Websites for law firms in Brisbane
A law firm website has two jobs at once: help someone work out quickly whether you handle their kind of matter, and stay inside the rules on how legal services can be advertised. We build them for firms across Brisbane and South East Queensland: a page for each practice area, a page for each region you actually serve, every page in English and Spanish when your clients speak both, and fast on a phone.
Law firm website design with us costs $2,500 to $4,000 and takes 2 to 4 weeks. After launch, the $79/month care plan keeps the site hosted, secure and up to date, with small changes included.
- Investment
- $2,500 - $4,000
- Timeline
- 2-4 weeks
- Maintenance
- $79/month
What goes into a law firm website
A page for each practice area
Workers compensation and unfair dismissal are different searches by different people. Each practice area gets its own page, so Google can match it to the search and the reader lands on the page about their matter, not on a list of everything.
A page for each region you serve
If you take matters from the Gold Coast or Moreton Bay, a page for each region tells Google and the reader that you do. Only regions where you really work, each with detail that belongs to that region.
Every page in your clients' languages
When a real share of your clients speak Spanish, the whole site exists in both languages, with a language switch on every page and the tags that tell Google which version to show to whom.
Advertising rules built into the pages
You tell us which pages carry restrictions, such as personal injury pages under Queensland's PIPA, and the templates apply them every time, without anyone having to remember.
An enquiry form that asks the right things
It asks what the firm needs to know to see whether the matter is one it handles, says what happens with the details, and links to your privacy policy. If the email ever fails, the person sees your phone number instead of a thank-you that went nowhere.
Fast on a phone
Most people looking for a lawyer search on their phone, so pages load quickly on mobile data and nothing jumps around while they do.
How much does a law firm website cost?
With us, $2,500 to $4,000. Where it lands depends mostly on the number of pages and languages: a sole practitioner with three practice areas in English sits near $2,500, and a firm with up to ten pages in English and Spanish sits near $4,000. Bigger sites we quote in writing after the first call. The website cost guide compares those numbers with DIY builders, freelancers and agencies.
Then there's the monthly side. Hosting, SSL, updates, backups and small changes are $79 a month on the care plan, which includes 2 hours of changes each month.
What pages does a law firm website need?
One for each practice area, one for each region you genuinely serve, and the pages people check before they get in touch: who the lawyers are, how to reach you, and your privacy policy. The practice area pages do most of the work in search, because people search for their problem ("unfair dismissal lawyer Brisbane"), not for a firm's name.
Flexi Legal, a Brisbane compensation and employment law firm, is the example we know best. Their site has six service pages, four in compensation law and two in employment law, and five region pages: Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay, and Logan & Ipswich. Each region page lists the suburbs it covers and has its own questions and answers, and every one of those pages exists in English and Spanish.
Should a law firm have a page for every suburb?
No. A page that swaps one suburb name for another in the same text is what Google calls a doorway page, and it can drag down the rest of the site. For a law firm, a region earns a page when you really work there: clients come to you from that area, you know the offices and services that matter to them, and you have something to say that wouldn't be true of the next region over. That's why Flexi's site has five region pages, not fifty suburb pages.
How do Queensland's advertising rules shape a law firm website?
If you act in personal injury matters, Queensland's Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 (PIPA) restricts how those services can be advertised, and other areas of law follow the general rules for solicitors. We're web developers, not lawyers, so we don't tell you what the rules mean for your practice. You tell us the rules your firm follows, and we build them into the site so they're applied on every page, every time.
In practice, each page knows which rulebook it belongs to. Personal injury pages carry factual information about the area of law and how to contact the firm, and the templates leave out review widgets, testimonials and outcome figures on those pages, so a later edit can't add them by accident. The structured data Google reads follows the same rules, with no review markup.
Should a law firm website be bilingual?
If a real share of your clients would rather read about their situation in another language, yes, and it should be the whole site, not one translated page. Someone who arrives in Spanish should be able to read every practice area, every region and the contact page in Spanish, switch language on any page, and land on the Spanish version straight from Google.
Flexi Legal's site works that way in English and Spanish. The firm reviews the Spanish, and a shared glossary keeps each legal term translated the same way on every page. In law, the difference between two words can matter.
How fast should a law firm website be?
Fast enough that a phone on mobile data shows the page within a couple of seconds. Google measures this with its Core Web Vitals and uses them in ranking, and people leave pages that are slow to appear. We test every page on Google's mobile PageSpeed test before launch and aim for 90 or above, the same bar we hold this site to.
What usually slows a legal site down is what gets added later: chat widgets, tracking scripts, sliders and large photos. Each one has to earn its place.
Where does AI fit for a law firm?
Usually not on the website itself. Where it helps is in the work around the site: posts, flyers and ads that have to follow the same advertising rules as the pages. Flexi Legal uses a Claude Code agent we built for that. It knows the firm's brand and its two rulebooks, the strict one for compensation law and the standard one for employment law, and checks each piece against the right one before anything goes out.
It prepares, and a lawyer still approves what gets published.
How long does it take, and what do you need from the firm?
2 to 4 weeks from the first call to launch. Content decides most of that, so it helps to have this ready: your practice areas, the regions you serve, the lawyers' names, roles and admission details, the advertising rules your firm follows, and who will check the second language.
You review every page before it goes live, and every legal statement on the site comes from the firm. If you already have a site, we move the domain and redirect the old pages to the new ones, so the Google traffic it earned doesn't disappear on launch day.
Law firm websites we've built
When we're not the right fit
- You want the site to lead with settlement figures, success rates or client stories on personal injury pages. We won't build that, and in Queensland it's the kind of advertising PIPA restricts.
- You need a client portal, document upload or matter intake connected to your practice management software. That's custom software, from $3,000.
- You want someone to run Google Ads or a full marketing retainer. We build the site and look after local SEO, not ad campaigns.
Questions people ask
How much does a law firm website cost in Australia?
DIY builders cost $20 to $60 a month, freelancers usually charge $1,000 to $3,000 and agencies start around $5,000. With us a law firm website is $2,500 to $4,000, depending on the number of pages and languages, plus $79 a month for hosting, updates and small changes.
How long does it take to build a law firm website?
2 to 4 weeks from the first call to launch, depending mostly on how quickly the content and the firm's review of it come back.
Do you write the legal content?
We plan the pages, write the plain-language parts and edit everything for search. The firm provides or approves every legal statement, and nothing about the law goes live without a lawyer from the firm signing it off.
Can a law firm website show client reviews in Queensland?
It depends on the practice area, and that's a call for your firm, not for us. If you do personal injury work, PIPA restricts how those services can be advertised, so we build the site so reviews and testimonials can only appear on the pages you approve them for.
Do you build law firm websites in Spanish?
Yes. We build in English and Spanish, and the Spanish is written for the reader, not machine-translated. The firm checks the legal terms before anything goes live.
Will my law firm show up on Google Maps?
The map results come from your Google Business Profile, not from the website. The website supports it: the profile links to the site, and both show the same name, address and phone number. Looking after the profile every month is what our local SEO service does.
Can we update the website ourselves?
Most firms ask us instead: the care plan includes 2 hours of changes a month. If you'd rather edit some pages yourselves, tell us at the start and we'll build that in.
Do you work with law firms outside Brisbane?
Yes. We work across greater Brisbane and South East Queensland, from the Sunshine Coast to the Gold Coast, and most of a project runs over video calls and messages. We reply to every enquiry within 24 hours.
Want a website built for how a law firm works?
Book a 20-minute call. Tell us your practice areas, the regions you serve and the languages your clients speak, and we'll come back with a written proposal: scope, cost and launch date.
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