strong demand, stalled conversion, and no single owner of the path.
We built one growth scoreboard, pulled speed-to-lead under five minutes, and ran a consultative follow-up cadence across intake and BD.
~35% lift in lead-to-signed on the same budget.
Employment Law · $5M revenue · expanding
Plenty of inbound, inconsistent follow-up, three separate dashboards.
We built one pipeline view and pointed every team at one signed-case goal.
~25% revenue growth with no added budget.
What Clients Say
What Davis firm leaders tell us
“Our teams used to run on separate tracks; now they all answer to one scoreboard, and one person owns it.”
“The growth came from fixing the handoffs, not a bigger budget; we finally convert the leads we were losing.”
Representative testimonials based on typical engagements; attributions are role-based. Individual results vary.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Q.What is a fractional Chief Growth Officer for a law firm?+
A fractional CGO is a seasoned revenue executive who, part-time, owns the full path from lead to signed client to referral, holding every team to one number.
Q.How is a fractional CGO different from a CMO or COO?+
A CMO owns marketing and a COO owns operations; a Chief Growth Officer works above the silos and owns the full path from lead to signed client to repeat and referral revenue, so every function pulls toward one number.
Q.How much does a fractional CGO cost in Davis?+
Most engagements run on a fixed monthly fee well below a full-time growth executive’s $250,000–$450,000+ compensation, set during the diagnostic by size and scope.
Q.What does a fractional CGO actually own?+
Everything that moves revenue: demand, intake and speed-to-lead, conversion and BD, and retention and referrals — consolidated onto a single scoreboard.
Q.What size law firm benefits from a fractional CGO?+
Firms in the $1 million to $100 million+ range get the most value, especially when marketing, intake, and sales each work hard but report separately and qualified leads slip through the handoffs.
Q.Do you work with law firms in Davis, CA?+
Yes. We work with firms in Davis, CA and nationwide, mostly remote with on-site time when it helps.
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