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It treats the symptom at your own expense. A larger cap does keep your ads serving later in the day, which recovers some visibility, but it also funds more of the bad clicks that drained the original budget. You end up paying more for the same proportion of waste. Removing the worthless traffic is the cheaper route to the same visibility.

Both suffer, for slightly different reasons. Personal injury carries very high cost per click and very high case value, so each wasted click is expensive and each missed case is costly. Criminal defense gets searches at unpredictable hours, which means budget exhaustion during the day removes you from exactly the late-night and weekend moments that produce calls.

Your campaigns run on a daily cap, and once it is spent your ads stop serving until the next day. If the cap is emptying by mid-morning while calls and form fills stay flat, something is consuming clicks that will never convert. The cost is not just those clicks. It is every afternoon and evening search you were absent for.

Take your actual average cost per click, estimate the share of clicks producing no meaningful engagement, and multiply by monthly click volume. That is the direct cost. Then add the harder figure: the hours each day when your budget was exhausted and your ads stopped serving. For most firms that second number is larger, and it appears nowhere in standard reporting.

There is no verified figure, and most numbers you will find online trace back to estimates that other sites then repeated as fact. Google does not publish cost per click tables by industry. What is established is the ranking: legal sits among the most expensive verticals in paid search. For your own planning, pull the actual average cost per click from your account.