Legal sector

Websites for law firms and solicitors.

A law firm website has an unusual job: it must be findable across dozens of distinct practice areas while still reading as one firm, and it is judged on credibility before anything else.

Practice area structure People profiles Compliance detail
The problem

Findability at scale, not a brochure.

Firms of any size have a structural problem: someone searching for employment advice and someone searching for conveyancing want completely different pages, and both have to exist, be findable, and feel like the same firm. Most firm websites handle this by burying practice areas three clicks down a menu, which is why they do not rank for any of them.

The second characteristic is that people matter more than in most sectors. Clients choose a solicitor at least partly on the individual, so profiles are not an afterthought page — they are frequently the most visited part of the site, and they have to connect properly to the work that person does.

The third is compliance. Regulated firms carry specific obligations about what the website must state, and the detail is the firm's to confirm with its own compliance team rather than ours to assert. What we can do is build the site so that information has a proper place and is straightforward to keep current.

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Discuss a project
What matters

What we would focus on.

Practice area architecture

Each area with a real page that can rank on its own, organised so the structure survives adding new ones.

People, properly connected

Profiles linked to the practice areas, offices and sectors they actually work in, so the site cross-references itself.

Enquiry quality

Routing the enquiry to the right team with enough context, rather than everything landing in one inbox.

Insight content

Somewhere for legal updates that is genuinely easy to publish, because a firm blog nobody can update dies within a year.

Multi-office structure

Several locations without three versions of the same page competing with each other in search.

Accessibility

Taken seriously, which matters for any professional services firm and more so for one advising on obligations.

Straight answers

Being straight about it.

We are not compliance advisers

Your regulatory obligations are yours to confirm. We build the site so that information has a place and stays easy to update.

Content is the real work

Practice area pages need writing by people who know the law. That is usually the bottleneck, not the build, and it is worth planning for.

Rebuilds can lose rankings

Firms often have years of ranking on individual practice pages. Preserving URLs is not optional, and it is where careless rebuilds do damage.

Related services

The wider picture.

Related work

Projects of a similar shape.

A lot of our work is delivered white label or under agreement, so these describe the problem and the approach rather than naming the client.

Questions

What firms ask us.

Can our team update practice pages themselves?
Yes, and they should be able to. Fee earners updating their own profiles and area pages without a developer is usually the difference between a site that stays current and one that is three years out of date.
How do we avoid our offices competing in search?
By structuring office and practice pages so each targets a distinct search rather than duplicating. Several near-identical pages for different towns split each other's ranking, which is a common and avoidable mistake.
Will a rebuild hurt our rankings?
Only if URLs are handled carelessly. Practice area pages often carry years of accumulated ranking, so every existing address needs to stay or redirect permanently. That is planned before the build, not after.
Next step

Tell us how the firm is organised.

Practice areas, offices and how enquiries currently reach the right person. That structure determines the site far more than the design does.