Practice areas with case types
List the specific legal issues you handle from personal injury to estate planning with clear examples.
People hiring attorneys are scared and need reassurance. A sketchy website, hidden fees, or zero information about your actual experience makes them trust the lawyer with the more professional online presence instead.
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Your legal website must establish credibility and generate case leads while you're in court or meeting with clients. Here are the 6 essential features that build trust and book consultations:
List the specific legal issues you handle from personal injury to estate planning with clear examples.
Let prospects schedule initial meetings to discuss their case without any financial commitment.
Introduce your lawyers with credentials, experience, and successful case outcomes or settlements.
Organize reviews by legal specialty so prospects see relevant feedback from similar cases.
Provide helpful guides, articles, and answers to common questions prospects research before hiring.
Explain how you charge, contingency, hourly, or flat fee, so clients understand costs upfront.
I sampled 3,849 law firms across 24 cities and audited every website I could find, 2,969 of them. Here is how the competition stacks up, and where it slips.
75 out of 100
Grade C That puts Lawyers tied 5th of 47 industries I audited.
Longer bar, more local sites getting it wrong. The most common miss: 62% of the sites I audited have no contact form on the homepage.
The average across all 91,904 websites I audited.
A chain location comes with a marketing department. These are the checks where the two groups split hardest. The widest gap is social profile links: 55% of independents against 88% of chains.
WordPress is behind 56% of the sites I audited here. Some sites run more than one and some I could not identify, so these do not add up to 100%.
| Check | Lawyers | All businesses | Difference | Rank | Sites checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Has a website at all | 84.8% | 82.6% | +2 pts | 19th of 47 | 3,849 |
| Passes the mobile-friendly check | 79.6% | 78.2% | +1 pt | 23rd of 47 | 1,906 |
| Loads over HTTPS | 92.9% | 94.4% | -1 pt | 37th of 47 | 2,969 |
| Redirects insecure traffic to HTTPS | 86.8% | 88.4% | -2 pts | 36th of 47 | 2,969 |
| Has a title tag | 99.0% | 99.1% | level | 31st of 47 | 2,731 |
| Writes a meta description | 76.4% | 77.9% | -1 pt | 30th of 47 | 2,731 |
| Has an H1 heading on the homepage | 75.4% | 73.7% | +2 pts | 18th of 47 | 2,969 |
| Uses schema markup | 72.5% | 70.5% | +2 pts | 17th of 47 | 2,969 |
| Has a canonical tag | 86.6% | 84.9% | +2 pts | 17th of 47 | 2,731 |
| Has social sharing tags | 75.2% | 75.7% | level | 22nd of 47 | 2,969 |
| Homepage images carrying alt text | 55.7% | 54.9% | +1 pt | 18th of 47 | 2,969 |
| Publishes a blog | 51.9% | 37.0% | +15 pts | 3rd of 47 | 2,969 |
| Links out to a social profile | 58.3% | 66.2% | -8 pts | 41st of 47 | 2,969 |
| Has a contact form on the homepage | 38.1% | 28.0% | +10 pts | 6th of 47 | 2,969 |
| Runs traffic analytics | 61.2% | 57.7% | +3 pts | 14th of 47 | 2,969 |
| Holds at least one Google review | 92.1% | 88.3% | +4 pts | 23rd of 47 | 3,849 |
| Average mobile speed score | 64/100 | 58/100 | +6 pts | 2nd of 47 | 1,898 |
| Google reviews per business (average) | 57 | 179 | -122 reviews | n/a | 3,849 |
From my State of Small Business Web Design report: 3,849 lawyers sampled across 24 cities, 2,969 websites audited between August 3, 2026 and August 11, 2026, last rebuilt September 23, 2026. The method and the full dataset (CSV, JSON, CC BY 4.0) are free to use with a link back.
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People searching for legal help are stressed and comparing options fast. Here is how we make sure your firm ranks for the right practice area searches and converts urgent visitors into consultations.
One client retainer ($3,000-10,000) pays for your website for three years or more. You only need one case from organic search to break even.
Live in 1 week so urgent searches find you immediately. Bloated agencies drag out simple sites for months.
People search for legal help on phones during breaks at work or after business hours. Mobile contact forms serve clients when they're ready to act.
Built for practice area + location searches with attorney schema. Legal SEO is practice-specific and local. We optimize for exact legal service queries.
Add case results, update practice areas, or change consultation availability. Routine edits like these have a 72-hour target to keep expertise current.
Work directly with Patrick. Practice differentiation and positioning handled by someone who's built 200+ sites and knows what converts.
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Potential clients read carefully before they call. Your client portal shows every consultation request and phone call that came through the site, with the practice area page that produced it. Visitors are charted beside it. Any update you’ve asked for, from a new attorney bio to a new practice area, shows its status. Your files and billing are kept in the same place, and a call with Patrick is one button.
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Here is exactly what you get from day one.
A credible, conversion-focused website that ranks for practice area searches and turns stressed visitors into booked consultations. Mobile-ready and fast.
We keep your site secure, updated, and performing reliably every month. Hosting, maintenance, and monthly reports all included.
On-page SEO built in from the start so your firm shows up when people are urgently searching for legal help in your practice areas.
Every site includes on-page SEO, automated legal policies, custom intake forms, CRM integrations, and website analytics. Everything a law firm needs to rank for practice area searches and convert urgent visitors into consultations, built in from day one.






























The old way was a big deposit, then a maintenance bill you found out about later. We got rid of both. Your law firm website costs $0 to build and $95 a month after that, everything included, and it belongs to you from the first month. Start attracting case leads on day one, cancel any month you want.
How much do I pay today?
$0 to build. Design, words, illustrations, SEO, launch. Your first $95 is your first month, and you don’t pay a cent before your website is live and working for you.
Your first month. Nothing before it.
Is it really one number?
No Basic, Pro or Business. The $95 covers the build, hosting, on-page SEO, unlimited updates, monthly reports and direct access to Patrick. There’s no plan above it, because there isn’t one.
Do I actually own it?
Your domain, your design, your words, your data. The site belongs to you from the first month. Stay because you want to, not because you’re paying something off.
What if I want to leave?
No contract, no lock-in, no exit fee. We have to earn it again every 30 days, which is exactly the point. Go ahead and press the button.
Go on, press it.
That’s it. That’s the whole cancellation.
One client retainer covers years of it. Here's the price, and a site that ranks for the right practice area searches and converts visitors into consultations.
One plan, because you should not have to study a comparison table to buy a website. Every feature below is included from day one.
$95/month
$0 to build. No contract. Cancel anytime.
Your website is yours from day one.
Imagine what you could accomplish with more than just a Home, About and Contact page.
Hand-coded and served from data centers around the world, not a page builder dragging its own weight around. Fast on any phone, on any connection.
No junky stock photos or cookie cutter icons here.
Great copywriting is the difference between a website that sells and one that doesn't.
Essentially this means making it as easy as possible for Google and AI to find you.
Forms that actually convert visitors into leads.
Plain, simple, straightforward, valuable analytics anyone can read.
Local SEO requires hyper-local intent targeting. Almost every service-based business needs this!
Blogs are awesome if they are used authentically. The age of purely info-based content is over.
We can integrate your social media content directly into your website. Strategically, of course. We don't want visitors getting distracted!
Automatically add new reviews from review platforms (Google, Yelp, etc) directly into your website.
Let visitors book meetings, sessions and appointments directly through your site.
Email newsletters help turn your visitors into subscribers.
Your Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions are generated by a specialist legal-policy service and update automatically as privacy laws change. Included, with nothing for you to maintain.
We connect your forms to the CRM you already use: HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho and most other software that connects with outside apps. A custom system gets its own scope.
Automations that send each new lead to the right person, log it in your spreadsheets and handle the follow-up.
Not all hosting is created equal. If you want the Taco Bell of web hosting, Bluehost is waiting for you.
Changes to hours, photos, text and services are included. Routine edits have a 72-hour target; larger requests get an agreed scope and completion date.
No call centers, no offshoring, just your friendly neighborhood Patrick. Based in North America, native English speaker, and fluent in Spanish if that is easier for you.
Here is exactly how we go from zero to a live law firm website.
There's exactly one, and everything is in it. Tap the button, check out securely, and you're done in about two minutes.
No questionnaire. We research your business online and ask only for missing details or access. You review the site before it goes live.
Design, words, photos, SEO, forms, speed. We do all of it, and you see it before anyone else does.
We point your domain at our servers, handle every technical detail, and flip the switch.
Updates, fixes, reports, security, backups. Every month, for as long as you're with us, at no extra cost.
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Show your fee structure (contingency, hourly, flat fee) at minimum. 'Personal injury: contingency, no upfront costs' or 'Estate planning: flat fee starting at $X' builds trust. Mystery pricing makes people nervous about calling.
Only if you'll write helpful articles regularly. One great article per quarter about common legal issues beats a dead blog from 2020. Focus on video or social if you're not a writer.
Credentials, case results, client testimonials, and clear practice area descriptions. 'Recovered $12M for personal injury clients' or '200+ estate plans completed' proves competence. Show real results, not platitudes.
Prominent 'Free Consultation' offers with easy online scheduling. People hiring lawyers are stressed and uncertain. Remove every barrier between 'I need help' and 'I have an appointment booked.'
Absolutely. Someone searching 'personal injury lawyer' has different needs than 'estate planning attorney.' Create specific pages for each practice area and you'll rank better and attract qualified clients.
Very important. People search for lawyers on phones during emergencies or after accidents. If your site doesn't work on mobile or loads slowly, they're calling lawyers with working websites.
Big firms are impersonal. You provide personal attention and actually answer your phone. Emphasize accessibility, responsiveness, and that clients work directly with you, not associates.
If you have strong results, yes. '$2.5M personal injury verdict' or '150+ successful DUI defenses' proves competence. Follow bar association rules about advertising claims.
Only if you'll write consistently about legal issues your clients face. One helpful article per quarter about local laws beats a dead blog from 2020. Quality over quantity.
Google Ads for personal injury or criminal defense can generate calls immediately. For organic SEO, expect 6-12 months. Legal keywords are extremely competitive and expensive.
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