Web Design / Law Firm
Law Firm Web Design in San Antonio
TL;DR
- →74% of prospective clients visit a law firm's website before deciding to contact you. Most SA law firm sites lose them in the first 3 seconds.
- →A modern law firm site in 2026 should load in under 2 seconds, have practice-area-specific landing pages instead of one "Services" page, secure intake forms with conflict-check workflow, and schema markup that gets you cited in AI search.
- →Most SA law firms pay $10,000 to $25,000 to legal-specialist agencies (The Modern Firm, AdvantixLaw, FWD Lawyer Marketing, dNOVO Group).
- →ByteSimple builds law firm sites starting at $5,500. No contract, modern stack, TX State Bar-compliant copy, secure intake.
- →Free site audit at the bottom. 5-minute Loom on what's working and what's not.
The situation in San Antonio
San Antonio's legal market is dense. Hundreds of solo practitioners and mid-sized firms, plus the regional offices of bigger firms, all competing for the same Bexar County local searches.
The differentiator is rarely "we have more lawyers." It's the website doing the work between the search and the call.
- •4 to 6 second load times on mobile (kills new client acquisition)
- •Hero photo of an aggressive attorney pointing at the camera, gavel, scales of justice
- •One generic "Practice Areas" page listing 8 specialties in bullet form
- •Intake form that's just a contact form (no conflict-check, no confidentiality language, not over HTTPS)
- •"Free Consultation" CTA that goes to a phone number, not a calendar
- •No real outcome examples (TX Bar rules limit what you can say, but most firms err on the side of nothing)
- •No schema markup, no FAQ structure, no LegalService data
What actually moves a law firm site in 2026
Three things make the difference. The rest is decoration.
1. Speed under 2 seconds on mobile
When someone searches "DUI attorney San Antonio" at 2 AM after an arrest, they want a phone number in under 3 seconds. The slow site loses to the firm that loads first.
ByteSimple builds on Next.js + Sanity. Click-to-call buttons stay above the fold on every practice page.
2. Practice-area-specific landing pages
A prospective client searching "child custody attorney San Antonio" doesn't want to land on a generic family law page. They want a page that addresses child custody specifically: how Texas custody works, what conservatorship means, common parenting plan structures.
Personal injury, family law, criminal defense, estate planning, immigration, business law. Each gets dedicated landing pages, often with sub-practice landing pages too.
A prospective client who sees "we handle child custody specifically, here's what to expect" converts at far higher rates.
3. Secure intake with conflict-check workflow
Most law firm intake forms are just contact forms. Prospective clients are sending privileged information over an unencrypted HTML form to a marketing email inbox.
A modern intake collects identifying information (parties, opposing counsel, court, jurisdiction, basic facts) over a secure HTTPS-only form, runs it through a conflict-check process, and routes urgent matters to same-day callback flow.
Done well, this is the difference between a 1-week intake cycle and a same-day intake cycle.
What ByteSimple builds for a law firm business
A typical law firm project includes:
- ✓Custom design, built on Next.js + Sanity CMS
- ✓12-25 core pages: home, about, attorneys, practice areas (one page per area), case results, FAQ, contact, jurisdiction-specific pages
- ✓Mobile-first, loads in under 2 seconds
- ✓Click-to-call sticky button on mobile
- ✓Secure intake form (HTTPS-only, encrypted, conflict-check workflow built in)
- ✓Calendly or similar consultation booking
- ✓Document upload with secure storage
- ✓LegalService, LocalBusiness, AttorneyAtLaw, Service, FAQPage, Person schema
- ✓Photography session at your firm
- ✓TX State Bar advertising compliance review on all pages
Builds start at $5,500.
Multi-attorney firms, deep practice-area programmatic pages (15+), or document-management integrations push higher. Final pricing depends on scope.
Pay-in-full or 4-payment plan: $2,000 deposit, then 4 monthly payments of $875. No contracts, no lock-in.
Why owner-operated matters for law firm websites
Most marketing agencies in San Antonio are 8 to 30 people. You're handed off between specialists. The copywriter doesn't know TX State Bar advertising rules.
ByteSimple is owner-operated. Danny Tsui builds the site, handles the SEO, and answers your texts. If something breaks before a major court date, you call one person.
- •TX State Bar advertising rules are specific. The person writing copy should know the rules, not learn them from a junior copywriter's revision cycle.
- •Conflict-check intake logic gets built once and has to work right. Hand-offs tend to break the workflow.
- •Privileged information passing through your intake form is a real risk. The person setting up the form encryption is the same person you call if something breaks.
What about AI search?
Prospective clients are starting to ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity for attorney recommendations, especially educational queries ("what is a no-fault divorce in Texas," "how does Bexar County child custody work").
- ✓Conversational content (not jargon-stuffed SEO copy)
- ✓FAQ pages structured for AI to extract clean answers
- ✓Schema markup AI assistants read first
- ✓llms.txt file declaring what crawlers should index
- ✓Attorney credentials, jurisdictions, and licensing displayed on-page
How this compares to what you're paying now
Most San Antonio law firms I've audited are on one of three paths.
Path 1: WordPress treadmill
- •$4,000 to $8,000 (one-time)
- •$200 to $500 a month for hosting, maintenance, plugin licenses
- •5-second load times, generic intake form, no practice-area pages
Total over 24 months: $8,800 to $20,000.
Site still doesn't differentiate from every other firm.
Path 2: Legal-specialist agency (The Modern Firm, AdvantixLaw, FWD Lawyer Marketing)
- •$10,000 to $25,000 (one-time)
- •$500 to $1,500 a month for ongoing services
- •Strong feature set, often locked into proprietary platform
Total over 24 months: $22,000 to $61,000.
Effective and expensive.
Path 3: "Free" website with 12-month SEO contract
- •"Free" custom design
- •$1,500 to $3,500 a month for 12 months of SEO retainer
- •Agency keeps ownership. Cancel and the site goes with them.
Total in year one alone: $18,000 to $42,000.
The ByteSimple build
- ✓$5,500 one-time (or 4-payment plan)
- ✓$20 a month for Vercel hosting, in your name
- ✓$150 to $500 a month for optional ongoing maintenance
- ✓A site you can edit yourself in Sanity
Total over 24 months: $5,980 to $17,980.
Save $2,800 to $55,000+ over 2 years and stop competing with the firm that loaded first.
FAQ
Will you make sure the site is TX State Bar compliant?
Yes. All copy gets reviewed for compliance with TX Bar advertising rules (no superlatives without substantiation, mandatory disclosures, case result framing).
Can you build a secure intake form with conflict-check workflow?
Yes. We build the intake to collect required identifying information over an HTTPS-only encrypted form, with the submission flowing into a conflict-check process before scheduling.
Will you integrate with Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, or Filevine?
Yes. We've worked with all four integration patterns. Form submissions and intake data can flow directly into your case management software.
How long does a law firm website take to build?
Typically 6 to 10 weeks from contract to launch. Multi-attorney firms with deep practice-area landing pages and secure intake configuration land at the longer end.
Do you do contracts?
No. The build is project based: pay in full ($5,500), or split into 4 monthly payments ($2,000 deposit + 4 × $875). Optional maintenance after launch runs $150-$500 a month. Cancel anytime.
Free site audit
Send me the URL of your current site (or your business name if you don't have one yet). I'll send a 5-minute Loom covering:
- →Mobile load speed and what's slowing it down
- →Whether your intake flow is costing you clients
- →What your Google Business Profile looks like vs. competing firms
- →Three specific things that would move you up in local search
- →Whether your site is structured for ChatGPT and Perplexity to cite
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