A focused law firm website commonly requires 80-160 hours, roughly $4,000-$8,000 at Vertinus's $49.99 hourly rate. A larger site with several practice areas, attorneys, offices, representative experience, resources, recruiting, intake routing, and migration may take 160-350 hours, about $8,000-$17,500. A broad publishing, professional-directory, multilingual, or portal-connected site may require 400-900 hours or more, about $20,000-$45,000.

The site should help a prospective client understand whether the firm handles the matter, why its people may be credible, where and for whom it practices, what the next step is, and what the website cannot safely promise. Clear practice descriptions, attorney evidence, accessible contact paths, and careful intake boundaries matter more than decorative claims.

Planning range: $4,000-$8,000 for a focused law firm website; $8,000-$17,500 for a larger multi-practice or multi-office site; $20,000-$45,000+ for a broad publishing, directory, multilingual, or portal-connected platform. Legal content review, writing, photography, translation, CRM, secure intake, hosting, and ongoing care are separate when required.

Focused law firm website: 80-160 hours

A responsible first release may include:

  • A home page with the firm's work, audience, locations, and next step.
  • Four to eight practice-area pages using firm-approved content.
  • Attorney or professional biographies with reviewed credentials.
  • About, approach, office, contact, and accessibility information.
  • Representative matters, publications, testimonials, or other proof approved for use.
  • A limited inquiry form with confidentiality and emergency boundaries supplied by the firm.
  • Links to established scheduling, payment, or client-portal products where appropriate.
  • Search-friendly titles, descriptions, headings, internal links, and structured data.
  • Analytics configured around meaningful actions and approved privacy boundaries.
  • Responsive, accessibility, performance, form, and launch testing.
  • Domain, code, content, and ownership handoff.

Larger multi-practice or multi-office website: 160-350 hours

Cost grows with several practice groups, industries, jurisdictions, offices, professionals, languages, detailed biographies, representative experience, publications, events, news, recruiting, media, inquiry routing, CRM integration, and migration from years of content.

A structured content model can connect attorneys, practices, offices, industries, publications, and approved experience without copying the same information into many pages.

Broad law firm web platform: 400-900 hours or more

A broad scope may include hundreds of professionals and resources, advanced search, several brands or languages, local publishing permissions, approval workflow, external biography data, subscriptions, events, secure intake, authenticated client resources, and complex migration.

Professional advertising, licensing, jurisdiction, confidentiality, privilege, prospective-client duties, conflicts, testimonials, results, claims, accessibility, privacy, records, and regulated communication must be reviewed by qualified counsel and authorized firm leaders. Website implementation is not legal compliance advice.

What changes the estimate

Practice content and review

Approved service summaries are simpler than interviews, legal writing, several audiences, jurisdiction differences, urgent scenarios, claims, disclaimers, citations, frequent updates, and review by several partners or counsel.

Professionals and experience

A few static biographies are narrower than a searchable directory, credentials, admissions, education, languages, offices, practices, representative work, publications, media, headshots, permissions, and structured updates.

Inquiry and confidential intake

A limited contact form delivered to one monitored team is simpler than practice and office routing, conflict information, scheduling, sensitive narratives, large files, identity, CRM matching, consent, access controls, retention, and visible delivery failures.

Migration and search continuity

A new small site is narrower than years of articles, attorney URLs, PDFs, events, redirects, duplicate topics, broken media, backlinks, retired professionals, outdated claims, analytics, and preserving valuable search paths.

Example: 10-attorney regional firm

A firm needs a home page, six practice pages, 10 biographies, two office pages, about and contact pages, selected approved experience, an insights index, a limited inquiry form, analytics, and migration from a small existing site.

  • Discovery, audiences, content inventory, review path, sitemap, and wireframes: 20-35 hours.
  • Visual system, responsive components, practice, attorney, and office templates: 25-45 hours.
  • Approved-content assembly, biographies, experience, insights, and migration: 30-55 hours.
  • Inquiry form, routing, analytics, privacy boundaries, and failure testing: 14-28 hours.
  • Search foundations, redirects, performance, and accessibility: 22-40 hours.
  • Legal review coordination, cross-browser QA, launch, and handoff: 16-28 hours.

Total planning range: 127-231 hours, about $6,350-$11,550 at $49.99 per hour, plus writing, photography, CRM, secure intake, hosting, and qualified legal-review services.

How to reduce law firm website cost

  • Choose the practices, clients, and locations the first site must support.
  • Assign one content decision-maker and a legal review path.
  • Gather approved biographies, credentials, experience, images, and permissions.
  • Use a small reusable model for people, practices, offices, and insights.
  • Keep public inquiry limited and move sensitive work to an appropriate system.
  • Migrate content that still supports a client decision; archive the rest deliberately.
  • Measure qualified inquiries rather than traffic alone.

Compare the broader guide to professional-services website costs, the project boundary for secure website file uploads, and the planning guide for website accessibility basics.

How Vertinus estimates law firm websites

Vertinus charges $49.99 per hour for time actually worked up to the approved estimate. The written scope identifies audiences, practices, professionals, offices, content and legal-review responsibilities, proof, inquiry boundaries, integrations, migration, redirects, testing, acceptance, estimated hours, exclusions, and recurring providers.

After final payment, the client owns the completed code, interface, project-specific deliverables, and domain. Third-party assets and services retain their own licenses. Optional Managed Website Care is $50 per month.

Send Vertinus your practices, ideal clients, attorneys, offices, approved proof, current website, and inquiry path. We will turn them into a written law firm website scope and hour estimate with clear public-intake boundaries.