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People rarely browse for a solicitor. They arrive because something has happened — an accident, a dispute, a purchase, a bereavement — and they need to know quickly whether you handle it and whether they can afford you. A law firm website that answers those two questions faster than its competitors wins the instruction.

70%of legal enquiries begin with a search
1 pageper practice area, minimum
SRAtransparency rules met by default
Legal services website design and SEO for law firms by CodexBeam
The problem

What Makes Legal Different Online

Practice areas are separate businesses

Conveyancing, family, personal injury, employment and probate have different clients, different urgency and completely different search landscapes. Treating them as one website with a shared voice underserves all of them.

Visitors are often distressed

Someone researching divorce or a fatal accident claim is not in a comparing mood. Plain language, obvious next steps, and an absence of jargon matter more here than almost anywhere else.

Cost anxiety stops enquiries

The fear of an open-ended bill prevents more enquiries than any other factor. Fixed fees, funding options and no-win-no-fee terms stated plainly remove the biggest single obstacle between a visitor and a phone call.

Regulatory obligations shape the site

SRA transparency rules require published price and service information for certain work, complaints procedures must be accessible, and firm details must appear correctly. These are not optional design decisions.

What we build

What We Build For Legal Services

01A full page for every practice areaEach area written for its own audience, with its own tone, its own FAQs and its own funding explanation — because a conveyancing client and a personal injury client share almost nothing.
02Transparent pricing where requiredSRA-compliant price and service information presented clearly rather than buried in a PDF. Firms that present this well convert better than those treating it as a box to tick.
03Enquiry routes for people in difficultyPhone, form and callback, with realistic response times stated and confidentiality made explicit. Some people cannot safely make a call, and a discreet form matters more than it might appear.
04Solicitor profiles with credentialsNamed people with qualifications, admission dates and practice areas. Clients instruct individuals rather than brands, and profile pages consistently rank for name searches when someone is checking you out.
05Local pages for local workConveyancing and family work are strongly local. Pages for the towns you serve, written with genuine local content, capture searches national firms cannot address credibly.
06Accessibility taken seriouslyLegal information must be reachable by people using screen readers or keyboard navigation. It is both an obligation and a straightforward improvement to how the site performs generally.
Search

How Legal Clients Actually Search

Practice area plus location

"Family solicitor Bristol", "conveyancing solicitor near me", "employment lawyer [city]" — this is where the winnable, high-intent volume sits for most firms.

Question and process searches

"How long does conveyancing take", "can I claim for an accident at work", "what happens at a first divorce meeting". These capture people before they choose a firm and establish you as the one that already helped.

AI answers now precede the click

Assistants increasingly answer legal questions directly and cite the sources behind them. Pages that answer precisely, state jurisdiction, and carry a clear review date are the ones referenced — which puts your firm in front of people who never reach a results page.

Searches this page targets

conveyancing solicitor near mefamily solicitor [city]no win no fee solicitorshow much does a divorce costemployment lawyer free consultationprobate solicitor fees
Tech Stack

Technologies & Tools We Work With

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FAQs

Legal Website Questions, Answered

If you carry out the specified work — including conveyancing, probate, employment tribunals and licensing — then yes, price and service information must be published and easy to find. We build it in as proper pages rather than a downloadable file.

Yes, and ideally sub-pages beneath them. "Family law" covers divorce, children matters and financial settlements, each of which is a distinct search. Combining them means competing weakly for all three.

It is usually the opposite. Cost uncertainty is the main reason people do not enquire. Firms publishing fixed fees or clear ranges typically report better-qualified enquiries and fewer wasted consultations.

Not on advertising spend. On locality, on named solicitors with real credentials, and on genuinely useful content about the process. Many people actively prefer a local firm they can visit over a call centre.

Yes, including content, profiles and rankings. Redirect mapping is planned before launch so existing practice area pages keep the authority they have built — that is the step most migrations skip and later regret.

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