How Much Does a Website for Lawyers Cost in Australia?

Solicitors measure their time in six-minute units, so it's natural to measure a website the same way. An independent Australian cost guide, verified in November 2026, puts family lawyers' hourly rates at $300–$750, with senior practitioners in Sydney and Melbourne charging more. The same publisher's web design guide gives $800–$3,000 for a landing page, $2,000–$6,000 for a small business site and $6,000–$15,000 for a custom build, usually with a 30–50% deposit on a fixed quote.

Another comparison: the guide puts a solicitor's professional fee for a standard residential conveyance at $1,500–$3,200, so our largest standard site costs about the same as the bottom of that range. We take no deposit. You review the draft, ask for changes, and pay once you approve it. WebCraft Studio isn't registered for GST, so if your practice is GST-registered, compare our price with other quotes before their GST is added.

Rule 36 of the Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules requires that a solicitor's or practice's advertising and promotion isn't false, misleading or deceptive, or likely to be, and isn't offensive or prohibited by law. Rule 36.2 bars a false or misleading impression of specialist expertise and reserves “accredited specialist”, and its derivatives such as post-nominals, for solicitors accredited by the relevant professional body. The Queensland Law Society also points out that the Australian Consumer Law's rules on misleading conduct and false representations about services apply alongside it.

In practice that changes a few design decisions rather than the price:

• Accreditation goes on the accredited solicitor's own profile, never across the firm as a whole.
• Words like “expert” and “specialist” get checked before launch, along with any statement about results or success rates.
• Each solicitor's profile can link to your state's public register so a client can confirm a current practising certificate.
• Fee claims such as a free first appointment say exactly what's included and for how long.

Personal injury work needs extra care in some states. The Law Society of NSW notes that the Uniform Law no longer contains the old ban on advertising personal injury legal services. Queensland is different: the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 limits the advertising of personal injury services, and in a May 2026 decision QCAT publicly reprimanded a practice principal over promotional statements on the firm's website. If you practise personal injury law, check your state's current rules with your law society before you send us the words. You approve every line before the site goes live, and none of this adds to what we charge.

A law firm's form has a different job from a tradie's quote form. It should be short, feel confidential and keep the details of a matter out of an email until you've confirmed you can act. A typical set of fields: the area of law, the client's name and suburb, the best way and time to reach them, whether a message can be left, any court date already set, and the names of other parties so you can run a conflict check. A note above the button asks people not to send documents or detailed facts yet.

Every package includes a contact form, and a longer multi-step intake form is something we build too. For first appointments, we can link the booking tool you already use, such as Calendly, from every page at no extra cost. If you want clients to choose a priced appointment and pay for it on your site, we build booking and payment systems into websites and quote each one separately.

Law firms tend to keep a website for years, so it's worth looking past the build. The independent guide puts website care plans at $50–$300 a month. For sites we build, hosting is $30 a month after launch, with no contract, covering hosting, security monitoring, backups, email support and unlimited text and image changes on existing pages. The domain is about $20 a year, registered in the firm's name, and we set up your business email.

The edits firms ask for most are a new solicitor's profile, someone leaving, a new accreditation, revised fees and changed office hours. Each is a text or image change on an existing page and is covered. A new page, for an area of law you've just added, is quoted before we begin.