Services · Website development · Law firm websites
Codeeo delivers law firm website development Chicago attorneys can put their name to: fast, accessible sites for Loop trial firms, River North boutiques and neighborhood practices from Pilsen to Jefferson Park. We plan the practice pages, attorney biographies, Spanish and Polish content and intake forms that turn a search into a qualified consultation request, and we write every claim with the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct and the ARDC in mind, because a lawyer's website is advertising in the eyes of Illinois regulators.
We work with Chicago firms remotely, holding discovery, design reviews and editor training by video call. The result is a site your office manager or marketing lead can keep current without calling a developer, with enquiries landing in the practice management or intake system you already run. Nothing is locked to us after launch.
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What goes into the site
People looking for a lawyer in Chicago rarely search for a firm name. They search for a problem and a place: a DUI arrest on the Kennedy, a landlord dispute in Rogers Park, a slip and fall at a Michigan Avenue store, a commercial lease in the West Loop. The website has to meet that search with a page that answers the question, shows who will handle it and makes contact easy on a phone.
A custom law firm website development Chicago firms trust also has to respect rules that a generic template ignores. Illinois requires all parties to consent before a private conversation is recorded, so call tracking and chat logs need careful setup. The Biometric Information Privacy Act makes any face or voice feature a liability. Below are the components we usually propose; the final list comes from discovery, and a two attorney practice will need fewer than a forty lawyer firm. Every item is priced and scheduled separately, so you can phase the work.
Each practice area gets a hub, with sub pages written around what a client is facing: wrongful termination, a Section 8 eviction, a Cook County probate filing. Pages explain the process in plain English and point to the attorney who handles that work.
Searchers land on a page that matches their situation, not a list of services.
Bar admissions, ARDC status, courts where the lawyer appears, languages spoken, education and publications, laid out so a referring lawyer or a nervous client can check credentials in seconds. Editors update a bio from one form.
Clients pick a person with confidence, and bios stay accurate.
Chicago has large Spanish and Polish speaking communities, and many firms serve both. We build translated pages for the practice areas where demand is real, with proper hreflang tags and a language switch that keeps the visitor on the equivalent page.
Non English speakers reach the right attorney without a phone tag.
Forms collect the adverse party, matter type, county and urgency, then route to the right team or straight into your intake software. A short notice tells visitors not to send confidential details before an attorney client relationship exists.
Staff screen conflicts before the first call instead of after it.
Tracked numbers show which pages and ads produce calls. Where the firm wants recordings, we set up a disclosure that plays before the conversation begins, since Illinois treats recording a private conversation without everyone's consent as eavesdropping.
Marketing data without a recording practice that creates risk.
Templates for past results include the context the firm decides is needed, testimonials carry consent records, and the name and office address of a responsible lawyer appear sitewide. Specialist language is reviewed against the Illinois limits on claiming certification.
Partners approve marketing copy faster because the guardrails are built in.
Separate pages for a Loop office and, say, an Oak Brook or Schaumburg branch, each with consistent name, address and phone, LegalService structured data and directions from the nearest CTA or Metra stop.
Each location competes in its own map results.
A publishing area for case law updates, Illinois statute changes and practical guides, filtered by topic and author, with email sign up and consent stored in the firm's own platform.
Expertise becomes search traffic and a list the firm owns.
Client reviews pulled from your Google profile with the client's permission, a referral page for other Chicago attorneys explaining which matters you take on co counsel or referral, and a simple form that records who referred the matter so fee arrangements stay transparent.
Referral sources see exactly what you handle and how to send it.
WCAG 2.2 AA design, Core Web Vitals tuned for mobile, a content delivery network, backups, a web application firewall and two factor login for every editor.
A site that loads quickly and keeps client inquiries protected.
Who this is for
A firm defending manufacturers in federal court at the Dirksen building needs a different site from a family law practice on the Northwest Side. Before any design, we ask where your best matters came from last year, which enquiries waste staff time, and how referrals from other Chicago lawyers reach you. The answers decide the navigation, the forms and how much weight sits on attorney bios versus practice content. We also look at how your phones are answered after hours, because a Chicago site that generates calls nobody picks up is a site that costs the firm clients.
Volume matters here, and so does speed of response. We build a site with injury type pages, a mobile first free case review form, click to call on every screen and intake that pushes straight into your case management system. Results pages follow the rules the firm sets on context and disclaimers, and Spanish pages carry the same structure as English ones so no client gets a thinner version.
Fast intake and clear calls to action carry this site.
General counsel and founders want sector knowledge and the right partner, quickly. We focus on industry pages for areas such as logistics, food manufacturing, real estate and financial services, deep attorney bios, and a news section for deal announcements written without revealing client confidences. CRM links let business development see which content precedes a meeting.
Bios and thought leadership do most of the work.
Clients in Little Village, Albany Park or Chatham often call in a crisis and on a phone. They need short pages, a visible phone number, hours, the languages the office speaks and an honest explanation of what happens at a first consultation. We keep the site light and quick so it works on a weak signal.
Clarity and trust beat a long services menu.
When partners leave a larger Chicago firm or two practices combine, the website has to be ready the day the new name goes live. We plan domains, redirects from both old sites, new bios and announcement content in advance, and we handle the ARDC and letterhead details the new firm needs reflected online.
Launch timing is planned around the firm's opening date.
Working together
Most firms start with a fixed scope build agreed after discovery, then keep a monthly plan for new pages, bio changes, technical upkeep and search work. Firms that also want a client portal, a referral tracker or reporting dashboards sometimes take a dedicated developer for a longer stretch. In every case the work runs remotely through video reviews, a shared tracker and written approvals, so the managing partner can see what is waiting for sign off without chasing anyone. When a matter goes to trial or a partner is on leave, approvals simply move to the person the firm names, and the schedule is adjusted in writing rather than by assumption.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We recommend WordPress for firms that want simple editing and a large plugin pool, a headless CMS with Next.js where speed and many editors matter, or Laravel when the site must talk closely to internal systems. We explain the trade offs in plain language before you commit. Whichever route you choose, the code sits in a repository the firm owns, plugins are kept to what the site needs, and updates follow a written maintenance routine so security patches never wait for a crisis.
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Content approval sets the pace more than design or code.
A solo or two lawyer practice with bios and practice copy ready moves quickly. A firm with dozens of attorneys, hundreds of blog posts, Spanish pages and an intake integration takes longer, mainly because partners must review what goes live under their names. After discovery we give you a written schedule that marks every point where firm input is needed, and we pick a launch window away from trial dates and year end billing.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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