LawyerPricing is a free price-comparison site for lawyers, starting with Illinois. It shows the flat fees and rates that law firms publish on their own websites, side by side, so you can compare what a will, divorce, bankruptcy or real estate closing costs before you call anyone.
How much does a lawyer cost in Illinois?
That’s the question I couldn’t answer. I’m Gaston, born and raised in Chicago. I spent 12 years in the Air Force, worked as an analyst at Credit Suisse, and spent a decade building businesses in Poland, including a coffee roaster and a grocery delivery company that was later acquired. When I came home and started looking into legal help for HOA and condo disputes, I kept hitting the same wall: you can’t find out what a lawyer costs until you’re already on the phone with one. You call, you explain your whole situation, and only then do you hear a number, if you hear one at all.
So my partner Mark and I went looking. We crawled the websites of 6,848 Illinois law firms (as of November 2026). Only about 1 to 2% of them publish any price at all. The prices do exist, though. A few firms post flat fees for wills, closings, bankruptcies and divorces. They’re just scattered across thousands of websites where nobody can compare them.
Law shouldn’t be obscure.
How does LawyerPricing compare lawyer prices?
- Pulls the prices firms already publish on their own websites and puts them side by side
- Sorts firms by price, by practice area and by county
- Shows real court filing fees by county, starting with Illinois
- Lets firms claim their listing for free and keep their prices current
- Never moves a firm up the list for paying
We’re two guys, self-funded, and built for the little guy, because that’s exactly what we are. A solo lawyer working out of a coworking space gets the same spot as a downtown firm. The price data is machine-checked, not hand-reviewed, so we don’t pretend it’s perfect, and every firm can correct its own listing.
Our goal is ambitious: move the share of firms that publish their prices from 1 or 2% to a third. Illinois is first. Then we go state by state until every state is covered. If you’ve ever put off calling a lawyer because you were afraid of the bill, this is for you.
