Website design for solo and small firms
A solo attorney's website has to do the front desk's job: say which matters you take, show the person a new client will actually work with, and let the right people book a consultation without a phone call. We design and write it around your practice. Most solo practices fit the Website launch, $499, and you read a free first draft before anything is due.
We usually recommend the Website launch: up to 5 pages, $499 once.
You by name, the matters you take and the ones you don't, fees in plain words, and booking that runs without a receptionist.
People who hire a solo attorney are hiring you: your photo, where you practiced before, your bar admissions and the courts you appear in, and a few lines in your own voice about how you work. A real portrait says more than any skyline or gavel.
A short, honest list of what you handle, each with a paragraph on who it's for and what a first meeting covers, plus a line on what you don't take that points callers to your state bar's lawyer referral service. You turn down fewer calls and keep your consultations for work you can accept.
A consultation button on every page opens your Calendly, Clio Grow or Lawmatics booking page, so people pick a time while you're in a hearing. If you'd rather screen first, a short form asks only for contact details and the practice area, with a note that sending it doesn't make anyone your client.
Whether the consultation is free or paid, whether you work on flat fees, by the hour or on contingency, and how existing clients pay their invoices, in the words you give us. Stating it up front spares you the calls from people who were never going to retain you.
ABA Model Rule 7.2(d), which many states follow, asks that lawyer advertising, websites included, name a lawyer or firm responsible for it with contact details. For a solo that's you: your name, where you meet clients and the disclaimers your state requires, in the footer of every page. If you work from a home office or meet by video, the site says so rather than implying an office you don't keep.
With the care plan, a new bar admission, changed hours or a new practice area is one of the 4 small edits a month: send an email and it's done. Nobody has to learn a website editor late at night.
Sample sites for made-up businesses, designed to show what we do: open one on your phone and try it. On your site, booking and payment buttons open the tools you already use.
A solo or two-attorney practice usually says everything a new client needs on a handful of pages: the matters you take, who you are, how fees work and how to book. That's the Website launch: up to 5 pages for $499, paid once when you launch.
Intake questionnaires, your calendar and invoice payments stay in the tools a small practice already pays for, and each button on the site opens the right one. Nothing confidential passes through the website, and switching tools later only means a new link.
"& Associates" with no associates, "our team" over a stock photo, or offices you don't staff can mislead a reader, and ABA Model Rule 7.1, which every state's rules echo in some form, bars misleading statements about a lawyer's services. We write "I" or "we" as your practice really is.
Listing every kind of law to catch every call makes a solo look like a generalist and fills your voicemail with matters you'll refer out. A short list, with a section for each, reads as a practice that knows its work.
An open form with no note invites a stranger to send their whole story before you've checked for conflicts. Ours asks for contact details and the practice area, with a line that sending it creates no attorney-client relationship, or the button opens your intake tool instead.
An old phone number, a missing bar admission or last year's hours tell a visitor the practice may be gone too. The care plan's small edits keep the site current from a short email.
Three steps, and most of the work is ours.
The short form, or a chat with the team. Send photos, your logo, your menu: whatever you have.
Screenshots for computer and phone and a private preview link (2 to 3 business days with priority, overnight with rush). Ask for changes in plain words until it's right.
Pay the fixed launch fee only when you're happy. With the care plan, we put the site live on your domain and look after it; without it, we hand you the files to host yourself.
One fee, paid once when you launch, from $499. Choose by how many pages your site needs, or ask for a custom quote.
A shop, café, trade or practice that needs the essentials done really well.
$499
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteRecommended
A growing business with more services, more locations or more to say.
$999
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteEverything in Website, plus:
A larger firm, a group or a launch that has to be exactly right.
$2,000
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteEverything in Pro, plus:
Bigger sites, several locations or brands, or special features.
Let's talk
a fixed quote from our team
Get a custom quoteEverything in Signature, plus:
See your site before you pay anything. No card needed to start.
No hourly rates and no surprise invoices: anything extra is on our price list and agreed first.
Once it's paid for, the site and its files are yours, and a domain we register is in your name. Let us host it, or take it anywhere.
Most solo attorneys choose the Website launch: $499 once for up to 5 pages, paid only after you've approved a free first draft. We write the words for every page, on every launch. The optional care plan, $49 a month, covers hosting, your domain, 4 small edits a month and support; without it, we hand you the site's files to host yourself. See every price.
Usually, yes. A referred client still searches your name before calling, and your site is where they check your bar admissions, read how you charge and book a time. It also tells the lawyers who refer to you exactly which matters to send your way.
A do-it-yourself builder works if you have the evenings, but the writing, the disclaimers and every later change stay with you. We write and design each page for your practice, add the wording your state requires that you give us, and with the care plan make the edits, for a fixed fee you pay only once you like the draft.
Most need a home page, a page on the matters you take, an about page with your bar admissions, a page on fees and consultations, and a contact page with your disclaimers. That fits the Website launch. If you want a page for each practice area or each town you serve, up to 15 pages fit the Pro launch.
Yes. The practice page says plainly what you handle, your booking page can ask for the practice area first, and a short note on what you don't take points other callers to the lawyer referral service. Your consultation hours go to matters you can accept.
Page titles that name your practice and your city, your name, address and phone the same everywhere, and a complete Google Business Profile all help, though nobody can promise a position in results. For ongoing work on search and answer engines, add SEO & AEO care to the care plan.
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Tell us about your business and we'll do the rest. Questions first? Email hello@ciderwebsites.com.
You pay only when you launch.
