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Static hosting for law firms

Solo and small-firm law sites have a clean shape: practice areas, attorney bios, case results, intake form, blog. The site exists to establish credibility and capture intake leads. Both survive migration.

What a typical law firm site looks like

Homepage with credibility cues, practice areas list, individual practice area pages, attorney bios, case results / verdicts page, blog (often the largest section), intake form, contact.

Most law firm sites we look at are on managed WordPress (WP Engine, GoDaddy Managed) running a legal-themed plugin or two. The intake form is the only meaningfully dynamic feature, and it's just a webhook.

When we run the automated assessment across the legal cohort, we see two clusters: solo and small-firm sites at 50–150 pages (clean fits for the standard plan) and mid-firm sites at 300–600 pages (Premium-tier for the extra QA on redirects). The largest, in the 500+ range, are usually Custom-tier projects.

Trade-specific things to know

  • Intake forms need a static endpoint with file upload (clients sending intake docs). We use Formspree or a custom Cloudflare Worker for this.
  • Disclaimer pages and 'legal' notices need to stay exactly the same word-for-word. We preserve them.
  • Some firms have an 'attorney login' link to a third-party case-management system (Clio, MyCase). That's an external link, unaffected by migration.
  • Schema markup (Attorney, LegalService, FAQ) is preserved through capture and re-emitted on the static pages.

10-year cost projection

Typical law firm hosting
€5,283
~€35/mo, 5% inflation
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€600
€600 once. No monthly.
You save
€4,683
over a decade

Our take

Law firm sites are credibility plays. They need to look professional and load fast. Static migration optimizes both — clean URLs, fast page loads, no maintenance windows.

Questions

Will my client intake form still capture file uploads?

Yes. We swap the WordPress form for a static-friendly form provider that handles file uploads (typically Formspree or a custom-built Cloudflare Worker).

Are static law firm websites OK for SEO?

Yes — arguably better. Page-load speed is a ranking factor, and static sites are the fastest possible. Your existing SEO history transfers because we preserve every URL.

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