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Legal Software Development for Law Firms That Turn Inquiries Into Consultations

DeveloperLook handles legal software development for law firms, from solo attorneys to multi-office practices. We build websites, intake and CRM systems, Clio and MyCase integrations, client portals, and LawPay payments your firm owns.

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Industry leaders we work with

  • Clio
  • MyCase
  • LawPay
  • Lawmatics
  • CallRail
  • Google Business Profile
  • WordPress
  • Webflow
  • HubSpot
  • Twilio
  • QuickBooks
  • Google Analytics (GA4)

The Problem

Good Cases Slip Away Between Your Site, Phones, and Inbox

The leak rarely sits in one place. It shows up after hours, on weekends, and in the handoff between your website, your phones, and your practice software.

  1. After hours

    Night and weekend inquiries wait until Monday for a reply.

    After hours

    Intake sends an automatic email and text reply and routes the inquiry to the right attorney.

  2. Missed calls

    Calls after 5 pm go straight to voicemail.

    Missed calls

    An answering service or AI line picks up and books the consult on your calendar.

  3. Retyping

    Leads land in three places and get retyped into Clio or MyCase.

    Retyping

    Forms, calls, and chats post straight into Clio, MyCase, or your CRM with their source.

  4. Locked site

    Your site sits on a vendor platform, so edits need tickets.

    Locked site

    We build on WordPress, Webflow, or Next.js, and the domain and accounts stay in your name.

  5. Status calls

    Current clients call all day to ask where their case stands.

    Status calls

    A client portal shows case stages, documents, and invoices behind a secure login.

Your contact form gets a message at 9 pm from someone hurt in a crash, and nobody replies until Monday. By then another firm has called them back. Calls after 5 pm go to voicemail. Web leads, calls, and directory inquiries land in three places, and someone retypes them into Clio or MyCase. Your site sits on a vendor's platform, so every edit becomes a support ticket. And current clients call all day to ask where their case stands.

We start by tracing how an inquiry becomes a client: who answers, what gets screened, where the lead lands, and how the retainer is paid. Then we build the software in the order that signs clients soonest. The site earns the call, intake replies and routes it, Clio or MyCase stores it, and payment pages send the retainer to trust. A client portal answers status questions, so your staff spend the day on new clients, not status calls.

  • Inquiries answered and routed

    Your forms, calls, and chats reach the right attorney with conflict-check details and the lead source.

  • Pages your attorneys approve

    Practice pages, ads, and review requests pass a bar review step before anything goes live.

  • One record across your tools

    Intake, practice software, payments, and your client portal share data instead of four separate logins.

Our Services

Custom Legal Software Development, From One Team

Start with the piece you need now: a practice area site, intake automation, AI drafting, a practice software link, payments, or security for client files. Each one connects to the others, so the next build extends what you already have.

Websites

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Sites for each practice area, from injury, defense, and family law to immigration, bankruptcy, employment, and business law, built for your bar review.

Need something else? Talk to us

Who We Build For

Built Around Your Practice Area and How Clients Find You

An injury firm and an estate planning practice need different software, so one package can't fit both. Pick yours to see the services we combine and how long setup takes.

  1. 01 / 06Solo Attorneys

    The stack we usually build

    5 services, one project plan

    All services
    1. Website

      Law Firm Website Design Services

      Practice pages, your bio, and a consultation form with conflict checks.

    2. Local search

      Local SEO for Lawyers

      Your Google profile, attorney listing, and legal directories kept consistent.

    3. Practice software

      MyCase Website Integration Services

      Web leads land in MyCase, and clients reach its portal from your site.

    4. Payments

      Law Firm Payment Processing & LawPay Integration

      Retainers to trust and invoices to operating, paid online.

    5. Reviews

      Law Firm Reputation Management & Review Automation

      A review request to each client when a matter closes.

    Look established and answer each new inquiry

    You do the legal work, the phones, and the marketing yourself. You need a credible site, a map listing that brings nearby calls, and leads that land in MyCase without retyping.

    Solo attorneys and small partnerships: You're opening or rebuilding your own practice and need a credible site, a map listing, and new leads in one place.

    • Your site reads like an established practice
    • Calls from people searching near you
    • Your web leads in MyCase, not an inbox
    Plan this setupTypical timeline: 4 to 6 weeks
  2. 02 / 06Personal Injury

    The stack we usually build

    5 services, one project plan

    All services
    1. Website

      Personal Injury Lawyer Website Design

      Case-type pages, chat, and after-hours routing on a fast mobile site.

    2. Search

      Personal Injury SEO Services

      Case and county pages built on public crash data, plus digital PR.

    3. Paid search

      Law Firm PPC Agency & Custom Landing Pages

      Your Google Ads, with each ad group landing on its own page.

    4. Lead tool

      Car Accident Settlement Calculator Development

      A case value calculator that asks for crash details before the range.

    5. After hours

      24/7 Legal Answering Service & Intake Integration

      Night and weekend callers reach a receptionist who books the consult.

    Turn expensive clicks into signed cases

    You compete with billboard firms for crash and injury searches, and each click costs real money. You need case pages that load fast on phones, calls answered at night, and cost per signed case by source.

    Personal injury firms: You're paying for clicks, but night calls hit voicemail and your intake software can't show which ads signed cases.

    • Case pages built for paid and organic clicks
    • Crash details collected before the first call
    • Cost per signed case by channel
    Plan this setupTypical timeline: 5 to 12 weeks
  3. 03 / 06Criminal Defense

    The stack we usually build

    5 services, one project plan

    All services
    1. Website

      Criminal Defense Attorney Website Design

      Charge and county court pages with tap-to-call fixed on screen.

    2. 24/7 calls

      24/7 Legal Answering Service & Intake Integration

      Urgent callers warm-transferred to the lawyer on call.

    3. Paid search

      Law Firm PPC Agency & Custom Landing Pages

      DUI and felony ads that land on matching charge pages.

    4. Local search

      Local SEO for Lawyers

      Map pack visibility for searches near your office.

    5. Financing

      Legal Fee Financing Integration Services

      Pay-over-time options when a retainer is due quickly.

    Answer the arrest-night call before another firm does

    Your next client may be calling at 2 am from a relative's phone, scared and in a hurry. They want a lawyer who picks up and explains the next step, so speed and privacy matter more than a polished homepage.

    Criminal defense lawyers: Your phones ring after arrests at night and on weekends, and callers hang up when they reach voicemail or a long form.

    • Tap-to-call on every phone screen
    • Urgent calls routed to the lawyer on call
    • Charge and court pages that match the search
    Plan this setupTypical timeline: 4 to 11 weeks
  4. 04 / 06Family Law

    The stack we usually build

    5 services, one project plan

    All services
    1. Website

      Family Law Attorney Website Design

      Quick exit buttons, safe-contact intake, and calm guides.

    2. Intake

      Legal Client Intake Automation & Software Setup

      Screening questions and conflict checks before the consult.

    3. Client portal

      Law Firm Client Portal Development

      Your clients see case stages, documents, and messages behind an MFA login.

    4. Payments

      Law Firm Payment Processing & LawPay Integration

      Online retainer and invoice payments, trust and operating kept apart.

    5. Financing

      Legal Fee Financing Integration Services

      Pay-over-time options for clients facing a large retainer.

    Give worried clients a safe way to reach you

    Your clients search about divorce or custody, sometimes on a shared phone or laptop. They need privacy, plain answers about fees, and a way to send documents without long email chains.

    Family law practices: Your clients worry about a spouse seeing their search, so your site needs a quick exit button and safe ways to contact you.

    • Quick exit and safe-contact options on each page
    • Intake screened before the consult
    • Documents and invoices behind a secure login
    Plan this setupTypical timeline: 4 to 10 weeks
  5. 05 / 06Estate Planning

    The stack we usually build

    4 services, one project plan

    All services
    1. Website

      Estate Planning Website Design Services

      Wills and trusts guides, seminar sign-ups, and a pre-meeting questionnaire.

    2. Search

      Law Firm SEO Services

      Pages your attorneys approve for wills, trusts, and probate searches.

    3. Practice software

      Clio Website Integration Services

      Form answers reach Clio Grow, and consults book through Clio Scheduler.

    4. Documents

      Law Firm Workflow Automation Services

      Engagement letters and matter checklists built from templates.

    Teach first, then book the planning meeting

    Your clients take weeks to decide and read closely before they call. You need guides that answer their questions, a questionnaire finished before the first meeting, and documents drafted without retyping.

    • Guides that bring in careful readers
    • Questionnaires finished before first meetings
    • Engagement letters drafted from matter data
    Plan this setupTypical timeline: 4 to 10 weeks
  6. 06 / 06Multi-Office Firms

    The stack we usually build

    5 services, one project plan

    All services
    1. CRM

      Law Firm CRM Integration & Automation

      Forms, calls, chat, and ad leads in one pipeline with source fields.

    2. Intake

      Legal Client Intake Automation & Software Setup

      One screening standard, routed by practice area and office.

    3. Automation

      Law Firm Workflow Automation Services

      Engagement letters, deadline reminders, and billing steps automated.

    4. Client portal

      Law Firm Client Portal Development

      Case status online, so fewer calls reach your front desk.

    5. SEO

      Law Firm SEO Services

      Practice pages mapped to intent and tracked to signed cases.

    Run intake the same way at each office

    You're adding attorneys, offices, or practice areas, and each one handles leads its own way. You need one pipeline, one intake standard, and reports your partners trust.

    Multi-office and growing firms: You need a law firm software developer to make each office screen, follow up, and report on leads the same way.

    • Leads from each channel in one pipeline
    • The same screening rules at each office
    • Partner reports by office and source
    Plan this setupTypical timeline: 6 to 12 weeks

Our Process

From First Call to Signed Clients in Five Clear Steps

You see the plan and a fixed price before work starts, and you approve the pages, intake questions, and wording before anything goes live.

  1. We check your site, phones, intake forms, and practice software, and follow an after-hours inquiry to see where it goes. You get a short list of leaks, ranked by how many inquiries each one touches.

What Our Clients Say

What Clients Say After Launch

Feedback from teams we have built websites, intake flows, and integrations for.

We had a pretty specific idea of what we wanted our website to become, but I wasn’t sure how easily we could explain all of it to a development team. There were quite a few moving parts, and we were working toward a deadline, so I expected a few things to get lost along the way. That never really happened. They understood what we were trying to achieve, kept us updated throughout the process, and got everything ready within the agreed timeline. The final site feels much easier to navigate, works beautifully on mobile, and is noticeably smoother for our customers. It was a huge relief seeing the original idea actually turn into the website we had in mind.

Michael BennettFounder & CEO of Northbridge Consulting01 / 03
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Overview

What do legal software development services include?

DeveloperLook is a legal software development company that builds websites, intake systems, and client portals for solo attorneys and growing firms. We connect Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Filevine, Lawmatics, Smokeball, LawPay, and your phones, so inquiries get fast answers and one shared record. Setups start at $500, sites with intake launch in 4 to 8 weeks, and the code and accounts stay in your name.

DEVELOPERLOOK

Project facts · Legal Software Development for Law Firms

Service
Legal software development (websites, intake, AI drafting, portals, payments, security)
Typical timeline
Setups in 1 to 3 weeks, sites in 4 to 8 weeks
Platforms
WordPress, Webflow, Next.js, Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Filevine, Lawmatics, Smokeball, and LawPay
Built with
Next.js, Node.js, Clio and MyCase APIs, Twilio, and Zapier
Experience
10+ years of development experience and 1,250+ shipped projects
Post-launch support
30 days included with every plan
Communication
Calls in US, UK, and AU business hours
Starting price
From $500 USD, fixed scope after a free review

Reviewed 29 Oct 2026 by Saimul Islam

Not a fit

  • Budget under $500

    Your budget is under $500. A free Google Business Profile and a template site fit better for now, and if that covers your case, we'll tell you before we quote.

  • Only Google Ads

    You only want Google Ads managed on your current site. You don't need new software; our PPC and landing page service handles that alone.

  • Only a connector

    You like your site and only need its forms flowing into Clio or MyCase. Our Clio and MyCase integration services cost less than a bundle.

  • Choosing software

    You're still choosing case management software. Clio, MyCase, and PracticePanther sell that directly, and we connect whichever you pick to your site and intake.

  • Search traffic only

    You only want more cases from search, with no new site or intake. Our Law Firm SEO Services or Local SEO for Lawyers program handles that on its own.

  • E-discovery and review

    You need e-discovery or document review across large litigation files. Dedicated e-discovery platforms handle that work; we build the site, intake, and client portal around your practice.

  • Large firm procurement

    You run a firm with hundreds of lawyers and a formal IT procurement process. We fit solo attorneys, small firms, and multi-office practices better than enterprise rollouts.

  • Looking for a lawyer

    You need a lawyer for your own case. We build websites and software for law firms, so a local bar association's referral service is the place to start.

Not sure we're the right fit?

Book a free call or message us. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team.

Pricing

Transparent Starting Prices for Legal Technology Development

These are starting points in USD. Your final price depends on your practice areas, site size, and the tools we connect, and you get a fixed proposal after a free review call.

$1k$2k$3k$4k$5k$500$2,300$3,850

For firms fixing one gap first, from fee financing at $500 to a Clio link at $700.

$500one-time, USD

Get a fixed quote
  • One setup: financing, payments, MyCase, or Clio
  • Free review of the step it fixes
  • Tested with sample leads or payments
  • Settings and accounts in your name
  • 30 days of support

Recommended

For firms that need a practice site plus intake that screens and routes each inquiry.

$2,300one-time, USD

Get a fixed quote
  • Practice site with up to 8 pages
  • Screened intake form with conflict checks
  • Automatic email and text replies
  • Leads routed into Clio Grow, MyCase, or a CRM
  • Domain, site, and accounts in your name
  • 30 days of support

For firms that want the site, intake, phones, and retainer payments built as one system.

$3,850one-time, USD

Get a fixed quote
  • Everything in Website and Intake
  • Answering service linked to Clio Grow or MyCase
  • Urgent calls routed to a lawyer
  • Consult booking from your calendar
  • Trust-safe retainer and invoice pages
  • 30 days of support

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers on cost, timelines, custom builds, Clio and MyCase, and law firm websites.

  • DeveloperLook pricing starts at $500 for a single setup, such as fee financing through your payment processor. A practice site with screened intake starts at $2,300, and adding an answering service link and payment pages makes it $3,850. A client portal on your own domain starts at $1,450. Processors, answering services, and software vendors bill their own subscriptions.

  • Single setups take 1 to 3 weeks, and a practice site with screened intake takes 4 to 8 weeks. Review and planning take about a week, design 1 to 2 weeks, and the build and tests 2 to 4 weeks. Client portals with co-counsel roles and audit logs can run up to 12 weeks, because permissions need a pilot before every client gets an invite.

  • Legal software is any tool a law firm uses to run matters, clients, and money, from practice management to intake, billing, and document automation. Many firms run Clio or MyCase, add an intake or CRM tool such as Lawmatics, and take payments through LawPay. Custom work fills the gaps between them: a screened intake form, a portal on your domain, or a calculator for injury pages.

  • Start with one job the app must do well, such as case status or intake, then build it around your practice software. In legal app development, a secure web app or installable portal is often enough, and it skips App Store review. Connect it to your practice software through its API, add MFA and audit logs, and pilot it with a few clients before launch.

  • Build it around your practice areas: one page per area, attorney bios, a consultation form with conflict-check fields, and click-to-call on phones. Before launch, your responsible attorney reviews each claim. ABA Model Rule 7.2 limits specialist claims and requires the name and contact details of a lawyer or firm responsible for the content. Our Law Firm Website Design Services page covers the full build, from $1,350.

  • You can create a simple law firm website yourself with a template builder such as Squarespace, Wix, or WordPress. Cover your practice areas, your bio, office details, and a contact form, and name the lawyer responsible for the content. Hire help when you need intake routing, links to your practice software, or pages for several attorneys and offices.

  • Buy the core system and build only the gaps, because practice management and billing are mature products you shouldn't rebuild. Clio, MyCase, and PracticePanther handle matters, time, and invoices. Custom legal software development makes sense for what they don't cover well, and a good legal app development company says so before quoting a rebuild.

  • Yes, both publish APIs, though access differs by product and plan. Clio accepts web leads through its Lead Inbox and exposes contacts, matters, and calendars through the Clio Manage API. Its webhooks expire after 31 days, so builds renew them on a schedule. MyCase limits its Open API to the Advanced tier, so firms on other tiers connect through embedded lead forms or Zapier.

  • We limit access by matter, require multi-factor login, encrypt data in transit and at rest, and log who viewed or downloaded each file. ABA Model Rule 1.6(c) asks lawyers to make reasonable efforts against unauthorized access, and Formal Opinion 477R explains what that means for electronic communications. Intake forms ask only for conflict-check basics first, since Rule 1.18 protects what prospective clients share.

  • Your firm owns the code, the domain, the hosting and software accounts, and the client records. We work through logins you grant and hand over admin access, source files, and a short runbook at launch. Support covers the first 30 days, and after that your own IT provider or our team can maintain it.

Saimul IslamFounder & CEO, DeveloperLook

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