How to Make a Law Firm Video With Your Phone and ChatGPT

If you run a family law or estate planning firm with two to ten attorneys, and you’ve been meaning to start making videos but never have the time, this guide is for you. With a short clip from your phone and ChatGPT, you can have a finished, professional video in about 20 minutes.

Most attorneys we work with have tried video before. Some made five or six, and then court and clients took over and the gas ran out. That isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a systems problem at the editing stage. Editing just takes too long.

So we tested several AI tools to find the fastest way for a busy attorney to get from ‘I recorded something’ to ‘likes and comments’. Below is the process we landed on, including the prompts you can copy and paste.

One thing to be clear about: AI isn’t writing you a script, and it isn’t giving legal advice. These are your words and your expertise. It’s you. AI only handles the editing.

How to Make Your Video

The process has six steps and one optional bonus.

Step 1: Choose What to Talk About

Choose one question your clients ask you all the time, especially new clients. Questions like “How long does a divorce take in [STATE]?” or “Do I need a will if I don’t own much?”

Answer it in one to three minutes, the way you answer a client’s question when they’re sitting across from you.

Step 2: Record Yourself on Your Phone

You don’t need a studio. A few simple choices make a phone video look and sound professional:

Turn the phone sideways. That gives you the horizontal format YouTube and your website use.
Face a window. The light should be in front of you, not behind you.
Keep the phone at eye level. A stack of books works fine.
Choose a quiet room. Sound matters more than picture. If you buy anything, make it a $20 clip-on microphone. Your phone can then sit wherever you want it without needing to be close enough to pick up your voice.
Don’t start over when you stumble. Pause, take a breath, and go back to the start of your previous sentence. The AI editor will cut the mistake later.

Step 3: Get the Video Onto Your Computer

AirDrop it, email it to yourself, or upload it to Google Drive. Use whatever method you already use for photos.

Step 4: Edit It in ChatGPT

On your computer, open ChatGPT and upload your video. Then copy and paste this prompt:

“Edit this video for my law firm’s YouTube channel. Trim the dead air at the beginning and end, remove long pauses and filler words like “um,” remove nonverbal sounds like me clearing my throat, if I retake a line remove the incomplete duplicate, and add clean captions. Adjust the color & lighting to create a professionally-lit scene & subject. Keep everything I said and don’t change my words. No background music.”

Press enter and let it work. In our test, the edit took about four minutes.

Step 5: Make a Few Small Fixes

If something isn’t quite right, tell ChatGPT in plain English. For example:

“Cut the part at 1:12 where I repeat myself.”
“Make the captions larger.”
“Add a contact card at the end with my firm name and phone number.”

That’s all it takes. There’s no editing software and nothing new to learn. It’s a series of clean, repeatable steps that let you focus on sharing your expertise with current and future clients.

Bonus: Add a Piece of B-Roll

If you’d like a little variety, you can add b-roll. B-roll is a short clip of something other than you talking, such as a family walking in a park or someone signing documents. Tell ChatGPT where to put it and for how long:

“At 0:45, show a five-second clip of a family walking in a park while my audio keeps playing.”

Limit it to one or two clips. You are the reason people are watching.

Step 6: Upload Your Finished Video

From raw phone video to finished edit, our test took about 20 minutes. Now upload it to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and your website. That’s one video in four places.

For the title and description, go back to ChatGPT. You give it your practice area, your city, and the question you answered in the video. It gives you five title options and a short description that ends with your phone number and website. Paste this prompt + [fill-in your information]:

“Write five YouTube video titles under 60 characters that a potential client might search for, and a short description that ends with my [PHONE NUMBER] and [WEBSITE] based on this question: [QUESTION]. I’m a [PRACTICE AREA] attorney in [CITY, STATE]. Use plain language, don’t give legal advice, and don’t promise results.”

Then edit the text output so that it is your voice. The prompt also tells ChatGPT not to give legal advice and not to promise results, which keeps the output consistent with your bar’s advertising rules.

What to Do Next

Record one video this week. Choose the question you answered most often last month and follow the steps above. Your first video won’t be perfect, and it doesn’t need to be. It needs to be clear, accurate, and posted.

In our next post, we’ll show you how to turn one batch of law firm videos into a blog post series, social clips, and captions that keep establishing your credibility long after the first video is made.

If you’d rather have someone handle all of this for you, that’s what we do at IFTS Design. We work only with small law firms. Contact us here (https://iftsdesign.com/contactus). The link goes straight to our contact page, with no initial form to fill out.

Law Firm Video Retargeting: Bring Website Visitors Back

How Law Firms Can Use Video Retargeting to Bring Website Visitors Back

Someone visits your law firm’s website. They read your divorce page or your estate planning page. Maybe they even look at your attorney bio.

And then they leave.

That doesn’t necessarily mean they chose another firm. They may have been interrupted, needed to speak with a family member, or simply not been ready to contact an attorney yet.

But if you never reach them again, you’re relying on that person to remember your firm when they are ready.

This is one of the biggest opportunities we see small law firms overlooking. You may already be getting interested people to your website. The question is what happens after they leave.

Start With One Question Your Attorney Already Answers

Let’s say you’re an estate planning attorney. You record a three-minute answer to a question you hear all the time: “Do I need a trust, or is a will enough?”

You could upload the video to YouTube and hope someone finds it. That’s a start. But you’ve already put your time and expertise into the answer.

Why use it only once?

At IFTS, we would also turn that answer into a blog post, embed the video on a relevant page of your website, and pull out a shorter clip for social media. Someone researching wills and trusts now has several ways to encounter your explanation. They can read it, watch it, or come across a short excerpt while scrolling.

That’s the organic side of the strategy. It gives your answer more than one place to live and more than one chance to be useful. We walk through other ways to use a single recording in our article on turning YouTube videos into law firm leads.

But what about someone who has already visited your website and left without calling?

What Is Video Retargeting for a Law Firm?

Retargeting is a way to show ads to an eligible audience of people who previously interacted with your website or content. Google’s explanation of audience segments, for example, includes past website visitors and people who have interacted with a business on Google or YouTube.

Instead of showing those people another generic “Call us today” ad, you could show them a short video of an attorney answering a helpful question.

Imagine someone visited your estate planning page but wasn’t ready to book. Later, they encounter your attorney explaining what factors to consider when deciding between a will and a trust. They’ve seen your firm’s name before. Now they can hear how you explain an issue they’re researching.

Depending on the campaign setup and audience eligibility, a firm may be able to use video to reconnect with interested people across YouTube, other Google ad placements, Facebook, and Instagram. Each platform has its own setup and rules, so this takes more thought than uploading the same ad everywhere.

The goal is to offer another useful interaction with your firm while someone is making a decision.

Because this is legal marketing, privacy and wording matter. A video ad should answer a general question without assuming or announcing anything about a viewer’s personal legal situation. The firm should also review its ads against the applicable platform policies and state attorney advertising rules.

Why Show an Attorney Video Instead of Another Generic Ad?

Think of someone comparing three law firms. Each firm has a professional website. Each might also run an ad asking the person to schedule a consultation.

Now imagine one attorney appears on video and explains what happens during the first meeting. The person can hear the attorney’s voice and get a sense of how they communicate. If the answer helps, that person has a reason to return to the website when they’re ready to take the next step.

That’s why we don’t look at attorney videos as a way to collect views. We want the right people to see a useful answer and feel more comfortable contacting the firm.

The video also needs a clear next step. After watching, someone should be able to reach a relevant practice area page, learn about the consultation process, or contact the firm easily. Our article on turning YouTube views into actual clients explains why that path matters.

How IFTS Used Video as Part of a Larger Law Firm Marketing System

We used this approach as part of a broader marketing system for Bononi & Company, a Pennsylvania law firm.

Their attorneys answered common legal questions on video. We turned those answers into blog posts, shared them on social media, placed them on YouTube, and used videos in retargeting ads.

Across the broader digital campaigns, we tracked more than 1,530 calls and contact form submissions. Their YouTube videos received more than 17,000 views. Those results are from the combined marketing system; they aren’t results we can attribute to retargeting alone.

That’s why this example matters to us. Search and ads helped people find the firm. Blog posts and videos answered their questions. Retargeting provided another opportunity for interested people to see the attorneys before deciding whether to reach out.

No single video or ad gets all the credit. The strategy is in connecting the pieces.

How to Choose Your First Retargeting Video Topic

If your firm already gets website visitors, ask yourself:

What would those visitors benefit from hearing from us before they decide to call?

The answer might be:

“What happens at our first consultation?”
“How long does probate usually take?”
“What affects the cost of a divorce?”

Choose a question that matters to the clients you want to serve and that you can answer clearly without knowing the details of a particular case.

Then use the answer in more than one place: on your website, in a related blog post, in shorter social clips, and, where appropriate, in a thoughtful retargeting campaign. If you need a framework for planning the topics and measuring the results, see our video content strategy guide for law firms.

Make More of the Website Traffic You Already Have

Putting this together takes time. You need to choose topics, edit the recordings, add captions, create blog posts and clips, set up eligible ad audiences, and track whether people actually contact the firm.

That’s the work we handle at Integrity First Technology Solutions. Our process can turn four short attorney answers each month into YouTube videos, blog posts, short clips, and content for organic and paid distribution – with 30 minutes or less of your time per month.

You already have the expertise. You’re already answering these questions. We help those answers reach people who are considering your firm, including visitors who weren’t ready to call the first time they saw your website.

Want to see how that could work for your law firm? Book a call with IFTS.

Why Your Law Firm’s Website Isn’t Getting You Clients (And What Actually Works in 2026)

If you run a family law or estate planning firm with two to ten attorneys, and almost every new client still comes from a referral…while your website just sits there…this one’s for you.

Your website probably isn’t getting you clients, but it’s not for the reason you think. And fixing it takes a week, not four months.

The problem you can't see

Your website doesn’t get judged from your desk.

It’s eleven o’clock at night, and a woman in your county is sitting on the edge of her bed with her phone, trying to decide whether she needs a divorce attorney. She’s stressed. She’s tired. And she is one thumb-swipe away from choosing the firm down the street, not you.

Two things lose her, and neither one has anything to do with how good a lawyer you are.

First: the site is slow. On a phone. On a cell signal. Not on your office fiber. If it takes more than a few seconds to load, she’s gone…and there’s no notification. You will never know she was there.

Second: it looks dated. And this one matters more than people give it credit for, because she cannot evaluate your legal work. She’s never hired a lawyer before. She has no way to judge whether you’re good at custody cases. So she judges the one piece of evidence she has.

If your site looks dated, she assumes you are too.

That’s not an opinion about design. That’s a trust transfer.

And the reason you don’t know any of this is happening?

The site looks fine to you. You pull it up on your desktop, on office wifi, and it loads instantly. Your website fails in the exact place you never look.

Under the hood, it’s usually the same four things:

It was built for a desktop, then squished down to sort of work on a phone
Somebody loaded in beautiful, enormous photos that nobody ever compressed
There’s no CDN, so every visitor pulls the whole site from one server, wherever that server happens to live
And there are moving pieces like sliders, fades, and rotating banners…that looked current in 2015 and now just add weight

A lot of these sites were built by office staff, or by somebody’s teenager who was “good with computers.” That’s not a knock. It kept the cost down and it got you a website when you needed one. It’s now an issue that just shows up on a phone.

It's a homework problem, not a design problem

Here’s the part nobody says out loud.

When a firm finally decides to fix the website, the project takes four to six months. Sometimes longer. And the instinct behind it is completely reasonable: you want to control every word on your site. Of course you do. It’s your name on the door, it’s your license, and there’s a bar association with opinions about what you claim.

But watch what that reasonable instinct does to the project.

You tell the designer you’ll write the practice-area pages yourself. Then you have a hearing. Then a client emergency. Then it’s Thursday and you’re six billable hours behind. Website content is priority number 47 on a list of 40 things. The designer emails to check in. You feel a little guilty. Two more weeks go by.

Four months later, you’ve got half a website and a vague sense that you failed at homework.

You didn’t. The process failed. It was built around a bottleneck – and the bottleneck is you, writing.

Then there’s the other version: the twenty-five-thousand-dollar agency build. Everybody owns a piece of it – a strategist, a copywriter, a designer, an account manager, and meetings to align the other meetings. The price tag becomes a little bit of a badge of honor: you spent $25K, so it must be good. What you actually bought is an amalgam of fifty people’s vision. Design by committee never works. Trust us – we have see this more than once.

One more thing, and this is the one that changed how we do this. Almost every attorney asks for a site they can edit themselves, so they can make changes whenever they want. It adds build time and it adds cost.

In all the years we’ve been doing this, we have never had one attorney make a change. Not one.

So here’s the diagnosis: your website project doesn’t have a design problem. It has a homework problem. Take the homework out, and the whole thing takes a week.

Here is what actually works: talking, not writing

In practice, this is 4 steps.

Step one: the research happens before you’re involved. Before we ever get on a call, we pull what people in your county are actually typing into Google. Not what a keyword tool thinks lawyers should rank for – what your neighbors are asking at eleven at night.

“What happens to the house in a divorce.”

“Do I need probate if there’s a will.”

Phrases exactly like those, attached to your county.

Step two: the Speak It To Me session. That’s a 30-to-60-minute interview, and it’s the only real time commitment in this. We’ve engineered the questions ahead of time so that when you answer them the way you’d answer a client in your conference room, you’re naturally saying the exact phrases people are searching for. You think you’re just talking. You’re writing your own SEO out loud.

No scary blank page staring back at you. No document waiting for you on a Sunday night.

Step three: the outline comes out of your transcript – and you approve it. Nothing text-wise is templated, and nothing is invented. We build the outline from what you actually said, send it to you, and you sign off before a single page gets built. You can read the finished copy word for word if you want to, but it’s pretty much what you said.

If you’ve read our post on the AI sanctions cases, you’ll recognize the rule: we never publish words that didn’t come from you.

Your total time on the whole project, start to finish: one to two hours. Ever.

Step four: we build it and it goes live. Eight pages – home, about, contact, testimonials, plus four pages of your choosing, which for most firms means practice-area pages written for the county you actually serve.

One call to action, sitewide, worded identically everywhere.

Click-to-call in the menu, because she’s on a phone.

And a contact page with an email sequence behind it, so the person who fills out that form at eleven at night gets a response before you’re awake.

That last one matters more than it sounds. Most sites don’t email anybody back. That’s the gap where cases quietly die.

You also get an About Your Firm video and a client testimonial video, cut from the same session – so the person who lands on your homepage sees an actual human being, not a stock photo of a gavel.

Want to see the difference? Taczak Law, The Law Office of Brett Clancy, and Amanda Faher’s before-and-afters are on the One Week Website page. These firms did not need to become different law firms. They needed websites that better reflected the quality of the work they were already doing.

Could you do this yourself? Honestly - yes.

None of it is a secret.

You could pull your own keyword data with ubersuggest, record yourself talking for forty minutes using Zoom or some other video recording software, get it transcribed or use a service like otter.ai, then hand it to a designer to “make it pretty.”

The reason it doesn’t happen isn’t that you don’t know how. It’s that the writing part is homework, and homework loses to billable work every single time. That’s not a character flaw. That’s just what running a practice does to a calendar.

How the IFTS One Week Website works

You start Monday. You launch the following Monday. One week. And the only thing that has ever broken that clock is the client delaying – which, honestly, kind of proves our point.

Then it keeps working after launch:

Local SEO Booster: your Google Business Profile optimized, Bing Places set up, up to fifty directory citations, a press release, and a visibility baseline so you can see where you started
Technology, handled: managed hosting, SSL, the CDN (remember the speed problem), backups, and updates
And the part we’d want to hear if we were you: we spend our own money – up to thirty dollars a month – advertising your video in your local market. Most companies launch your site and wait. We don’t.

The price, plainly: $350 a month for twelve months. $4,200 total. That’s less than the deposit on the four-month committee site – and yours is live next Monday.

Who this is for: solo and small firms – family law, estate planning, probate, business law – with a site that’s dated, slow, or was put together by whoever in the office was willing.

Who it’s not for: firms that want six stakeholders in every meeting. That’s a real thing some firms need. It just isn’t this.

The bottom line

Your website should reflect the firm you’ve actually built. You don’t need another year of telling yourself you’ll get to it, and you don’t need to write a single page. You need thirty to sixty minutes and something to say – and after twenty years of practice, you’ve got plenty.

See the before-and-afters full size and check whether your firm qualifies on the One Week Website page. It’s a short form, not a sales gauntlet – nothing to download, nothing gated. Start Monday. Launch next Monday.