Our Story
The idea of a web design company focusing on law firm needs was born when Pete Boyd was in law school. It was the late ‘90s, and the internet was still a relatively new place. Pete, a self-taught computer geek and aspiring attorney, started checking out law firms online to learn more about potential employers.
He was surprised to find that many firms didn’t have a website. Those that did looked like “crap.” (Pete has always been very reluctant to say what he thinks). “I could do better,” he thought. So he did.
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2001
PaperStreet began when Pete was frustrated by the poor quality (or lack) of law firm websites as he researched potential employers. After finishing law school, he started building websites for legal clients as a side gig while working at a boutique IP law firm in Miami. We design our first gen website of PaperStreet.com.
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2002
In 2002, with several sites under his belt, Pete formally incorporated PaperStreet and soon quit his legal job to run the business full‑time from his living room.
PaperStreet starts offering Web Hosting Services.
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2003
Laura Benson is our first hire to help maintain websites. She now works at Becker Lawyers as Marketing Manager.
PaperStreet adds on SEO services and gets a client ranked #1 two weeks later.
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2004
PaperStreet starts its first WordPress website in version 1.2.
PaperStreet creates the Total Control content system based on Coldfusion and MS SQL in a weekend of work. Later we migrated it to PHP / MySQL that same year. Twenty years later, the system is still powering several hundred law firm websites.
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2005
PaperStreet hits a milestone of 100 clients!
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2006
For 20 years we have worked with Alejandro as our Designer.
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2007
Alex DiSebastian joins PaperStreet as Senior Designer. After nearly 20 years at PaperStreet, he is Vice President and Director of Internet Marketing.
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2008
Transitioned into a centralized office south of downtown Fort Lauderdale—a converted garage once used for building sports cars—marking a departure from Pete’s living room workspace.
We launched our Essentials website service during the market crash to provide attorneys with a new website instantly.
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2010
PaperStreet hits a milestone of 500 clients!
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2011
It’s been 15 years working with Ariel as our Web Developer.
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2011
Andrew Olesko joins PaperStreet as a Junior Developer. After more than 15 years, he is Vice President and Director of Development.
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2012
David joins the team, and after 14 years, he serves as our SEO Manager.
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2013
Allison Gagliardi and Robin Tidrick join PaperStreet. After 13 years, they serve respectively as the Content Director and Sales Director.
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2013
Chris joins our team and now 13 years later is our Lead Support Developer.
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2014
Kyle Anderson joins PaperStreet as a Support Developer. After more than a decade at PaperStreet, he is Technical Project Director.
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2014
Adrienne Kendrick joins the PaperStreet team. After more than 12 years she is our Blog Manager.
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2015
PaperStreet starts its annual retreats. Over the years, we’ve traveled as a group to Tampa, Turks & Caicos, Dominican Republic, Cancun and Orlando.
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2016
Mike joined the PaperStreet team and after a decade of coding websites he’s our Lead Developer.
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2017
PaperStreet is nominated for a Webby’s People’s Voice Award for the design of Bick Law LLP (bicklawllp.com).
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2020
Our team of about 25 people goes fully remote during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2023
PaperStreet hits a milestone of 2,000 clients!
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2026
PaperStreet celebrates 25 years of website design for lawyers across the country and the world.