Law firm web design Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fort Lauderdale Law Firm
Web Design.
Intake first websites for Fort Lauderdale law firms, built for the Broward County market mix of personal injury, business litigation, criminal defense, and family practice. Florida Bar 4-7 reviewed, AI Overview ready, on WordPress hosted in your own account.
The pattern Fort Lauderdale firm sites repeat that costs cases.
Across Fort Lauderdale firm sites I review, three issues turn up again and again. Each one drains signed cases monthly, hidden from the owner because the tracking stops short of the retainer.
Generic restaurant or contractor template with lawyer copy stamped on top. Calls to action are wrong, practice page structure is wrong, and the trust cues a legal client scans for never appear. The firm sees an acceptable site because the firm is not the one making the hiring decision.
Form submissions get counted, calls do not. There is no way to tell which page produced which which page actually produced the case, so the firm cannot tell what is working and ends up paying for traffic that converts at half the rate of their best page. The data layer ends where the real money decisions begin.
Broward firms compete against billboard PI shops spending $50K a month on outdoor and broadcast. The website most firms inherited was designed for a market that does not exist here. The page never argues why a Fort Lauderdale prospective client would skip past the billboards and call a smaller firm instead, which is the only argument that actually moves the needle in this market.
A web design system
built for law firms.
Four pillars hold up every Fort Lauderdale build. They live in the architecture itself, decided before wireframing starts, not added as features later.
Intake first layouts.
Phone, form, and chat sit above the fold on every page, sized so a thumb actually hits them. Bilingual prompts only appear if the practice calls for them. The site architecture treats first contact speed as the primary metric, not the length of the scroll experience.
Local SEO for Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale plus Broward County location pages, Google Business Profile integration, embedded maps, and consistent NAP blocks across every page. The architecture tells Google exactly where the firm operates and which neighborhoods it actually serves. For firms ready to layer ongoing rankings work on top of the build, the the standalone SEO service runs separately on a monthly retainer.
Practice area funnels.
PI, business litigation, criminal defense, and family practice get separate funnels with different CTAs and proof assets. A car accident visitor sees a different page structure than a divorce client. The page does the qualification work the intake desk used to handle. The structural pattern itself is documented in practice page structure that AI search picks up.
Compliance and tracking.
Florida Bar 4-7 advertising rules baked into the template structure so the firm does not have to police every page, including the often missed the office address requirement many firms skip that trip up virtual office setups. GA4, call tracking, and form tracking wired in from day one. Every signed case traces back to the page that produced it.
A decade as a paralegal,
before any of this got sold as a service.
Ten years inside Percy Martinez P.A. as a paralegal, handling medical malpractice intake calls and watching matters develop from first call to signed retainer. That is more on the operator behind it.
When the math fails, I tell the firm before we start. The person responsible for the build is the same person who answers when it needs an update.
— Jorge Argota
What is included
in your project.
Every Fort Lauderdale build ships with five components grouped by outcome. Two pull conversion lift directly. Three handle the compliance, technical work, and AI search readiness that determine the site’s lifespan.
Fort Lauderdale plus dedicated pages for Las Olas, Victoria Park, Coral Ridge, Plantation, Hollywood, Davie, Pompano Beach, and the rest of Broward. Each page mapped to local court filings, local case patterns, and the specific search behavior of that neighborhood. The architecture covers the long tail before competitors do.
Every practice area gets a dedicated page built around the structure that actually converts: problem, process, proof, contact. PI, business litigation, criminal defense, and family practice each get their own funnel, not a single template recycled across practices that converts none of them well.
Schema for LegalService, Attorney, FAQPage, and BreadcrumbList ships configured at launch. Core Web Vitals tuned, mobile first rendering, page speed handled before the firm sees the staging link. Ranking ability is built in, not added later.
Copy compliant with Florida Bar Rules 4-7.11 through 4-7.22 across the entire site. Superlatives removed, testimonial disclaimers in place, office address disclosed, past result frameworks structured correctly. No after launch rewrite cycle from bar counsel.
FAQPage schema, direct answer formatting, named attorney attribution, structured content blocks. Your site is built to be cited inside Google AI Overview results and ChatGPT lawyer recommendations from launch day, not bolted on as an upsell six months later.
Clear pricing,
clear timeline.
Three tiers, prices and timelines on the page. No “contact us” routine to get a number, no scope creep during the project. Care plans and ongoing SEO are separate, priced per actual need after launch.
- 8 to 12 page website
- English only
- 1 to 2 practice areas
- Basic schema + SEO
- WordPress on your hosting
Best for: Independent Fort Lauderdale lawyers running a single practice in PI or family law.
Launched in 4 to 6 weeks
- 15 to 25 page website
- 3 to 4 practice areas
- Practice specific funnels
- Broward neighborhood landing pages
- Full schema + CRO
Best for: Small Fort Lauderdale firms running PI plus business or family with 3 to 4 practice areas.
Launched in 8 to 10 weeks
- 30 to 50 page website
- 5 plus practice areas
- Programmatic Broward and Palm Beach pages
- Multi attorney bio architecture
- Custom design + branding
Best for: Mid size Fort Lauderdale firms with 5 plus practice areas competing in the Broward billboard market.
Launched in 10 to 14 weeks
Optional care plans, $150 to $500 per month after launch, handle managed hosting, security monitoring, weekly backups, plugin updates, and minor content changes. Or self host, the firm owns the site and the hosting either way. Ranking work after launch runs separately at $2,500+ monthly.
Before
you book.
Anything else not covered? Reach me at 941 626 9198. I take most calls myself.
Builds run $5,000 to $25,000 across three tiers. Essentials at $5K to $8K covers solo English only practices. Growth at $8K to $15K is the typical fit for a Fort Lauderdale firm running 3 to 4 practice areas across PI, business, criminal, or family practice. Custom at $15K to $25K covers larger multi practice operations with neighborhood landing pages. The pricing reasoning is broken down further in how website pricing actually breaks down.
Essentials launches at 4 to 6 weeks. Growth at 8 to 10. Custom at 10 to 14. Variable is practice area count plus how fast the firm turns around attorney photos, case results, and copy approvals during design. The phase that determines whether the site converts is also the phase that takes the longest.
The build ships with technical SEO foundation included: schema markup, mobile speed, local SEO architecture, and Google Business Profile integration. Ongoing SEO to actively rank the site after launch is a separate $2,500 plus monthly engagement, because that is content production and link building work that runs continuously rather than wrapping up at launch. For the comparison between organic and paid lead acquisition, see the SEO versus PPC return comparison.
Yes, this is one of the most common projects we run. Migration includes URL structure preservation with 301 redirects, schema rebuild, and SEO equity protection through every step. Done correctly, a redesign retains rankings instead of losing them. We rehearse the launch before running it. The full the full web design service hub page covers the build framework end to end.
Yes, content production is included in every tier. English copy is written by Argota Marketing. Spanish copy is written by Jorge personally, who is Cuban-American and bilingual since childhood. Florida Bar 4-7 compliance review runs on every line of copy before publish, including testimonial format, office disclosure, and past result framing. The full ruleset is broken down in Florida Bar advertising ethics in detail.
Start the Fort Lauderdale
website conversation.
Three short ways to start the conversation. Pick the one that matches where you are. Best fit if your firm is in Fort Lauderdale, Plantation, Hollywood, Pompano Beach, or anywhere across Broward County, with a website budget starting at $5,000.
- 15 minute audit. A short call walking through the current site together, with three concrete case leak issues identified before we hang up. Free. No follow up sales call.
- Free wireframe redesign. A homepage redesign sketch showing the difference between the current layout and an intake first version. Delivered in 5 business days. No commitment.
- Strategy call. A 30 minute phone call with me, talking through the firm’s actual situation before any commitment from either side. The build runs through me directly, no junior account manager downstream.
15 min audit FL Bar 4-7 reviewed No bundles Free wireframe