Bexar County Criminal Defense
Publish and distribute a post
Approve the staged campaign, then send it to the firm’s channels, with an honest map of which destinations are one click and which are a guided handoff a person finishes.
Before you start
You need a campaign already built and sitting in the staging queue, the kind the Creative Studio assembles from one announcement: the release, the sized images, the MP4, the platform posts, and a distribution list. You also need the firm’s accounts connected for the channels that support a direct connection. And you need to know the wall this page runs into on purpose: nothing leaves until an attorney approves it and the State Bar advertising-review step a lawyer’s marketing requires is cleared. This page is where the work goes out, so it is also where that wall holds firm.
1. Open the staged campaign and review every asset
Open the campaign from the queue. Before anything goes anywhere, read what is about to go out: the press release, each sized image, the MP4, and the per-platform posts side by side. Confirm the facts still match the announcement, the advertising identity block is present on every asset, and the copy carries no outcome promise or comparative claim. This is the last read before the public sees it, so it is the read that matters most.
2. Record the attorney approval
Approval is a recorded act, not a vibe. When the attorney is satisfied, they approve the campaign, and the system writes an approval entry with a timestamp against it. That record is the control point: until it exists, the distribution controls stay locked and nothing can be sent. This is the same draft-and-hold posture that governs the casework side, carried over to the firm’s voice. Software does not decide a lawyer’s advertising is ready. The lawyer does, on the record.
3. Confirm the State Bar advertising-review step
A Texas lawyer’s advertising answers to Rules 7.01 through 7.06, and some of it requires a State Bar advertising-review filing, preapproval, or a recorded exemption decision before it runs. The page surfaces that step and holds distribution until it is accounted for. Confirm the review status for this campaign here. The system will not let the post go out ahead of it, because the wall between approval and the public is the Bar process, and that wall is built in rather than left to memory.
4. Send to the one-click channels
Now the distribution panel comes alive. The destinations are tagged plainly: one-click where the platform offers a direct connection, guided handoff where it does not. The firm’s connected accounts on the platforms that support direct posting go out as a one-click action: the approved post and its image publish to the firm’s own account after approval. LinkedIn, the natural home for a defense practice talking to other lawyers and CLE audiences, posts to the firm’s company page through its own connection. You click once per connected channel; the system posts in each platform’s native shape from the one approved campaign.
5. Finish the guided handoffs
The honest part. The channels without a direct connection today are set up as guided handoffs, and the page says so out loud rather than pretending they are automatic. For each, the Studio drafts and formats the piece in the right shape, opens the correct submission path, and hands it to a person to publish on the firm’s account or to send to the outlet. The San Antonio press releases route the same way: formatted for each outlet, handed off to be sent. As direct connections come online they will be marked one-click, and not before.
6. Confirm what went where
When the one-click sends are done and the guided handoffs are in motion, the campaign view updates to show the state of each destination: posted, handed off, or still pending. You are left with a plain record of where the announcement landed and what still needs a human hand to finish, so nothing is assumed sent that was only drafted. The receipts live with the campaign, the same way the daily review shows the casework side its own work.
What you have now
One approved announcement, distributed: posted in a single click to the firm’s connected channels, formatted and handed to a person for the channels and outlets that still need one, and recorded so you can see exactly where it went. The attorney approval and the Bar advertising-review step both sit on the record behind it. The firm that finally has time to be in the room with the client also, at last, got its voice into the community, without ever letting software send a lawyer’s advertising on its own.
The whole machine
Ten logins down to two
One subscription stands in for the stack a defense firm usually stitches together, so the practice runs on two things it already trusts: Google Workspace, where the files and matters live, and The IMC Machine, where the matter runs. LawPay and QuickBooks, the money rail, stay where they are, fed by the Machine. Casework, evidence, motions, vouchers, marketing, and events, in one place.
San Antonio and Bexar County. The Machine is built for here first. For another city, county, or region, the build-out is custom and carries its own setup fee.
