Stop Losing Clients to Slow, Broken, or Outdated Websites: Worry-Free Law Firm Website Maintenance

Ensure your law firm’s most important marketing tool is always secure, fast, and running smoothly with our expert, worry-free website maintenance and support plans.

Prevent Problems Before They Start.

Website Maintenance &
Support Services For Attorneys

Your law firm website is crucial for attracting potential clients. But creating it is just the first step. Maintaining it is equally important to ensure its longevity and effectiveness. Neglecting updates, security, and performance can lead to slow loading times, broken features, vulnerability to cyber-attacks, and costly downtime – all of which drive away potential clients and harm your reputation.

Our expert Law Firm Website Maintenance plans take the hassle out of website upkeep, allowing you to focus on what matters most – serving your clients and growing your practice.

Plans & Packages for:

  • Updates
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Support

The Problem: Time Drain, Security Risks, and Lost Opportunities

Maintaining a modern law firm website requires ongoing attention – attention that busy attorneys and their staff often don’t have.

  • Time-Consuming Updates: Keeping WordPress, themes, and plugins updated to ensure optimal performance and security.
  • Security Threats: The increasing threat of cyber-attacks requires constant vigilance to safeguard sensitive client information submitted through contact forms.
  • Performance Degradation: Websites can slow down over time, frustrating users and hurting SEO rankings.
  • Unexpected Downtime: Technical issues or attacks can take your site offline, resulting in lost revenue and missed opportunities.
  • Complexity & Hassle: Handling technical details, troubleshooting bugs, or making content updates requires technical know-how that takes away from legal work if handled in-house.

The Solution: Ensure Longevity, Security, and Performance

Investing in professional website maintenance is essential for your firm’s online health and success.

Prevent Problems Before They Start

Regular upkeep and proactive monitoring prevent issues before they impact your site or clients.

Set It & Forget It

Our plans handle the complexities so you don’t have to worry about website upkeep.

Focus On Your Practice

Free up valuable time previously spent on technical tasks.

Improve Site Over Time

We don’t just maintain your site but work to improve it every month, focusing on performance, security, and user experience.

Improve SEO, Rank Higher

Optimizing website speed, fixing broken links, and ensuring site health contribute to better search engine rankings.

Maximize Uptime

Avoid lost revenue and missed opportunities during unexpected downtime.

Boost Protection

Safeguard sensitive client information and protect against hacking, malware, or viruses.

Unlimited Updates

Need to update your website’s text? From small tweaks to full revisions, we’ll keep your messaging fresh and impactful.

Get Back to Practicing Law — We’ll Handle the Website.

Comprehensive Website Care: Services Designed for Law Firms

Our website maintenance packages offer a wide range of services designed specifically to meet your law firm’s unique needs and budget. They are designed to ensure that your law firm’s website stays up-to-date and secure while running smoothly. Let us handle the technical details so that you can concentrate on what matters most — serving your clients and building your practice.

Here’s what’s typically included in our plans:

We perform all necessary updates for WordPress, plugins, and frameworks to ensure optimal performance and security, cleaning up any bugs or issues found after updates.

Ensuring the security of your law firm’s website is crucial. Our team provides 24/7 monitoring to detect vulnerabilities, malware, and hacking attempts, taking prompt action. We implement the latest security updates, security patches, and protocols. Includes spam maintenance and prevention tools.

We include automatic daily backups of your full website and database. In the unlikely event of an issue, we can easily restore your data to a previous version. Includes Malware/Virus removal and Website/Webpage Restoral from backup.

We focus on speed and uptime. Includes regular performance scans and speed tests for desktop and mobile, uptime monitoring (with alerts), performance optimization (optimizing images, minimizing codes, implementing caching techniques) to improve load times and user experience.

Keeping your law firm’s website up-to-date and relevant includes regularly adding fresh website content, updating old content, and other website maintenance. We can update existing content, add new content/pages/posts (client provided), edit graphics/photos, fix broken pages/images/links.

We remove unused assets and files to keep your website running smoothly.

We’ll work with third-party vendors to install tracking code or other scripts. We’ll also set up and install analytics tools like Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and Google Tag Manager.

We address minor adjustments that enhance website navigation and ensure your site functions smoothly on all devices and popular browsers.

Have access to experts who can handle issues, answer questions, and provide guidance. Includes systems training, WordPress site support for themes, templates, plugins, user access management, and website consultation via Email / Phone Support.

Powered by the Best: Enterprise-Grade Reliability for Your Website

To deliver worry-free, high-performance website maintenance, we rely on industry-leading technology. Our services are powered by managed WordPress hosting built on the WP Cloud enterprise network, created by Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and WordPress VIP). This provides your website with an enterprise-grade foundation without you having to manage it.

Key advantages powered by this technology infrastructure include:

  • 100% Uptime SLA: Ensures your website is available when it matters most, backed by an uptime guarantee.
  • Containerized Solution: Your site gets its own isolated resources, preventing issues from other sites from affecting yours and enhancing security.
  • Scalable Resources: Provides ample PHP Workers/CPU threads and memory to handle traffic fluctuations, ensuring your site stays fast even during peak load.
  • Automatic Failover: If one server has an issue, your site automatically switches to a real-time replica on another server in a different region within milliseconds, ensuring uninterrupted service.
  • Robust Backup System: Automatic daily backups, hourly database backups, and on-demand backups stored off-site in multiple locations, providing reliable data protection.
  • Advanced Security: Multi-layered security protocols, 24/7 malware scanning, active vulnerability monitoring, and platform-level mitigations. Our Hack Promise means if your site gets hacked while on our maintenance, we’ll fix it for free.
  • Built-in CDN & Caching: Global network of data centers and built-in caching for unbeatable site speeds worldwide.

Pricing

Investing in Worry-Free Website Performance: Our Plans

When researching website maintenance services online, determining the cost and value can be challenging as it varies based on several factors. The size and complexity of your website, the level of service required, and the duration of the contract all play a vital role in deciding the price. While many businesses may prioritize cost-effectiveness, it’s essential to consider the long-term benefits that come with a professional maintaining your website – especially for a law firm.

We offer two streamlined plans designed to provide the level of maintenance and content update support your firm needs:

Basic

$249/m


For law firms that primarily need core security, performance management, and technical updates handled without frequent content changes. This plan includes all the services listed above except for unlimited content and website updates.

unlimited edits
$499/m

Most Common

For law firms that frequently update their websites and want to focus on aggressively improving their online presence and content. This plan includes all services from the Basic plan, plus unlimited updates to your website’s text, graphics, pages, and posts.

Features Basic Standard Premium
Monthly Flex Hours
Flex hours are used to work on the below features as needed for a given month. Most of the work below is done one-time during set up or is done automatically via the server’s tools, plugins and other automations. A majority of flex hours will be spent on Content Updates & Performance Optimizations. Any unused Flex Hours are rolled over to the next month. 2 hours 4 hours 8 hours
Managed Hosting & Domain Support
Managed hosting for both the live instance of your website and a development / testing environment.
Active maintenance and updating of all web server hardware and software
SSL/TLS encryption, setup and management of security certificates DNS record monitoring
DNS record hosting and management
DNS record monitoring
Site migration to WP Engine Server
URL Normalization
Content Updates & Other Website Maintenance Flex Hours Flex Hours Flex Hours
Update existing content/pages/posts
Add new content/pages/posts
Edit, add or remove graphics, photos or charts
Fix broken pages, broken images, broken links, broken videos, etc.
Script Installations for tracking code, etc.
Security Maintenance & Prevention
Spam maintenance and prevention
Security and monitoring
Daily backup of full website & database
Malware / Virus removal
Website / Webpage Restoral
Performance Management & Optimization
Performance Scans & Speed Tests for Desktop & Mobile
Performance Optimization Flex Hours Flex Hours
Downtime and performance monitoring
Setup and management of Google site reporting tools (Analytics, Tag Manager and Search Console)
Resource Management
Perform all WordPress, plugin, and framework updates
Clean up any bugs or issues found after updates
Remove unused assets and files.
Support
Systems training
WordPress support for themes, templates and plugins.
User Access issues
Website Consultation
Email / Phone Support
Monthly Cost $247 $497 $997
Additional Flex Hours $115/hr

A Website Maintenance & Support Company Specializing In Law Firms

Law firms have unique needs when it comes to website maintenance and support. You need a partner who understands the importance of safeguarding sensitive client information, maintaining a professional online image, and ensuring your website supports your legal marketing efforts.

With over 15 years of experience providing website maintenance and support services specifically for law firms, our team understands the importance of creating a positive user experience, improving Search Engine Optimization rankings, enhancing site performance, and boosting protection against cyber threats – all within the context of legal practice. By partnering with us, you can focus on your core business while we take care of all your website maintenance needs, leveraging enterprise-grade technology with a law-firm-focused approach.

DIY Website Maintenance vs. Expert Managed Service

Maintaining a consistent, secure, and high-performing law firm website requires significant time, technical expertise, and ongoing effort. You can attempt to manage these tasks internally (DIY) or partner with a specialized service provider (Done For You).

DONE FOR YOU

  • Expert Handling: Trained to deal with technical issues professionally
  • Proactive Updates: Ensures your site is always up-to-date and secure.
  • Efficiency: Automates routine tasks using advanced tools.
  • Time-Saving: Frees internal teams for core legal activities.
  • Scalability: Can manage complexity seamlessly.
  • Financial Cost: Can have a high financial cost compared to DIY.

DIY

  • Direct Control: Personal attention to specific issues.
  • Low Financial Cost: No / low external costs (but high time cost).
  • Resource Intensity: Consumes significant internal time and effort.
  • Limited Expertise: Might lack advanced tools or deep technical knowledge.
  • Potential Risks: Higher chance of errors, security vulnerabilities, and downtime if not done correctly.
  • Technical Constraints: Requires technical know-how or external web developer assistance for complex issues.

Whether DIY or Done-for-you, Consistency is Key

Consistency in website maintenance—from regular updates to security checks—is paramount. It boosts credibility, enhances SEO, protects against threats, and ensures a reliable user experience. For many law firms, maintaining this consistency while focusing on core business activities is a significant challenge. Outsourcing to experts like Thunderhead Marketing, who specialize in law firm websites, can be a beneficial move, ensuring your website remains a powerful asset without adding to your workload.

What Our Clients Say

  • We have worked with Jeremy and Celeste for years and are happy with the results we’ve seen. They are professional and very responsive.
    attorney tania rivas
    tania rivas
    Rivas law Group
  • I have used Thunderhead Marketing for at least 10 years- They have a great staff and always do what the say they will do in a professional and timely manner. Can’t recommend them enough.
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    CRM Group

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Stop Worrying About Your Website. Start Growing Your Practice

Don’t let website maintenance be a source of stress or a drain on your valuable time. Invest in worry-free website care designed specifically for law firms.