Website Design for Law Firms

Your reputation took years to build.

Your website should reflect it. 90% of referred prospects research your firm online before they call. The ones who don’t call never tell you why.

Lighthouse100/100
DeliveryUnder 1 week
Starting at$3,997
Lock-inNone
Domain depth

We have shipped for Australian law firms before.

A law firm site has two readers who do not overlap. The first is a person in distress searching at 11pm. The second is an in-house GC at a corporate buyer comparing matter lists. The same site has to land both, without sounding desperate to one or stiff to the other.

  • ASCR Rule 36 advertising restrictions, plus state-by-state LPUL variations and what wording is actually allowed in headlines and case write-ups
  • LEAP, Smokeball, and Clio matter intake integration patterns and how to wire a contact form into the practice management system without exposing client data
  • Practice-area page architecture that lets one site cover family, criminal, commercial, property, employment, and immigration without cannibalising
  • How a senior partner actually reads the team page and what specific signals (admission year, judgment list, law school, bar associations) win the read

Recent work in this space: Thornfield Legal and Equal Legal both run on this stack.

The clients you never hear from.

A colleague refers someone your way. Before they pick up the phone, they check your website. It loads slowly. The design looks five years old. On mobile, the text overlaps.

They close the tab. Your colleague never finds out. Neither do you.

“I almost didn’t call you because of your website. Looked so outdated I wasn’t sure you were still in business.”

Client to lawyer, r/legalmarketing

Legal Practice Intelligence: 90% of prospects research a firm online between receiving a referral and making contact. One Sydney lawyer discovered only 1 in 4 of her referrals were actually calling.

The Math
family lawyer sydney5,400/mo
criminal lawyer sydney2,900/mo
divorce lawyer sydney5,400/mo
employment lawyer sydney1,900/mo

Source: DataForSEO, April 2026. Sydney, AU.

Position one captures 27% of clicks. For “family lawyer sydney” alone, that is 1,458 visitors a month.

At 3% inquiry rate and $8,000 per matter, one keyword is worth $344,000 a month. The question is what they see when they arrive.

$344Kpotential monthly revenuefrom a single keyword

Build on stone. Not sand.

Next.js loads in under a second. Google rewards speed with higher rankings. WordPress slows you down, plugins break, and your PageSpeed drops every time you add a feature.

Slow sites cost you twice.

A slow landing page tanks your Google Ads Quality Score. Your cost per click inflates 25 to 400%. And 96% of WordPress vulnerabilities come from plugins. For a law firm, that is a professional liability.

You own everything

Code, domain, hosting. No lock-in. No platform fees.

Month-to-month

No contracts. One competitor requires 36-month commitments.

Delivered in days

5-7 business days. Others quote 6-12 weeks.

Pricing

Published pricing. No “book a call” games.

One new client pays for your website eight times over.

Starter

$3,997

Solo practitioners and new practices.

  • Up to 5 pages
  • Custom design, mobile-first
  • SEO + schema markup
  • 100/100 Lighthouse, 3-5 days
  • Full code ownership
Get started

Need it sooner?

Most Popular

Professional

$5,997

Boutique firms investing in growth.

  • Up to 10 pages
  • Practice areas + team profiles + blog
  • Full SEO + keyword research
  • Lead capture + conversion tracking
  • 2 rounds of revisions
Get started

Need it sooner?

Premium

$9,997

Mid-tier firms scaling operations.

  • Unlimited pages
  • Client portal + booking system
  • Custom integrations (CRM, practice management)
  • Priority support, unlimited revisions
Get started

Need it sooner?

50% upfront, 50% on delivery. Maintenance from $197/mo. Express delivery starts the build the next business morning and ships in half the standard timeline.

How It Works

Four steps.
Under a week.

Chris Raad, founder of Studio Slate
FounderChris Raad

Studied law. Built Equal Legal, an AI legal documents platform, in 2.5 weeks. Every legal project he leads is designed against ASCR Rule 36 and the LPUL from the first design call.

Discovery call

15 minutes. We learn about your firm, your goals, and your timeline. You learn whether we are the right fit.

Design and build

We build your site on our proven architecture. You review a staging link and request changes.

Review and launch

Final revisions, content loaded, SEO checked. We switch the domain with zero downtime.

Ongoing support

Optional maintenance from $197/mo. Or take the code and run it yourself.

Practice areas we serve

Built for every practice area, not just the obvious ones.

Each practice area has its own buyer, its own intake friction, and its own compliance footprint. We understand the differences because we have built for firms in each one.

Family law

The most emotional buyer in legal. They are searching at 11pm after a hard conversation. The site has to feel safe before it asks for a phone number. Confidential intake, plain-English fee structure, and a tone that lowers the pulse.

Family law websites >>>

Criminal law

Time-sensitive intake, often after hours, often from a custody phone. Click-to-call must work on the first tap. The site has to project authority without sounding boastful, and route urgent matters to the right partner inside two minutes.

Commercial & corporate

The buyer is a CFO, a GC, or a founder. They will read your matter list and your bench. We build proper team pages, case write-ups with structured outcomes, and a tone that treats the reader like the senior they are.

Property & conveyancing

High volume, narrow margin, and a buyer who has already decided to compare three firms on price. Transparent fixed fees, fast quote forms, and integration with PEXA workflows win the matter before the call.

Employment law

Two distinct buyers on one site. Employees in distress on one side, employers managing risk on the other. The architecture has to keep them in different lanes without feeling like two firms pretending to be one.

Immigration law

The buyer is reading in their second language and the stakes are visa-shaped. Plain-English copy, multilingual landing options where they help, and content that maps to the actual Department of Home Affairs visa subclasses.

Personal injury, wills and estates, insolvency, and litigation support all sit on the same architecture. We brief on practice area inside the kickoff call and tune the intake flow, compliance footprint, and tone to match.

FAQ

Common questions.

Ready to stop apologising for your website?

15 minutes. No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation about whether your site is costing you business.