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People hire lawyers when something has gone wrong. Your site has to project competence and calm immediately — credentials, results, and a human face — before a visitor talks themselves out of calling.
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Websites For
Law Firms.
Prospective clients judge a firm in seconds — usually during the worst week of their life. If your site looks dated or buries the one thing they need, they hit back and call the next name on the list.
Rough Works is a law firm website design studio. We handle attorney website design and legal website redesign for practices that need a site that reads credible, loads fast, and turns anxious visitors into booked consultations — with clear practice-area architecture, frictionless intake, and the discretion the work demands.
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Featured Case Study
How we rebuilt Maurice Law's digital presence.
Maurice Law is one of Canada's first and largest Indigenous-owned national law firms, serving First Nations and clients across the country. They came to us to bring their digital presence up to the standard of their practice.
We rebuilt the site around clarity and credibility — practice areas, attorney bios, and insights structured so a prospective client understands the firm's depth before they ever pick up the phone.
Challenges We Solve
What Law Firm Website Design Actually Needs
Make Intake Effortless
Every extra click between a worried prospect and a conversation is a lost client. We build intake that's fast, confidential, and routed to the right person — forms, click-to-call, and scheduling that actually work on a phone.
Organize Many Practice Areas
Family, corporate, real estate, litigation — each speaks to a different client with different stakes. We build architecture that lets every practice area stand on its own without fracturing the firm's brand.
Stay On the Right Side of Compliance
Law-society advertising rules, accessibility, client confidentiality. We build sites that respect the regulations your marketing has to live inside — without sounding like a disclaimer.
Live Work
Built to Move, Not Just Sit There
Real screens from a law-firm site we shipped — considered, fast, and alive on every device.
Maurice Law — designed & built by Rough Works.
How We Build For Law Firms
Credibility by Design
Typography, restraint, and proof — bios, case results, recognitions — arranged so a first-time visitor believes you can handle their matter before they read a word of copy.
Intake That Converts
Consultation requests, click-to-call, secure contact, and calendar booking — instrumented so you can see which practice areas and campaigns actually produce signed clients.
Practice-Area Architecture
A scalable system of practice and sub-practice pages, each tuned for the searches real clients type, so the firm ranks for the work it actually wants more of.
Discreet & Secure
SSL, secure forms, privacy-first analytics, and careful handling of anything that touches client information — the standard of care your clients assume you already meet.
Local & Practice SEO
Google Business Profile, local schema, and content built around the questions clients ask before they hire — the foundation that brings qualified matters in month after month.
Brand That Holds Up
A real brand system — type, voice, components — so every attorney bio, practice page, and article feels like one firm, on every device.
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No pitch — just a quick look at whether we're the right studio for your firm's website. Pick a time that works.
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Leave your email and your firm's current site — we'll send back a short, no-obligation take on what we'd improve.
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Our Tech Stack For Legal Practices
WordPress when the firm needs to publish insights and update bios without a developer. Webflow when design polish and editor control both matter. Custom Next.js or Astro when performance and integrations — intake CRMs, e-signature, scheduling — demand it. Secure forms that route straight to the people who close.
Firms We Work With
- Full-service and boutique law firms
- Litigation and trial practices
- Family and estate law practices
- Corporate, commercial, and M&A firms
- Real estate and conveyancing practices
- Immigration and personal injury firms
- Solo practitioners and new partnerships
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does a law firm website take to build?
Most firm sites launch in 5–9 weeks. Multi-practice firms with deep attorney rosters, blogs, and intake integrations run 9–14 weeks. We set a realistic timeline in week one — and the intake that earns consultations goes live first.
Do you work with law firms outside Canada?
Yes. We're based in Vancouver, BC and build for firms across North America. Engagements run remotely with sync-ups in your time zone.
Can you make our site compliant with law-society advertising rules?
We build with those rules in mind — testimonials, results, and comparative claims handled the way your regulator expects — and we work alongside your compliance lead so the site is persuasive without crossing a line.
Will the new site keep our search rankings?
Yes — we run a content and redirect audit before launch, preserve URL structures where we can, set 301s for the rest, and submit fresh sitemaps. Most firms hold or improve rankings after a migration with us.
Do you set up client intake and scheduling?
That's a core part of every legal build — confidential intake forms, click-to-call, and calendar booking, wired so the right matter reaches the right attorney and you can measure what actually converts.
What does a law firm website design project cost?
Legal builds start at $3,500 flat for a focused single-practice site and rise with the number of practice areas, attorney profiles, and intake integrations. You get a fixed number before we start — no hourly billing and no retainer afterwards. You can get an instant range in about a minute without talking to anyone.
Is this a redesign of our existing site, or a rebuild from scratch?
Both are normal. A legal website redesign keeps what already works — your content, your rankings, often your brand — and replaces the parts that don't. A rebuild starts clean when the foundation can't be saved. We won't guess which one you need: the free 48-hour audit shows the evidence first, and sometimes it says repair rather than replace.
Do you only do attorney website design, or other legal work too?
Lawyer website design is the core of it, but legal website design covers more than firms: we also build for litigation boutiques, in-house legal teams, and legal-adjacent practices such as mediators and paralegal firms. If your visitors arrive anxious and need to trust you quickly, the approach is the same.
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