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Built for revenue-critical legal sites

WordPress operations for law firms.

Your intake form is a $50,000+ asset. Treating it like a brochure is how firms lose cases. A law-firm website that misroutes intake, breaks during an update, or fails an ADA scan costs more than its hosting bill in a single quarter.

Parameter runs the WordPress operations layer for firms that need their site to perform like the rest of the practice: predictable, documented, and operated by someone you can name. Intake monitored, accessibility worked on, backups tested, updates staged.

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What we operate

Three pillars, specific to law-firm sites.

The work is WordPress maintenance plus the things law firms actually need that horizontal WP shops don't think about.

Intake-form monitoring

Every form submission is tested daily by a synthetic check that mimics a real lead. If the email stops landing, the SMTP plugin breaks, or the form silently fails after a plugin update, we know inside the hour. You stop finding out about lost intake from the client who emailed twice.

ADA remediation, documented

Ongoing WCAG 2.2 remediation, prioritized by what actually catches in scans and what plaintiffs' firms scan for. Every fix is logged with date, change, and rationale. You get a documented record of good-faith effort, which is what your insurer and your own ethics counsel will ask for if a demand letter shows up.

Ethics-compliant uptime and backup

Daily backups, off the production server, with quarterly restore verification. Retention windows long enough to satisfy your records-retention obligations. Uptime monitoring with an audit log of incidents and resolutions, so when a disciplinary inquiry asks who had access to what and when, the answer exists.

What goes wrong with a law-firm WordPress site

Six things we've watched cost firms real money.

Each of these is a real incident pattern we've seen across firm engagements. Naming them here is how you stop them.

The intake form goes silent

A plugin update breaks the SMTP integration. The form on the site still looks fine and visitors get a confirmation page, but no email reaches the inbox. Two weeks pass. By the time someone notices, you've lost 30 leads and a five-figure case.

An ADA demand letter shows up

The plaintiffs' firm scanned the site, got a list of contrast and missing-alt violations, and sent a settlement demand. The firm wants to defend, but there's no documented remediation history to point to. That's the gap that turns a $5K nuisance settlement into a $25K one.

The site goes down on Saturday

A weekend plugin update conflicts with the theme. The site 500-errors for fourteen hours before the receptionist notices on Monday morning. Forty leads bounce, three of them were referred by your highest-value source, and Monday is spent firefighting instead of working files.

A plugin update bricks the live site

Updates ran directly on production because that's how the previous developer set it up. The auto-update broke the practice-area pages. The team finds out from a client who tried to read about a service area before calling.

Sketchy hosting becomes an ethics issue

The form posts PII to a server that turns out to be in a jurisdiction your malpractice carrier doesn't love. Or the hosting account is in the previous web vendor's name with no documented data-processing agreement. Both fixable; both better discovered now than during a Bar complaint.

Migrating off a locked-in platform

You started on Justia, LawLytics, or Scorpion years ago, and the rebuild quotes are eye-watering because all the content lives in a proprietary CMS. The migration is doable; the trick is doing it without losing the redirects, the schema markup, or the rankings the old vendor built up.

Pricing

Three ways in. Same operations discipline.

Annual billing shown. Monthly billing is available at slightly higher rates if you prefer not to pre-pay the year.

Operations only

Protect

$ 750 /yr
Use your existing host. We run the ops layer on top.
  • Intake-form monitoring and synthetic checks
  • Staging-first plugin and core updates
  • Daily backups, off-server, restore-verified
  • Monthly ADA remediation work, logged
  • Monthly exec-ready report
Start with Protect
Operations + Hosting

Protect + Pulse

$ 999 /yr
One vendor for ops and hosting. Cleaner audit trail.
  • Everything in Protect
  • Managed WordPress hosting on Pulse
  • Free migration from your current host
  • SSL, CDN, daily off-site backups included
  • Single vendor for any compliance inquiry
Start with Protect + Pulse
One-off

Emergency Diagnostic

$ 99 flat
Site down, hacked, or broken after an update.
  • Two hours with a senior engineer
  • Root-cause diagnosis and triage
  • Written report you can forward
  • Credited toward any annual Protect plan within 7 days
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FAQ

Questions law firms ask first.

Do you handle accessibility?
Yes. Ongoing WCAG 2.2 remediation is part of every Protect plan. We don't promise compliance because no honest operator can; what we promise is a documented record of good-faith effort, which is what holds up against a demand letter or an insurer inquiry.
What happens if the site goes down on a Saturday?
Our monitoring catches it within minutes. For Protect clients, an operator triages within the hour during business hours and within a few hours on weekends. We don't promise an unconditional weekend SLA, because the honest answer is we'd rather respond when a real engineer is available than promise something we can't always deliver. Most weekend issues we've seen resolve before Monday morning anyway.
Can you work with our existing host?
Yes. Protect runs on any WordPress host: WP Engine, Kinsta, Pressable, Pantheon, Cloudways, SiteGround, the cPanel/Plesk long tail. Pulse (our managed hosting) is optional and only worth doing if you want operations and hosting under one roof for the audit-trail simplicity.
How do you handle plugin updates without breaking intake forms?
Staging-first. Every update applies to a private copy of the site first, where we run a synthetic intake submission and verify the email arrives, the CRM gets the lead, and any conditional logic still works. Only then does the update deploy to production. The first time an intake form silently breaks in production is the last time it happens on our watch.
Do you have experience with law-firm-specific web hosts like Justia or LawLytics?
Yes, mostly on the migration-out side. Both platforms are fine for a starter site; both become constraining once a firm wants real customization or wants to own their content portably. We've migrated firms off both onto standalone WordPress, including the redirect mapping, the content extraction, and the SEO carryover. The migration takes weeks, not months, and the rankings hold if it's done in the right order.
How do you handle client confidentiality in your access to the site?
Standard NDA on engagement. Named operator access only, audit-logged at the WordPress and hosting layers. We do not touch any matter management system, document management system, or anything behind your client portal; the work is scoped to the public-facing WordPress site and its forms.
Will you sign our outside-counsel paperwork? Vendor intake, BAA if applicable?
Yes. We sign NDAs, MSAs, vendor-intake questionnaires, and document our security posture. If you handle PHI through any forms on the site (uncommon but it happens), a BAA is straightforward. Bring the paperwork; we route it the same day.
What about the firm's CMS or matter management system?
Out of scope. Parameter operates the WordPress marketing site and its lead-capture forms. Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, NetDocuments, iManage: none of that. We integrate where the public site needs to hand a lead to a CRM, but we don't get inside the practice tooling.
How fast can we start?
Onboarding is one to two weeks. We audit the current site, set up staging if it doesn't exist, document the access chain, and run the first synthetic intake check. Day one of the next billing month, we're operating.
Do you work only with Miami firms? We're a small firm in another state.
We work with firms across the US. Miami is the office and the basis for our local-business presence, but the work is remote-first and most of our law-firm clients are elsewhere. State bar requirements vary; we don't give legal advice on jurisdictional compliance, but we're familiar with the common ones.
The audit is free

Find out what's actually on your firm's site.

A free WordPress audit, scoped to the things that matter for a law firm: intake-form health, ADA exposure, plugin risk, and backup posture. No payment, no card, no trial-that-converts. You get the report.