We have been building law firm websites
since law firms had websites.
The domains were registered through Network Solutions, because for a while that was the only place you could register anything. Thirty years on, it is still the thing we do most.
Where this started
First the email address. Then the domain. Then the website.
We were carrying computers into Orange County law offices in 1980 — networks, WordPerfect, billing, pleading libraries, phone systems. When the web arrived we did what the firms asked for next: an email address, then a domain, then a site. We built them for doctors too, in those days. Medicine went corporate and the solo physician largely disappeared. Attorneys did not. So it is lawyers now, and it has been for a long time.
That history is the whole reason this page reads differently from the other agency pages you have been sent. We are not learning your business from a template.
What a law firm site has to do
Four jobs. Most sites do two.
Be found
Titles and descriptions written for each page, a clean structure, and the technical settings that decide whether a search engine lists you at all.
Be read
Written in your voice, about the matter in front of the reader — not four hundred words of stock copy about compassion and dedication.
Be trusted
Your name, your photograph, your admissions, your results. A stranger deciding whether to hand you their family’s affairs is looking for a person.
Be reachable
A telephone number that works on a phone, an address that matches your listings, and a form that a frightened person will actually finish.
What we build
The site, and the plumbing underneath it
Design and build. Hosting on United States servers, with backups and malware protection. Search work — titles, descriptions, structure, indexing, schema. Google Business Profiles and the listings that agree with them. Content written here rather than outsourced. Ongoing care, or a single finished job with an end date, whichever suits you.
We take very few firms at a time. That is not a scarcity line, it is arithmetic: the work is done by the people who answer the telephone.
What we find
Every one of these was on a real California law firm’s website this month
None of those firms was careless. Each one paid somebody to build a website and had no way of checking what was delivered. That is the actual problem, and it is why we start by looking rather than by quoting.
How it goes
We look first, and we tell you what we find
Before anything is built or quoted, we go through what is already there and write it down — what a potential client finds when they look for you, what happens when they call, and what is quietly leaking. That is the Digital Snapshot, and you can ask to see a real one before you decide anything.
If the telephone turns out to be the weak point rather than the website, that is a different conversation and we would rather have the right one — see phones and intake. If you run a second office in an adjoining county that nobody seems able to find, that has a name and a fix: the invisible office.
Work is quoted at a fixed price, agreed in advance, with an end date. There is no contract waiting at the end of the year and anyone can stop.
Talk to the person who would do the work
Call the cell. It reaches Keith, not an assistant, and there is nothing to buy at the end of the conversation.
(714) 381-9025 · Office 888-900-9078 · keith@lawsitesdigital.com