Your next client checks your website before they ever call your office.
Law firm web design for solo attorneys and small firms: flat-rate, hand-coded, and owned outright by your firm. No legal-marketing-mill contracts, no retainer lock-in.
Most new clients come to a small firm the same way: a referral, then a Google search, then a snap judgment on your website. We build attorney websites that pass that judgment: fast-loading, credible, accessible, with confidential intake done right and the local SEO that helps searches like “immigration lawyer Aurora IL” find you. Based in Aurora, serving firms across Naperville and Chicago’s western suburbs.
A referral isn’t a client yet. It’s a Google search.
Solo and small-firm practices run on word of mouth, but word of mouth has a checkpoint now. Here’s the sequence that happens dozens of times a month around your practice, whether your website is ready for it or not.
Someone gives out your name.
A past client, a colleague who doesn’t handle your practice area, a friend at church. “Call this attorney. They helped us.” This is the best lead your firm will ever get, and it cost you nothing.
They Google you before they save your number.
Almost nobody calls on a name alone anymore. They search your name, your firm, or “family lawyer near me”, and your website comes up next to your Google reviews and three of your competitors.
Your site answers one question: is this firm still sharp?
They’re not reading your bio yet. They’re reacting to a site that loads instantly and looks current, or to a dated template with a stock gavel photo that hasn’t been touched since it launched. Fair or not, they read the website as a proxy for how you run cases.
They contact you, or the firm one result down.
If the site holds up and the intake form feels safe to use, you get the consultation the referral earned you. If it doesn’t, that warm lead quietly becomes someone else’s client, and you never know it happened.
Your website’s job isn’t to find clients out of thin air. It’s to stop losing the ones your reputation already sends you, and to catch the local searches happening around them.
Wondering what a referral sees when they Google your firm? Ask us for an honest read.
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Most attorney websites come from legal-marketing companies that sell the same template to firm after firm, and structure the deal so you can never leave. Put the two sets of terms side by side and the difference is the kind you’d flag for a client.
The typical legal-marketing agreement
The Hunter Creative terms
Flat-rate law firm web design starts at $750 for a focused single-page site, $1,500 for a multi-page build with individual practice-area pages, and $3,000+ scoped for larger custom projects: every price on the pricing page, in public, before you ever talk to us.
Built around how your practice actually gets clients.
A personal injury site and an estate planning site shouldn’t look or behave the same: the clients arrive differently, in different states of mind, speaking different languages. We design for the practice, not for “law” in the abstract.
Immigration law
Bilingual English/Spanish builds where the Spanish is a first-class version of the site, not a widget translation. Plain-language process pages that calm an anxious family at 11pm, and local SEO tuned for the searches they actually type, in both languages. We’ve built bespoke bilingual editorial work for an immigration practice; see Exhibit A below.
Family law & divorce
People land on these pages during the worst season of their lives, often from a shared device. That calls for discreet, reassuring design, copy that explains without lecturing, and an intake form that feels (and is) private.
Estate planning & probate
A trust-first audience, often older, deciding whether to hand you their family’s affairs. Readable type at real sizes, unhurried layouts, and credibility signals that come from substance, the same discipline behind our Heritage Wealth Solutions rebuild for a trust-and-estates-adjacent financial firm.
Personal injury
The most competitive search landscape in law, and the most mobile: someone searching from a phone, possibly from a hospital waiting room. Speed, a call-first layout, and honest local pages beat a bloated national-template site that takes six seconds to load.
Criminal defense, business & general practice
Whatever the docket looks like, the fundamentals hold: a site that establishes you’re established, pages for each thing you do so Google can match you to each thing people search, and a frictionless path from “found you” to “contacted you.”
Tell us your practice area and what you have now. We’ll quote it flat, in writing.
Request a Quote →Exhibits, not adjectives.
We’d rather show the work than pile on claims. Here’s a build for an immigration practice, and an adjacent professional-services rebuild where trust was the entire brief.
Muñoz Llamosas Law
Portfolio work for an immigration practice: a bespoke editorial design in the practice’s own voice, built bilingual from the ground up (English and Spanish as parallel first-class experiences rather than a machine-translated afterthought).
No shared legal template underneath, no stock gavel in sight: typography, structure, and plain-language process content doing the reassuring.
Heritage Wealth Solutions
Not a law firm, but the same assignment attorneys face: a professional practice whose clients hand over their family’s most sensitive affairs, and a dated site that undersold it. We rebuilt it around credibility and clarity.
Read the full Heritage Wealth case study, or browse all our case studies.
What’s drawn into every law firm build.
These aren’t add-ons or upsells. They’re the baseline specification for any attorney website that leaves this studio.
// TERMS: Quoted in writing before work begins · 90 days of edits included · optional care from $85/mo, month-to-month · you own the domain, the site, and every file.
The questions lawyers ask us first.
Make your website the strongest referral you have.
Tell us about your practice through the contact form, or call (331) 269-6120 and talk it through. You’ll get a flat quote in writing, a firm timeline, and a straight answer on whether your current site is worth keeping. No retainer pitch, no pressure.