MVA Retainers

Most firms do not have a case problem. They have an intake problem.

  1. Exclusive – One Firm Only
  2. Signed on Your Firm’s Agreement
  3. 14-Day Replacement Protection
Signed MVA Retainers

Signed MVA cases, ready for your firm to work

The phone rings, the inquiries come in, and then the real work starts. Callbacks. Second attempts. Third attempts. Qualification questions asked over and over. By the time your team reaches a good case, that person has often spoken to two other firms, or stopped answering altogether.

MVA retainers cut that whole stage out. You are not buying a name to chase. You are buying a motor vehicle accident case that has already been qualified and signed by our intake team, on your firm’s own retainer agreement. Your attorneys open the file and start working the case.

Cases are delivered nationwide, there are no contracts, and every case carries 14-day replacement protection.

That is the service on this page. If you would rather run intake yourself and work raw or qualified leads instead, start with our MVA leads page. This page is for firms that want the signed case.

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What a signed MVA retainer actually is

A lead is a person who raised their hand. A signed retainer is a client who has committed.

Before a case is delivered to your firm, our intake team has already confirmed the basics that decide whether a case is worth an attorney’s time:

  • The accident happened within the last year
  • The client was not at fault
  • Injuries are confirmed
  • Medical treatment has started, or an appointment is scheduled
  • Insurance coverage is verified
  • The client does not already have an attorney
  • The client has signed your firm’s own retainer agreement

If a case does not clear those points, it does not get delivered as a retainer. That screening is the product. The signature at the end of it, on your own paperwork, is what you are paying for.

What arrives when a case is delivered

You receive a case your team can act on the same day, with the qualification work already done and documented:

  • Full contact details for the client
  • Accident details, including date, fault position, and how the crash happened
  • Injury and treatment status
  • Insurance information for the at-fault party, and the client’s own coverage where it applies
  • Confirmation that the client has no prior attorney
  • Your firm’s signed retainer agreement, completed by the client

There is no speed-to-lead race here. Nobody else is dialing the same person while your team tries to get a first conversation booked. The client has already chosen to move forward.

A sample case file, so you can see what “ready to work” means

Firms ask what a delivered case actually looks like, so here is the structure of one. Names and details are illustrative; the fields are the fields we deliver on.

Sample delivered case

  • Client: Sample client, Dallas, Texas. English-speaking. Cell phone number verified.
  • Accident: Rear-end collision, 6 weeks ago. Client was the driver, stopped in traffic. Police responded and cited the other driver.
  • Fault: Not at fault. No prior attorney. No prior settlement.
  • Injuries and treatment: Neck and lower back injuries reported at intake. Treated at an emergency department, with follow-up treatment started.
  • Insurance: At-fault driver’s carrier and policy details captured. Client’s own coverage noted, including uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage where it applies.
  • Agreement: Your firm’s retainer agreement, signed by the client before delivery.
  • Consent: Marketing consent record held on file for the case.

When a case arrives in that shape, your first call is a welcome call, not a sales call. That difference is the whole product.

Every retainer is exclusive to one firm

This is the point firms usually ask about twice, so here it is plainly.

Every signed case goes to one firm only. It is never shared, never resold, and never offered to a second firm after delivery. That is the same exclusivity standard we apply to our leads, carried through to signed cases.

It matters more at this price level, not less. When you pay for a signed case, you are paying to remove competition from the equation entirely.

Case types you can buy as signed retainers

Campaigns are built around the cases your firm signs, including:

  • Standard auto cases. Rear-end collisions, intersection crashes, and multi-vehicle accidents. This is the core volume for most firms.
  • Commercial and truck cases. Crashes involving commercial vehicles, delivery vehicles, and trucks. These cases often carry higher policy limits, which is why firms ask for them by name.
  • Motorcycle cases. Riders are injured at higher rates and usually need representation quickly.
  • Pedestrian cases. Pedestrians hit by vehicles, where liability and coverage questions decide the value early.

A practical warning that most providers skip: the stricter your filters, the fewer cases exist. Add requirements on treatment timing, injury type, or coverage, and the price goes up while the volume goes down. We would rather show you that tradeoff before you order than sell you volume we cannot deliver in your states.

How it works

1. We agree your criteria first

Tell us the states you practice in, the case types you sign, and the niches you want, whether that is cars, trucks, motorcycles, or pedestrian cases. We deliver nationwide, and campaigns are built around your firm’s criteria, so you receive cases you actually want to work. Send us your retainer agreement at this stage too, because that is the document your clients will sign.

2. We run the campaigns and do the intake

Our team runs the marketing, takes the inquiries, and works through the qualification points above. Your firm does none of this work and carries none of this cost.

3. The client signs, on your agreement

Qualified clients are signed by our intake team on your firm’s own retainer agreement. Not our paperwork, yours. The client is your client from the moment the case lands.

4. You receive a case that is ready to work

The signed case is delivered to your firm, ready for your attorneys to open, review, and move forward. You also get reporting that ties your spend back to cases delivered, so you can see your real cost per signed case rather than guessing at it.

Custom campaigns

Leads or retainers: which one fits your firm?

Neither is better in the abstract. It depends on where your firm is stuck.

Leads fit firms with a strong intake team. If you have trained staff who can call back inside five minutes, work a follow-up sequence properly, and close, then leads give you a lower cost per inquiry and more volume to work with. You can compare the options on our MVA leads page, and firms that prefer to talk to the client first can also use live transfers and car accident leads.

Retainers fit firms that are losing cases at intake. If good cases are dying because follow up is slow, staffing is thin, or your attorneys are spending their week qualifying instead of litigating, then paying more per case and skipping intake altogether is usually the cheaper decision once you count staff time honestly.

Here is the simple way to think about it. A lead has a price. A signed case has a price. The number that matters is what a signed case costs you in total, including the hours your team spends chasing the ones that never sign. For a lot of firms, that honest math is what moves them to retainers.

What do MVA retainers cost?

Most providers will not show you a number until you sit through a sales call. We would rather put ours on the page.

Signed MVA retainers in the wider market run from around $2,000 to more than $10,000 per case. Competitive states such as California, Texas, and Florida sit toward the top of that range.

Our signed MVA retainers start from $1,950 per case, with 14-day replacement protection and no contracts.

That starting price sits below the bottom of the usual market range, for a case that arrives signed on your own agreement. The exact price for your firm depends on your states and your case criteria, so get current pricing for your state before you decide.

For comparison, here is how our pricing sits across the range:

Lead type What you get Typical market range Our pricing
Raw web lead Form fill, unverified $300 to $800 $200 to $400
Qualified exclusive lead Verified against 5-point criteria, exclusive to your firm $400 to $1,000 $250 to $700
Live transfer Qualified caller transferred to your intake in real time $500 to $1,800 $400 to $800
Signed MVA retainer Fully signed case, ready to litigate $2,000 to $10,000+ From $1,950 with replacement guarantee

The math: what a signed case is really worth to your firm

Do this calculation with your own numbers before you compare any provider, including us.

Start with the fee, not the case price. On a $25,000 auto policy, a one-third contingency fee is about $8,300. Many firms see average fees well above that floor. Against an average fee of $8,300, a signed case at $1,950 costs about a quarter of the fee it can produce. Against an average fee of $15,000, it costs about an eighth. That is why firms that know their average fee stop shopping on price per lead.

Now run the lead comparison honestly, using the pricing on this site. Take a qualified exclusive lead at $400, in the middle of our $250 to $700 range. If your intake team signs one in ten, which is a respectable rate, that is $4,000 of lead spend for every signed case, before you count a single hour of intake salaries, callbacks, texts, and the cases that went cold while your team was busy. At a stronger one-in-five sign rate, it is $2,000 of lead spend, plus the labor. A signed retainer at $1,950 removes the sign rate from the equation entirely. The case arrives signed.

Work it out for your firm:

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Example: if your fee is $10,000 and you enter 20, you are willing to spend $2,000 to acquire the case.

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Your allowable cost per signed case: $—

A signed retainer from us: $1,950 per case.

14-day replacement protection, and no contracts

If a delivered case does not meet the agreed qualification criteria, or the client turns out to be unreachable, tell us within 14 days and we will replace it.

You should only pay for real cases that match what was agreed. That is the whole point of buying a signed case instead of a list of names.

And there are no contracts. You are not locked into a term, a monthly minimum dressed up as something else, or an agreement you need a lawyer of your own to get out of. You order cases, we deliver signed cases, and the arrangement continues only while the cases are good enough to keep you ordering.

Covered by replacement, inside 14 days:

  • The case fails one of the agreed qualification criteria, for example fault, accident date, treatment status, or insurance
  • The client already had an attorney
  • The client is unreachable after delivery

One honest boundary, because a page that hides it is not worth trusting: a case that later settles for less than you hoped, or a client who stops treating months down the line, is a case outcome, not a delivery defect. Replacement covers what we delivered, not how the case ends.

Compliance and consent

Buying cases only works if the cases were gathered properly. Our leads and retainers are generated through our own marketing and intake process, with documented consent and verification standards applied before delivery. In a market where lead resellers recycle the same contacts across multiple firms and consent records are often impossible to produce, that paper trail protects your firm as much as it protects ours.

If you want to see how we think about vetting and quality control in more detail, our guide on where to purchase MVA retainers walks through the questions worth asking any provider, including us.

Is paying for signed retainers ethical? The honest answer

Firms ask this before they ask about price, and they should. This is general information, not legal advice for your firm, and your own state bar rules control.

The line that matters is what the money pays for. Paying a flat fee per case for marketing, qualification, and intake work is paying for services. Paying a provider a percentage of your legal fee or a share of a settlement is fee splitting with a non-lawyer, and that is where firms get into trouble.

Our pricing is a flat amount per signed case, starting at $1,950. It does not change based on what the case settles for, and it is never a percentage of your fee. That structure is deliberate.

Two duties stay with your firm no matter who you buy from. Run your own conflict check before you accept a case, and make your own judgment on the merits. A provider doing intake does not replace a lawyer’s professional independence, and any provider who tells you otherwise is a risk, not a partner.

For every case, you should also be able to get the consent record behind it: the disclosure the client saw, the date and time consent was captured, and the record that ties that consent to that client. If a provider cannot produce that for a case you bought, that is a serious problem, and it is a fair test to apply to us as well.

What to do in the first 14 days after a case arrives

The replacement window is also your verification window. Firms that use it well rarely have disputes about quality, because they check the same things we checked, while the window is open.

  1. Day one: Welcome call with the client. Confirm they understand your firm represents them and they are happy to proceed.
  2. Days one to three: Run your conflict check. Review the signed agreement, the accident facts, and the intake notes against your own criteria.
  3. First week: Verify insurance coverage and liability for yourself. Order the police report if your team works that way. Confirm treatment has started.
  4. By day 14: If anything fails the agreed criteria, or the client is unreachable, report it inside the window so it can be replaced. Do not let a questionable case sit in a drawer until week three and then ask why it was not covered.

That routine takes a good paralegal less time than one afternoon of chasing cold leads, and it is what turns a bought case into a worked case quickly.

How to spot a retainer provider you should walk away from

Since this page is meant to be useful even to firms that never buy from us, here is the short list of warning signs that showed up again and again when we looked at this market:

  • No price anywhere, and no price on the sales call either, until you commit to a meeting sequence
  • A guaranteed number of signed cases or a guaranteed settlement value. Nobody can honestly guarantee either one
  • Cases described as exclusive, but the provider will not put one firm per case in writing
  • No replacement terms, or replacement terms you only learn about after a bad case arrives
  • The provider cannot explain, step by step, how a case is qualified and signed
  • The fee is tied to case value or settlement size
  • Pressure to sign a long contract before you have seen a single case file

Ask any provider, including us, to answer those points in writing before money moves.

FAQs

What are MVA retainers?

MVA retainers are motor vehicle accident cases that have already been qualified and signed before they reach your firm. You receive a client who has signed your firm’s own retainer agreement, not a lead your intake team still has to chase and close.

Do clients sign on our firm’s agreement, or yours?

Yours. Clients sign your firm’s own retainer agreement, so the client is your client from the start, on your terms and your fee structure.

How much does a signed MVA retainer cost?

Our signed retainers start from $1,950 per case. Market pricing generally runs from $2,000 to more than $10,000 depending on the state and the case type, with California, Texas, and Florida at the higher end.

Are the retainers exclusive?

Yes. Every signed case is delivered to one firm only. It is never shared or resold.

What criteria are checked before a case is delivered?

The accident must be within the last year, the client must not be at fault, injuries must be confirmed, treatment must have started or be scheduled, insurance must be verified, and the client must not already have an attorney. Your firm’s retainer agreement is signed before delivery.

What if a case does not match what was agreed?

Tell us within 14 days. If a case does not meet the agreed qualification criteria, or the client is unreachable, we will replace it.

Can I choose my states and case types?

Yes. We deliver nationwide, and campaigns are built around your firm’s criteria and geography, including niches such as cars, trucks, motorcycles, and pedestrians, so you receive the cases your firm actually wants.

Am I locked into a contract?

No. There are no contracts. You order signed cases and we deliver them, and you stay because the cases are worth signing, not because a term clause says you have to.

Do you deliver cases for Spanish-speaking clients?

Yes. Cases may involve English-speaking or Spanish-speaking clients, so tell us at setup if your firm can take Spanish-speaking clients, and we will build that into your criteria either way.

What should I check myself when a case arrives?

Run your own conflict check, review the signed agreement and intake notes, verify coverage and liability, and speak to the client. The checklist above walks through the routine for the first 14 days. Your own checks protect your firm, and they are also how the replacement window gets used properly.

Is the fee ever a share of my settlement or legal fee?

No. The price is a flat amount per signed case. It is not a percentage of your fee and it does not change with the value of the case.

How is this different from buying MVA leads?

With leads, your team still has to contact, qualify, and sign the client, and speed decides who wins. With retainers, that work is done before delivery. You pay more per case and spend nothing on chasing the cases that were never going to sign.

Can I start small?

Talk to us about what volume makes sense for your firm and your states. With no contracts, starting with a small batch and judging the cases for yourself is the sensible way to do it. We will give you a straight answer on what we can deliver rather than selling you a number we cannot support.

Ready to buy MVA retainers?

If your firm signs motor vehicle accident cases and intake is the bottleneck, this is the fastest way to put signed cases on your attorneys’ desks without hiring, training, or chasing.

Get current pricing for your state, or book a partner call and we will walk through your states, your criteria, and what we can realistically deliver.