Attorneys & Law Firms web design agency
A law firm website for the person who can't sleep.
Trouble keeps no office hours. We build firm sites that tell a worried reader who you are, what happens next and how to reach you, and we leave the wording of every claim to you and your counsel.
Free 15-minute call · written quote · build starts within 24 hours
Fixed prices, published
- Up to 10 pages$1,500
- 11 to 20 pages$2,250
- 21 to 50 pages$3,750
- 51 to 70 pages$5,750
Each one includes SEO, design, content writing, content management, lead forms, online booking and a year of support. See the full price list.
What we measured
30 independent Phoenix-area law firms, tested on a simulated phone. Homepages only, totals only, and no business is named.
78.5median mobile speed score, of 100
3.8suntil the main content shows
3%offer online booking on the homepage
40%show a phone link and no form or booking
From our Phoenix-area website tests. A small group can swing on a few sites.
The phone link works. The office is closed.
Our read: nobody browses for a lawyer. Something has happened. A letter came, or an arrest, or a spouse moved out. We'd expect that reader to be on a phone, at an hour when your front desk is asleep, reading less than you hope and remembering all of it.
100% of the 30 law firms we tested have a tap-to-call link on the homepage. At 11 p.m. that link may ring an empty office. 3% offer online booking on the homepage, and on 40% a phone link is the only way in from the homepage. Our opinion is that a firm that lets someone start at midnight holds an edge over one that asks them to wait for morning. We built that for James Schafer Law: structured intake forms on a hand-coded application, so a prospective client can start a matter at midnight and the practice opens the next day to an organized file.
There are two things we won't do. We won't tell you what your state bar allows, because we aren't your lawyers. And we won't promise cases, because nobody who builds websites can. We'd draft the pages, hand them to whoever reviews them at your firm and change what comes back marked up, at a published flat price. No hourly meter runs. You may find that restful.
What we build against
- One practice-areas page with nine topics and a paragraph each, which helps nobody with a specific problem.
- A form with a large empty box, asking for the whole story before anyone knows whether the firm can take the matter.
- Attorney bios that give the law school and the year, and leave out what the lawyer does all day.
- Fees nobody can learn about without calling, when fees may be what's keeping the reader awake.
- Search work bought separately from a site that gives it nothing to stand on.
Inside a attorneys & law firms website
Written for one bad week at a time.
A firm's site earns its keep on practice-area pages, one for each kind of matter, written for the person in that situation. A DUI reader and a probate reader share no vocabulary and, we'd hope, no Tuesday. Each page says who it's for, what the firm handles, how a first conversation goes and how fees get discussed. The writing is included in every package. We draft from your notes and you correct what we got wrong. We'd leave any sentence telling a reader what the law requires of them to a lawyer at your firm.
Those pages are also what search work has to stand on. We set up the page structure, the titles and the markup, and we can tune the firm's Google profile as separate work. We can't promise where any of it lands. The wider marketing picture sits on our law firm marketing page.
Then comes intake. We'd start short: a name, a phone number, the type of matter and a line or two. How much more to ask, what notice sits above the button, and what a submission does and doesn't mean are questions for you and your counsel. We put their words on the page. Conversion tracking can then show which pages produce inquiries. For background on what firms ask their counsel about, we wrote up the words that come up most. It isn't advice about your state.
The pages a firm's site needs
Practice-area pages
One per kind of matter, written to the person living it, so a divorce reader never wades through bankruptcy.
Attorney pages
Who the reader will actually sit across from: what each lawyer handles and where each is admitted, in words you've approved.
How fees get discussed
Contingency, flat or hourly, in plain terms your firm has signed off on. The reader is wondering anyway.
Your first consultation
What happens, how long it takes and what to bring. A frightened person likes a list.
An urgent contact page
For matters that can't wait until morning, a route plainly separate from routine intake. Who answers it is your firm's decision.
Reviews and past results, if cleared
Held back until your counsel has read it. If the answer is no, the page doesn't exist and the rest of the site carries on.
What goes between the reader and your intake desk
A consultation calendar
Online booking comes with every package, so a reader can pick a time for a call without leaving a voicemail. If your firm splits intake by practice area, tell us at the start and we'll scope it in the written quote.
Structured intake
Lead form capture is in every package. A fuller intake application, like the one we built for James Schafer Law, is quoted separately. Those start from $575, and the price depends on complexity.
An after-hours answer
An AI receptionist can take contact details and the type of matter when the office is closed. You approve the script. Whether it should answer at all, and what it may ask, are questions for your counsel first. It's an add-on, quoted in writing.
Pages that don't keep a reader waiting
The 30 law firms we ran through the speed test post a median mobile score of 78.5 on the homepage, against 63 across our whole Phoenix-area sample. Compare your own number to the firms you compete with, since we'd expect those are the ones a reader tries next. If yours trails, here's what we'd look at.
Ad pages that match the ad
If you buy search ads, a landing page for each kind of matter keeps the promise the ad made. The ad copy and the page go through your counsel like everything else.
What we'd take off a firm's site first
- A gavel on the homepage. Judges hold gavels. Your reader came looking for a lawyer.
- A testimonial, a past result or the word "specialist" going live before your counsel has read the sentence.
- Answering every question about money with "call us." We'd bet the reader decides to, and then doesn't.
- A contact form that has never been tested on a phone, sitting behind a firm that has spent real money on ads.
Why a firm hires one developer for this
Your counsel keeps the last word
We'd draft, your counsel marks it up and we change it. We won't argue bar rules with you, and we'd hold a page until your reviewer has read it.
We have built intake before
James Schafer Law runs on a custom application with structured intake forms, and we'll gladly walk you through how it works.
A number you can take to your partners
Fixed prices by page count, in writing, before any money moves. You may bill by the hour. We don't, and you may enjoy the change.
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What stood out was the balance of design and operations.
The site looked polished, but the real win was behind the scenes: better forms, cleaner handoffs, stronger tracking, fewer manual steps.
First class all the way!
From the prompt communication, being available seven days a week, to the nuts and bolts of getting our project completed on time and on budget — I highly recommend!
A complete demo for this trade
Built around what the firm declines.
Whitmore & Vance is a law firm we invented so you could see the work instead of reading about it. An asymmetric split hero with type that rises as the photographs unmask, a staircase practice grid, and selectivity used as the argument instead of a list of everything.
Open it on a phone. That is where the difference between a real build and a template stops being a matter of opinion.
Whitmore & Vance is fictional. The design is not.
Questions we hear a lot.
What does a law firm website cost?
Fixed prices by page count: $1,500 for up to 10 pages, $2,250 for 11 to 20, $3,750 for 21 to 50 and $5,750 for 51 to 70. Each kind of matter wants its own page, so a firm with many practice areas will land further down that list. Every package includes SEO, design, content writing, content management, lead form capture, online booking, one custom third-party API integration and a year of support. A custom intake application is quoted separately, from $575, depending on complexity. There's 0% financing with 25% down, up to 12 months on any project, and financed projects are hosted on the DataCram platform for the length of the plan. See pricing.
Can you tell us what our state bar allows on the site?
No. That's for your state bar or your ethics counsel. We're web developers, and a wrong guess from us would cost you far more than it costs us. We'd send drafts early so whoever reviews them has time. If it helps the conversation, we've written about the words firms ask about, as background only.
Can we publish reviews and past case results?
Ask your counsel first. If the answer is yes, we build the section to carry whatever wording they want beside each one. If the answer is no, the site makes its case with attorney pages, practice-area pages and a straight account of how fees get discussed. A firm can say a great deal without quoting anybody.
What should the intake form ask?
We'd start with a name, a phone number, the type of matter and a line or two. What notices go above the form and how much detail to accept are for you and your counsel, and we add the wording they give us. If the form you have now has stopped sending, that's a repair we do.
How long does it take?
Build starts within 24 hours of your go-ahead and most sites go live in 7 to 10 days. Your counsel's review runs on its own clock, so the sooner they have the draft, the better. We won't name a date that depends on someone else's calendar.
Will a new site bring us more cases?
We can't promise that, and we'd be wary of anyone who does. We can build pages that answer what a reader is asking, make the firm easy to reach, and show through tracking which pages produce inquiries. Whether an inquiry becomes a client depends on your market, your reputation and whoever picks up.
Have you built for a law firm before?
Yes. James Schafer Law is a custom PHP and MySQL application with structured intake forms and an SEO structure for practice-area and local searches. For a look at design, Whitmore & Vance is a fictional firm we made up as a demonstration. You can click through it, and no partner will object.
We already have a site. Do we need a new one?
Maybe not. Run it through our website health check first. If the bones are sound, a repair may do. If the trouble runs deeper, here's what a rebuild involves.
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