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Websites for criminal defense attorneys.

Most criminal defense searches happen in a hurry, by a family member, on a phone. Your number, your hours and the charges you handle have to be visible in the first second.

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What your clients want to know

Questions they type before they call.

  • My son was arrested. What happens now?
  • Will he be released before trial?
  • Do you handle DUI, drug or gun charges?
  • Which courthouse is the case in?
  • Can I talk to someone tonight?

What your site includes.

A criminal defense website from Settled Sites is a complete site built around the questions your clients ask before they call. It comes with the pages below, the Illinois rules for your practice checked, and every later change made for you by email, for $299 a month with no setup fee.

  • A homepage with a tap-to-call number that stays on screen
  • A page for each charge type you handle: DUI, drug offenses, weapons, domestic battery, juvenile cases
  • Pretrial release, explained
  • A page for each courthouse you appear in regularly
  • Spanish pages, if your firm serves clients in Spanish

Families still search for "bail".

Illinois ended cash bail on September 18, 2023, under the Pretrial Fairness Act. Families still search for bail bonds and bail amounts. A plain page explaining what happens instead, written in the words they use, answers the question that brought them to you.

Illinois Supreme Court, People v. Rowe, and the SAFE-T Act effective date of September 18, 2023.

The Illinois rules for your practice.

Case results are allowed in Illinois, but Rule 7.1 warns that results can create an unjustified expectation that the same outcome is available to others. Your site puts a clear disclaimer beside any results and avoids headlines like "Charges dismissed!" that read as a promise.

We are web designers, not lawyers, and this is not legal advice. You approve every page before it goes live.

Questions from criminal defense attorneys.

Should our site say we are available 24 hours a day?

Only if someone actually answers. A promise of round-the-clock help that goes to voicemail is the kind of statement Rule 7.1 is about, and families do not forgive it.