Website Design for Estate & Probate Lawyers Built for Every Generation
Estate and probate clients span three generations — the 70-year-old planning a revocable trust, the 55-year-old daughter navigating probate after a parent's death, the 30-year-old funding a special-needs trust for a sibling. We design firm-scale estate websites with senior-appropriate accessibility, document-secure intake, elder law + special-needs silos, and scheduling-first conversion flow tuned to how planning and probate prospects actually decide to retain.
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The Problems We Fix
Senior prospects can't read the site — and you're losing them before the intake form
The largest estate-planning cohort is 65+. Default body type sizes, low-contrast color schemes, scrolling hero videos, and animation-heavy modern design actively filter this audience out. WCAG AA is a floor, not a ceiling — most estate firm sites don't even hit the floor, and the prospect bounces to a competitor whose site they can actually read.
Volume planning and high-net-worth practice share the same site and convert neither well
Your $1,200 revocable-trust intake and your $50,000 dynasty-trust intake look at the same homepage. Volume prospects feel intimidated; HNW prospects feel unserved. Without architecturally separate content tiers — and differentiated design language per tier — your site loses the top of the practice and underserves the bottom.
Probate prospects from deceased clients' families can't find the trust that was already drafted here
Multi-generation client relationships are the highest-LTV asset an estate firm has — and nothing on the site reinforces them. A bereaved adult child searching for the firm that drafted their parent's trust should land on a next-generation-probate page that recognizes that relationship. Instead they land on a generic 'probate services' page and call whoever came up first on Google.
Senior-First Accessibility Engineering
WCAG 2.1 AA is the floor; we target AAA on typography, color contrast, and interaction timeouts. Base body type sized for 65+ readers (18px floor, scalable to 150% without layout break). High-contrast color palette tested for common age-related vision conditions (cataract, macular-degeneration color-shift, reduced contrast sensitivity). No auto-playing motion, no time-limited interactions, no pinch-to-zoom traps on mobile.
- WCAG 2.1 AA baseline, AAA on type + contrast
- 18px floor body type, 150%-scalable without layout break
- High-contrast palette tested for common age-related vision
- No auto-play motion, no time-limited interactions
Tier-Separated Practice Architecture
Volume practice (wills, basic revocable trusts, POA, advance directives) lives in a plain-English, scheduling-first silo with transparent pricing and clear 'what to bring to your first meeting' content. High-net-worth practice (dynasty trusts, GST, SLAT, ILIT, business succession) lives in an advisor-toned silo with ACTEC fellowship surfacing, peer-referral content, and discrete consultation flow. Elder law, special needs, and probate litigation get their own silos with practice-specific UX.
- Volume silo with transparent-pricing + scheduling-first UX
- HNW silo with ACTEC fellowship + peer-referral architecture
- Elder law silo (Medicaid, long-term care, VA benefits)
- Special-needs silo (SNT, ABLE, guardianship alternatives)
Multi-Generation Client Recognition UX
Dedicated 'your parent's trust was drafted here' landing pages for adult children entering the firm's ecosystem after a death in the family. Document-secure client portal showing existing relationships. Next-generation intake flow that preserves the family's history with the firm while onboarding the new-generation client as their own relationship. The highest-LTV asset the firm has finally gets reinforced by the website.
Scheduling-First Conversion Architecture
Estate prospects don't need crisis-mode click-to-call; they need clear scheduling, clear preparation, and clear pricing expectations. Integrated calendar booking (Calendly, Acuity, or native CMS scheduling), clear 'what to bring' pre-consultation content, document-secure intake for estate inventories, and pricing transparency for volume services. Conversion is measured in booked consultations, not 2am callbacks.
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