Web Design for Law Firms
Sector · Law firms
Law firm websites from Offenbach: organised by practice area, with profile pages that hold up, fixed price from €1,250 — and very little time required from the lawyers.
Principle
Fixed price before the project starts, no subscription, no lock-in. Domain, hosting and every login are held by the firm, not by us.
(Law firms)
In a law firm a website project rarely fails on budget. It fails because the hours it would take are billable hours. The draft sits unread in an inbox for three weeks because a deadline intervened, and then the review starts over. So anyone thinking of commissioning a website for their firm should ask first how much lawyer time the project actually consumes.
This page answers exactly that. It does not set out what belongs on a law firm website; it sets out how we build one: which approvals we need and from whom, how practice areas, titles and career details reach the page without a correction round, how we handle confidentiality while we work, what it costs, and what your office staff can change afterwards without us.
What a firm may say publicly is framed by BRAO and BORA and is stricter than ordinary advertising, so we deliberately choose conservative wording and put it to you for approval, because permissibility is your call — you know your professional conduct rules far better than we do. What clients search for and what belongs on the page is covered at length in our article on law firm websites.
What we deliver
What you get from us — and in what order.
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Organised by practice area, not by firm history
We build the structure around the areas you want to work in from here on: one address per area, its own heading, its own route to getting in touch. Founding year, partnership history and premises move further down, because they answer no question anyone with a running deadline is asking. You get this in the first week of the project as a plain list of future page addresses. You strike what you do not want and add what is missing. That single approval takes about twenty minutes and settles the scope for good.
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Profiles that carry titles and career details exactly
With us a personal profile is not running prose but a set of fixed fields: name, year of admission, specialist title in precisely the wording the bar association awarded, areas of focus, languages, publications with medium and year. We take your details across unchanged, abbreviate nothing and make nothing sound better than it was supplied. An empty field stays empty rather than being filled with a phrase. It sounds pedantic, and it is the reason there is nothing to correct at sign-off — the part that otherwise consumes the most partner time.
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A short path to a first consultation
A first contact needs three things: name, how to reach you, what it is about. A dropdown for the practice area, an address line or a field for a file reference belong in the file, not in the first step — every extra required field costs enquiries you never get to see. Alongside it we put the phone number as a tappable link in the header of every page, with the hours it is answered and a call-back commitment we agree with your office staff beforehand. Online booking goes in as well on request.
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Content you change yourself when people join or leave
Staff move on in law firms, and a profile still online six months after someone left is noticed by clients. So we set people, practice areas and consultation hours up as separate, reusable records: a new colleague is entered once and then appears automatically in the overview, under the areas assigned to her and in the footer. Nobody has to update five pages by hand or call us. The same holds for opening hours and for the mandatory disclosures, whose extent you determine and which we keep linked from every page.
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Servers in Germany and a contact route that fits confidentiality
Form messages do not travel through an overseas service; they go via a server in Germany straight into a mailbox belonging to the firm, and hosting and backups are in Germany too. Fonts are served from our own server. Maps, analytics and chat tools go in only if you expressly want them, and then sparingly and only after consent. Beside the form sits a brief line saying details of a case are better not sent this way. The processing agreement and a list of every service in use come to you in writing, without your having to ask.
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A handover that lets office staff publish
What ends the project is not a training session for partners but a walkthrough for the person who will actually do it — usually the office manager or a paralegal. Three quarters of an hour, recorded on request, plus a short illustrated guide to the three most common tasks: add a profile, change some text, publish a post. Logins, domain and hosting are held by the firm. If you do not want ongoing care, or cancel it later, the website carries on and any WordPress developer can take it over. That is precisely where dependency either forms or does not.
Honestly
The instruction usually arrives through a referral, not through the website.
At most firms the first contact does not come from a search but from a referral, a colleague passing work on, a legal expenses insurer or a directory listing. The website is opened afterwards — with a name already in mind and one question: does the referral hold up? Its job at that point is to confirm a decision, not to produce one. That is a different job, and it needs fewer pages.
Which leads to something that argues against our own offering: a firm with referrals working well often needs a smaller, quieter website than it assumes. Five careful pages that load fast and carry the right details precisely will do more in that situation than twenty. The larger scope only pays off when you want to build up an area deliberately — one where nobody refers you today.
So the first thing we ask at the initial call is where your last ten instructions came from. If the answer is mostly "referral", we point you at the smaller package, and we say so before a quote is written. Keeping a complete Google Business Profile and clean directory listings costs you nothing and works faster in that situation than any additional page.
Working together
How a law firm project runs.
Built around spending as little lawyer time as possible: two meetings, one bundled round of approval, everything else through a named contact in the office.
Step 01
First call & structure
Free, by phone or video, usually half an hour. We settle which three to five areas the site should carry, who signs off, and how a first contact runs at your firm. After that you know the price and the timeline, and you receive the list of future page addresses for approval.
Step 02
Content without partner time
We write the drafts. What comes from you is bullet points per area and the profile details, usually collected by your office staff. Substantive corrections run in a single bundled round, so nobody spends weeks answering individual queries by email.
Step 03
Build, sign-off & handover
Built in WordPress, tested on real devices, signed off together in about an hour. Then the switchover, including redirects for every previous address, and the walkthrough for whoever will maintain the site.
Prices
What a law firm website costs.
Fixed prices, in the quote before the project starts. A sole practitioner with two or three areas of focus fits the Standard package; once several lawyers need their own profiles and several areas need their own pages, Pro is the right scope.
| Package | Price | Scope | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | €1,250 | Up to 5 pages | 2–4 weeks |
| Pro | €2,100 | Up to 10 pages + blog | 4–6 weeks |
| Enterprise | Individual | Large partnerships, a second language, custom features | By arrangement |
Ongoing care — updates, backups, security — is billed individually. What makes sense in your case is something we settle in the free first consultation.
FAQ · Law firms
Common questions.
What firms ask before commissioning — answered honestly, including when the answer argues against a project.
All questions & answersAsk directly
Your dedicated contact
No call centre, no hold queue — you speak directly with the person building your website.
Three to four hours spread across the whole project: a half-hour first call, approving the page structure, bullet points on the practice areas, and a sign-off meeting of about an hour. Everything else — gathering profile details, photographs, queries, scheduling — runs through one contact in the office. We deliberately bundle questions rather than asking them one at a time.
Exactly one person, and it is the single most important thing the project settles. Substantive text is of course the responsibility of the lawyer concerned, but structure, design and schedule need one voice. If three partners comment independently, the timeline doubles — not because of the changes but because of the coordination between them. We record this in the quote.
Yes. Every profile is its own record: create it, fill in the fields, upload a photo, publish. The entry then appears automatically in the team overview and under the practice areas assigned to it; the same applies in reverse when someone leaves. After the walkthrough it takes a few minutes, and it is one of the reasons we work with WordPress.
No, and we do not want it. We work solely with material that is going to be published anyway: profile details, descriptions of the practice areas, photographs, mandatory disclosures. We need no access to your practice management system, your mailboxes or your files. For the technical logins we genuinely need you receive a written list and a data processing agreement; after handover we remove our own access on request.
Advisable, but not a condition. A single session with a photographer covers the people and the rooms and carries the site for years. If time or budget is missing, we build deliberately without imagery and work with typography, white space and clear structure. What we will not use are gavels, blindfolded figures of justice and boardroom handshakes from a stock library: the same shots sit on hundreds of other firms’ sites and make yours interchangeable. More on that in our article on law firm websites.
Standard €1,250 — up to five pages, finished in two to four weeks. Pro €2,100 — up to ten pages with a blog, four to six weeks. A sole practitioner usually manages with Standard; a partnership with several profiles and areas lands at Pro. Anything larger is quoted individually. The price is in the quote before the project begins; there are no hourly rates and no add-ons.
No — we cannot do that, and it would not be honest to pretend otherwise. We write factually from the outset, without superlatives and without wording that implies an outcome, and we put every sentence to you for approval. Whether we may put it that way is ultimately decided by you or your bar association. Where we are unsure we ask rather than writing on a guess.
We do not promise rankings, and anyone who does should make you suspicious. We build the foundations: a page per area with a local reference, clean headings and metadata, short load times and the link to your Google Business Profile. What follows from that you can see for yourself in Google Search Console — we set up your access and explain it briefly.
The website and its backups sit on servers in Germany. Form messages go straight into a mailbox belonging to the firm, with no caching at a third party. Maps, analytics or chat tools are added only on your express decision — and then in a way that obtains consent first.
If the structure and text hold up and only the styling looks dated, a revision is usually the cheaper route. Three findings argue for a rebuild: the site is slow on a phone, it cannot be changed without an agency, or the practice areas and people are not separately findable. We tell you which case applies at the first call — including when the answer argues against a project.
Two to four weeks at Standard scope, four to six at Pro, counted from the day the structure and profile details are approved. Technology is rarely the bottleneck; a law firm project is almost always delayed by feedback that gets stranded between hearings and deadlines. So we fix two approval dates at the outset instead of leaving an open window.
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