Growth Leadership · Lafayette, CA
The Fractional Chief Growth Officer Lafayette Law Firms Trust to Own Growth End-to-End
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. A fractional Chief Growth Officer takes the whole engine and makes every team pull toward one revenue number.
The Short Version
What is a fractional CGO, and why do Lafayette firms hire one?
A fractional Chief Growth Officer for a law firm is a senior revenue executive who owns the entire revenue engine on a fractional schedule. Unlike a CMO who owns marketing or a COO who owns operations, the CGO orchestrates across the silos — making demand, intake, conversion, and retention move the same scoreboard instead of optimizing alone while good leads slip through the gaps.
- Executive growth leadership at roughly 20–40% of a full-time CGO’s cost
- Built for $1M–$100M+ firms where the teams don’t share one number
- Engagements usually run 6–18 months, then ease into advisory support
The Revenue Relay
Growth is a relay — and leads get dropped at the handoffs
Each team runs hard, but leads cool in the handoffs. A CGO owns the whole relay and the one number it feeds.
Marketing
Pointed at qualified pipeline and cost-per-signed-case, not clicks.
Speed-to-lead
Every qualified lead answered fast — none left to cool.
Sales & BD
Disciplined follow-up that turns interest into signed clients.
Retention
Happy clients recycle into new pipeline.
Before & After
What changes when one owner runs the number
Same marketing spend, two very different outcomes — depending on whether anyone owns the whole path.
Before a CGO
- Three teams, three dashboards, no shared number
- Qualified leads cool off in the handoffs
- Growth means buying more ad spend
- No one owns the revenue number
With a fractional CGO
- A single source of truth across every team
- No qualified lead left to go cold
- More cases without a bigger budget
- A single accountable owner
The Payoff
The growth a fractional CGO is accountable for
North-star
One growth number the whole firm runs on, with a single owner on the hook for it.
The Four Legs
The four legs of the revenue engine
Demand & marketing oversight
Spend pointed at pipeline, not clicks.
Intake & speed-to-lead
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
Every client feeds the next.
Representative Outcomes
Representative growth engagements
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.
Lead-to-signed conversion rose ~35% — with no increase in ad spend.
Employment Law · $5M revenue · expanding
Demand was strong, follow-up was hit-or-miss, and every team reported its own numbers.
We stood up a unified scoreboard, set a BD cadence, and aligned marketing and intake on the same conversion targets.
Roughly 25% more revenue on the same marketing spend.
What Clients Say
What Lafayette firm leaders tell us
“Marketing, intake, and our closers finally pull the same direction. Someone owns the whole number now — not just their slice.”
“We grew revenue without spending another dollar on marketing — we just stopped leaking the leads we’d already paid for.”
Representative testimonials based on typical engagements; attributions are role-based. Individual results vary.
FAQ
Questions Lafayette firms ask
Q.What is a fractional Chief Growth Officer for a law firm?+
A fractional Chief Growth Officer is a senior revenue executive who owns your firm’s whole growth engine part-time — keeping marketing, intake, business development, and retention aligned to one number so growth stops leaking between teams.
Q.How is a fractional CGO different from a CMO or COO?+
Where a CMO handles marketing and a COO handles operations, a CGO orchestrates across them — owning the whole revenue engine rather than a single function.
Q.How much does a fractional CGO cost in Lafayette?+
Expect a fixed monthly fee far under a full-time growth executive’s $250,000–$450,000+ package, set in the diagnostic by firm 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?+
Best fit is roughly $1M to $100M+ in revenue, particularly when every team works hard but no one owns the number they share.
Q.Do you work with law firms in Lafayette, CA?+
Yes. We work with firms in Lafayette, CA and nationwide, mostly remote with on-site time when it helps.
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