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You have a strong case. Now you need thousands of group members to know it.

Australia runs an opt-out class action system, so unlike the US there is no market for buying and selling claimant leads. The real challenge is different: identifying, engaging and mobilising potentially thousands of affected group members, many of whom have no idea they have grounds to join, and building enough participation and trust to make the case viable to litigation funders.

The problem

The hardest part isn't winning the case. It's reaching the people entitled to join it.

Under Australia's opt-out regime, every potential group member is automatically included in a class action unless they actively exclude themselves. That sounds like an advantage, but it means the people your case depends on are often unaware a claim even exists, scattered across the country, and unlikely to search for your firm by name. Building the numbers a case needs takes real outreach, not a waiting room.

At the same time, litigation funders have grown more cautious. Case quality, rigorous qualification and robust evidence now matter more than ever, and all of that depends on engaging the right group members in sufficient numbers, early enough to demonstrate the case is viable. Recent high-profile cases have also raised concerns about legal costs and transparency, so group members are more cautious about who they trust and why. Firms that communicate clearly and build genuine participation are the ones that get the numbers other firms can't.

Why it keeps happening

Three reasons strong class actions never reach the group members they need.

None of them are about the merits of the case. All of them are fixable.

01

Group members don't know they're eligible

Under an opt-out system, most affected people never receive a direct notice. They find out only if they happen to search for what happened to them, and if your firm isn't visible when they do, they never hear from you at all.

02

Weak visibility when people search for answers

Affected people search in their own words, not legal terms, and increasingly ask AI tools instead of Google. A firm that isn't built to be found and cited in both misses the moment people are actually looking.

03

No clear, trusted path to register interest

Even an interested group member drops off without a simple, transparent way to register and understand what happens next. In a climate of real scrutiny over legal costs, unclear communication costs you participation.

Built on experience

We understand class actions, because we've spent twenty years marketing exclusively for law firms.

Practice Proof works with law firms only, and has for over twenty years. Class action work is unlike almost any other practice area we support: success depends on reaching and mobilising large numbers of people who often don't know they're part of the case, not on converting people already searching for a lawyer.

Our AI-driven systems and proprietary software are built to identify where affected people are searching and asking, and to get your firm found and trusted there. Add a Certified StoryBrand methodology that makes complex legal processes easy to understand, and you have an approach built to turn awareness into registered group members.

One thing to be straight about: we're not a Goliath agency, and we don't take on every firm. We keep our client list small and work closely with each firm for years, some for over two decades. If we take you on, it's because we're confident we can genuinely help.

Two decades, law firms only
We don't learn your industry on your time. Twenty years of law-firm marketing evidence, and nothing else.
AI-driven systems
Proprietary software, including LawDash, trained on two decades of legal-industry data, not adapted from a generic platform.
Certified StoryBrand messaging
A framework trained specifically to make legal expertise clear and compelling, not generic marketing copy.
The plan

Three steps to building the group member numbers your case needs.

Simple, clear, and built to earn trust in a category under real scrutiny.

Step 1

Get your free audit

We show you exactly where affected people would find you today, and where they wouldn't, on Google, on AI platforms, and once they land on your site. No jargon, no obligation.

Step 2

We build outreach and a registration pathway

We build campaigns, content and landing pages designed to reach group members directly and give them a clear, transparent way to register interest. Run by senior strategists, backed by AI-driven systems, not handed to a junior or account manager.

Step 3

Grow registered participation you can show funders

You see it in the numbers: more group members identified and engaged, a clearer picture of participation, and the case-viability signals litigation funders want to see.

What that looks like in practice

The pieces that turn affected people into registered group members.

Start with the one that's costing you most, or have us run the lot. Either way it's built around how group members actually find out they have a claim.

What’s at stake

This gap doesn't stay still. It compounds.

If nothing changes

Group members who never hear about the case stay unaware and unrepresented, your registration numbers stay too thin to satisfy a litigation funder, and a case with real merit struggles to get off the ground.

If you fix it

You build the visibility and trust needed to reach group members at scale, growing registered participation you can point to, and giving your case the momentum funders and the court want to see.

Who you become

The firm group members actually find, and trust enough to join.

Imagine a group member searching for what happened to them and finding your firm, clearly explaining what an opt-out class action means and what registering involves. That's not about outspending national campaigns. It's visibility and transparent communication built on twenty years of evidence about how people search and decide who to trust.

And you're never locked in or left alone. Come to us for one thing or the whole engine. Flat monthly fee, no hourly billing, no bill shock. If we build something for your team to run, we couple it with training and ongoing support, you always have us to call on.

Questions class action firms ask us

Answered plainly.

We don't buy leads. Isn't that how class actions get claimants?

Not in Australia. Unlike the US, there's no market for buying and selling claimant leads here, because the opt-out system already includes everyone affected. The work is making sure those people find out the case exists and understand what registering means.

How do you reach people who don't know they're affected?

Mostly through visibility at the moment they start looking for answers, on Google and increasingly through AI tools, plus clear, credible content that explains the case in plain English rather than legal terms.

Does building trust really affect our registration numbers?

Yes. With growing scrutiny over legal costs and transparency in class actions, group members are more cautious about who they engage with. Clear, honest communication is now part of what drives participation, not just awareness.

Can we start before the case is fully certified?

Yes. Most firms start building visibility and a registration pathway as soon as the litigation is public, because early participation numbers are part of what makes a case viable to a litigation funder in the first place.

The first step is a free audit, not a commitment

Start building the participation your case needs.

Get a free audit and we'll show you exactly where group members would find you today, and the three things that would fix it fastest. Twenty years of law-firm-only experience, AI-driven systems, and a Certified StoryBrand methodology. We only take on firms we're confident we can genuinely help.

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