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Codeeo delivers legal consultation booking website development USA operators need when they plan to list attorneys in more than one state. We build the web marketplace where clients find a lawyer licensed for their state and matter, pay for a consultation and book a time, and the admin where attorneys and your staff run profiles, calendars, payouts and disputes. Each state regulates lawyers on its own terms, so the platform treats jurisdiction as a core setting rather than an afterthought.
We build the website and the commerce platform behind it. It runs in any browser, needs no app download, and is designed so you can launch in a single state and switch on others as your attorney panel and your counsel's review reach them.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Platform features
There is no national law license in the US. Each state supreme court, usually through a bar or registration office, admits and disciplines attorneys, and each state adopts its own version of the ABA Model Rules. Most follow the model closely on fee sharing (Rule 5.4), paying for recommendations (Rule 7.2) and client trust money (Rule 1.15), but the details differ, and some states go further. Texas, for example, requires certification for lawyer referral services and limits it to public bodies and nonprofits.
A national platform therefore has to apply different rules depending on where the client is, where the attorney is admitted and which law governs the problem. The features below handle that without forcing you to run a separate site for each state. We select and order them in discovery around your model and the states you open first.
Every attorney profile lists the states of admission, and every booking records the client's state and the governing law of the matter. The engine only offers attorneys who can lawfully advise on that matter, with exceptions for federal practice areas such as immigration, bankruptcy or patents where your counsel allows them.
Clients are never matched with a lawyer who cannot help them.
Staff verify each admission against the official lookup for that state, and the platform stores the source, the date and the result. Renewal cycles differ from state to state, so reverification is scheduled per license, and a lapsed license hides only the states it affects.
An audit trail of licensing for every attorney in every state.
Advertising labels, disclaimers, referral restrictions and engagement letter requirements are stored as state profiles your compliance team can edit. Turning on a new state means reviewing its profile with counsel, not rewriting code. Profiles also control whether that state's bookings run as a directory or through a certified partner.
New states launch through configuration and review.
The US spans several time zones, so availability is stored in the attorney's zone and shown in the client's. Calendar sync covers Outlook and Google, buffers protect court days, and reminders by email and text always state the time in the client's own zone.
Fewer missed calls between Eastern and Pacific clients.
Clients pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay through processor hosted fields, keeping card data out of your systems and reducing PCI DSS scope. Prices are shown in full before payment, with any booking fee itemized up front. The receipt names the attorney as service provider and your company as the platform.
Transparent totals that hold up to consumer protection scrutiny.
Attorneys onboard to connected payout accounts verified by the processor, which also handles Form 1099-K reporting for payouts. Consultation fees settle to the attorney. Retainers go to the attorney's trust account, whatever that state calls it, IOLTA or IOLA, and never through your platform balance.
Client funds and platform revenue never share an account.
Your charge to attorneys is billed as a flat subscription or listing fee, separate from legal fees. Since the Wayfair decision, states can require sales tax from remote sellers that pass economic thresholds, and some states tax software subscriptions. California will tax SaaS and prewritten software from 1 January 2027 under SB 122, with CDTFA rules still being drafted, so the billing engine supports tax by attorney location.
Platform invoices ready for multistate tax rules.
California's CCPA as amended by the CPRA, the Texas TDPSA, and similar laws in other states give residents rights over their data, while breach laws like New York's SHIELD Act set security duties. The platform applies the strictest common baseline: minimal intake, consent for sensitive data, a rights request queue and logged staff access.
One privacy program that covers clients in every launch state.
Only clients who attended a paid consultation can review, and reviews describe service quality rather than case results. Disputes go to a queue with full booking records. Accounts are limited to adults; matters involving children are booked by a parent or guardian, so the platform is not directed at children under COPPA.
Fair moderation and clear account rules for families.
Some operators want AI to summarize intake or suggest a practice area. We keep any such feature behind your review, label it clearly, never let it give legal advice, and keep client text out of model training. ABA Formal Opinion 512 reminds lawyers of their duties of competence and confidentiality when using these tools, and state bars have added their own guidance.
Faster triage without an AI answering legal questions.
Who this is for
National legal booking takes several forms in the US, and the right platform design depends on who earns what. A nonprofit network partnering with local referral services runs very differently from a venture funded marketplace or a firm with offices in a dozen cities. These four are the groups we build for most often, and in each case the first conversation is about money flow and licensing, not about colors or layouts.
Founders building a consumer brand for legal help need a platform that scales across states without breaking ethics rules in any of them. We turn counsel's advice into product logic: mechanical matching, flat attorney fees, labeled sponsorship and state profiles. The result is a marketplace investors can understand and bar regulators can read.
Your counsel sets the rules; the code enforces them consistently.
Plans sold to employers, unions and members need eligibility checks, included consultations, paid extras and attorney networks in many states. Recurring member fees bring state automatic renewal laws into play, such as California's and New York's, so the platform builds clear renewal disclosures and online cancellation into the plan checkout.
Firms with offices in several states can sell first consultations nationally, route each by state of admission and practice group, and send retainers to the right trust account. Because all attorneys belong to one firm, referral rules matter less, and the platform focuses on conflicts, engagement letters and consistent client experience. Partners see bookings, conversion to engagement and revenue by office and state in one dashboard.
Organizations that link local bar referral services under one national front door can let clients search once and book with a panel attorney from the right local service. Each service keeps its own panel and fees, and the platform routes bookings and payments to the correct partner. Reporting shows national demand by state and practice area, which helps partners recruit attorneys where clients are waiting.
Useful in states where referral services must be certified.
How we work
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and holds a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. We work with US clients remotely, by video call. Discovery, design reviews and testing are recorded and summarized in writing, and you see the platform grow on a staging site throughout. Legal consultation booking website design USA founders approve is reviewed by their counsel in staging before any state goes live. When the first state is live, we plan each later state as its own release with its own review.
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
Legal services booking platform development USA projects usually run on Next.js or Laravel with a payment processor that supports connected accounts, a tax engine and US cloud hosting. We document the architecture and hand over every credential so your own team can take it on.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Jurisdiction becomes part of every booking, payment and profile.
A city portal can assume one state's rules. A national platform must know which state each attorney is admitted in, where the client lives and which law governs the problem, then apply the right advertising, referral and trust rules. Tax and privacy obligations also vary by state. We design that logic first, so each new state is a configuration task rather than a new build.
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