Solicitors Website Design
Law firm websites that meet the SRA's rules and win the enquiry. We design and build custom websites for solicitors across the UK, from sole practitioners to multi-office firms, with a page for every practice area, price and service information built to the transparency rules, solicitor profiles and the enquiry routes clients expect.
A Law Firm's Website Is Checked Before It Is Trusted
People rarely instruct a solicitor on impulse. Someone buying a house collects three conveyancing quotes in an afternoon, a dismissed employee reads about settlement agreements, and a family facing probate wants to know the cost before ringing anyone. Each of them opens several firms' websites, looks for a price, a named solicitor and a sign that the firm is regulated, and gets in touch with the one that made those things easiest to find.
A law firm's website also has rules to meet. In England and Wales the SRA Transparency Rules require every regulated firm to publish a complaints procedure and display the SRA's digital badge, and firms offering certain services, from residential conveyancing to debt recovery, to publish price and service information as well. Scottish and Northern Irish firms answer to their own Law Societies. The design has to carry all of that without turning the site into a legal notice.
We have built websites for solicitors and law firms before, including Avenue Solicitors, a London practice site designed around the SRA's transparency requirements, and a UK legal directory application with its own ranking algorithm. DigitalPod is a UK web design studio working entirely online, designing every site from scratch and hand-coding it for speed and accessibility. Law firm websites start from £2,400, with a fixed quote before any work begins and the finished site owned by the firm.
What We Build Into a Law Firm Website
A Page for Every Practice Area
Separate pages for conveyancing, wills and probate, family, employment and litigation, with sub-pages for the matters people search for, such as settlement agreements or lease extensions, so each is found on its own.
Transparency Price Pages
Price and service pages for the services the SRA lists, setting out your charging basis, disbursements, VAT, what is included, stages, timescales and who does the work, laid out so clients can follow them.
SRA Badge and Regulatory Footer
The SRA's clickable digital badge and your SRA number in a prominent place on every page, with your complaints procedure and legal entity details a click away, so anyone can confirm you are regulated.
Solicitor Profiles
A profile for each solicitor with a real photograph, qualifications, year of admission, the work they handle and a direct way to contact them. Clients instruct a person, so these pages carry real weight.
Enquiry Routes for Every Matter
Short enquiry forms on each practice area page, click-to-call and a call-back option, routed to the right team rather than a general inbox, with reviews from Google and ReviewSolicitors shown beside them where people decide.
Accessible and Easy to Read
Clear typography, strong contrast, keyboard navigation and plain-English page structure, because many visitors arrive stressed, on a phone or with a disability, and an accessible site serves all of them.
The Pages a Law Firm Website Needs
- Home. Your practice areas, the people behind them, the places you serve and a clear enquiry route in the first screen, with the SRA badge, your accreditations and recent reviews below.
- Practice area pages. One page per area and one per common matter within it: conveyancing splits into buying, selling, remortgaging and leasehold, family into divorce, finances and children. Each explains the process, cost and who acts.
- Price and service information. The pages the SRA Transparency Rules require for any listed service you advertise, such as conveyancing, probate, motoring offences and tribunal claims, written in plain English and linked from the relevant practice area.
- Our solicitors. Profiles of every fee earner with photographs, qualifications, specialisms and contact details, including the experience of those doing listed work and their supervisors, which the transparency rules ask for.
- Complaints and regulatory information. How to complain to the firm, how and when to go to the Legal Ombudsman and the SRA, and the company or LLP details the law requires, on one easy-to-find page.
- Reviews and client stories. Reviews from Google and ReviewSolicitors, pulled through and marked up for search, plus anonymised case examples that show the kind of matters you handle without breaching client confidentiality.
- Contact and enquiry. Phone, a short enquiry form that asks only what you need to open a file, your office addresses and hours, and a note of how quickly someone will call back.
Not sure how many pages you need? Our guide to what pages a business website should have walks through each one, and every project starts with a page plan agreed before any design work begins.
Trust, Accreditations and Compliance for Solicitors
Clients hand solicitors house deposits, family disputes and the details of their worst week, so they look for proof that the firm is regulated before they get in touch. Some of that proof is mandatory in England and Wales, and the rest is what a careful client expects:
- SRA digital badge and number. The SRA requires every firm it regulates to display its SRA number and the clickable digital badge in a prominent place on its website. We put both in every page's footer, where a click confirms you are regulated.
- Price and service information. If you advertise any of the services the SRA lists, from residential conveyancing to business debt recovery, the Transparency Rules require published prices, the basis of your charges, disbursements, VAT, what is included, stages, timescales and who does the work.
- Complaints procedure. The same rules require your website to explain how to complain, including how and when a client can go to the Legal Ombudsman and to the SRA. We give it a page of its own, linked from the footer.
- Law Society accreditations. Lexcel for practice management and the Conveyancing Quality Scheme, which many mortgage lenders look for, plus specialist accreditations such as Family Law or Children Law. Each logo is used only while the accreditation is current.
- Other nations, other regulators. The SRA rules apply in England and Wales. Scottish firms are regulated by the Law Society of Scotland and Northern Irish firms by the Law Society of Northern Ireland, so we check your regulator's current guidance first.
How People Find Solicitors Online
How people look for a solicitor depends on the matter. Conveyancing is price-led: buyers search "conveyancing solicitor near me" or arrive via a comparison site or estate agent, gather three quotes and choose within a day. Family, employment and probate enquiries are slower and more anxious, with people reading several firms' pages over a week before they feel ready to call. Criminal work is urgent and happens on a phone, often at night.
Most legal searches are still local. "Solicitors [town]" and "employment solicitor [town]" bring up the Google Business Profile listings in the map results first, so the profile, its reviews and the consistency between it and the website matter as much as the pages themselves. Firms with more than one office need a page for each, with its own address, hours and solicitors, rather than one contact page that lists them all.
Directories and review sites sit between the search and the firm. The Law Society's Find a Solicitor, ReviewSolicitors and Google reviews send visitors, and having built a UK legal directory with its own ranking algorithm, we know what gets a listing clicked: specialism, reviews and a clear next step. Either way, people land on the website to check the people, the price and the badge before they fill in a form.
Every website we build includes the search engine foundations: page titles written around the searches your customers make, fast loading, mobile-first layouts, a sitemap and a structure that matches your Google Business Profile. Our guide to getting found on Google explains what to do after launch.
Already Have a Website? Signs It Needs Replacing
Many firms have a website that a legal marketing agency built years ago on a monthly contract, or one that has had practice areas and partners bolted on since. If any of these apply, the site is costing you instructions and may fall short of the rules:
- Price and service information is missing, out of date or buried in a PDF, which may put you in breach of the transparency rules.
- The SRA digital badge is absent or the complaints procedure cannot be found, so a careful client cannot confirm you are regulated.
- One services page lists fifteen practice areas, so you never rank for specific searches such as settlement agreement solicitor or lease extension.
- The team page has no photographs, still lists people who have left and gives no way to contact the solicitor you want.
- Enquiries go to a general inbox that nobody owns, the forms fail on a phone and nobody knows who called back.
- You pay a legal marketing agency every month for a template site you do not own and cannot take with you.
Our website redesign service replaces dated or underperforming sites while protecting the search rankings you have built up, and the website redesign guide explains how to decide between a refresh and a rebuild. Launching a new law firm instead? Start with our startup solicitors website design page.
Related Work and What Clients Say
Avenue Solicitors: a London legal practice website built to meet the SRA's transparency requirements, with a multi-level services menu, filtered Google reviews and the search engine foundations a competitive legal market demands.
Law Firms: a UK legal directory web application with map-based search, a custom ranking algorithm, a Postgres database and an admin dashboard.
"Digitalpod have achieved really strong rankings for my law firm. We are all very pleased with the results and have definitely seen an increase in the number of clients that we have over the last few months which I am sure is down to the search engine optimisation."
"Matthew has provided an excellent service to Axiom Stone Solicitors during the course of our working relationship with him- from initial inception/design of our new website through to ongoing maintenance and SEO for the firm. The results have been remarkable and it has been extremely useful to receive his quarterly reports to evidence the increased traffic to our site. Matthew provides excellent customer care and attention to detail and we would have no hesitate in recommending him and the services he provides to others."
"Patient, knowledgeable, thoroughly professional and highly competitive. Mathew is a pleasure to do business with, his advice and suggestions were timely and well delivered and a real skill in understanding what I was hoping to achieve and delivering it."
Solicitors Website Design Questions
Can you build the price pages the SRA Transparency Rules require?
Yes. For each listed service you advertise we design a page that sets out the price or range, the basis of charging, disbursements, VAT, what is and is not included, stages, timescales and the experience of the people doing the work. You supply the figures, your compliance officer signs them off, and you can update the pages when fees or disbursements change.
We are a Scottish firm. Do the SRA rules apply to us?
No. The SRA regulates solicitors in England and Wales, so its rules and badge do not apply in Scotland, where firms are regulated by the Law Society of Scotland, or in Northern Ireland, regulated by the Law Society of Northern Ireland. Each has its own rules on what a firm must publish, so we build the site around your regulator's current guidance.
Should every solicitor have a profile page?
Yes, including the paralegals clients deal with. People choose a solicitor as much as a firm, and a profile with a real photograph, qualifications, year of admission and the kinds of matter they handle is what turns a visitor into an enquiry. Because people join and leave, the admin dashboard lets you add and retire profiles without a designer.
Can clients get an instant conveyancing quote on the website?
They can. The transparency rules already require you to publish conveyancing prices, and a quote calculator turns those figures into a personalised estimate for a purchase, sale or remortgage, with disbursements itemised. It is quoted individually and usually sits on the website with admin dashboard package, from £3,900, so you can change the figures yourself. A simpler quote request form is within the starting price.
Our site was built by a legal marketing agency on a monthly contract. Can you replace it?
Yes. Our website redesign service is built for exactly this. We map every existing page, plan the new structure around your practice areas and the transparency requirements, redirect the old addresses so the search visibility you have earned carries over, and hand you a site you own outright. If the agency controls your domain or Google Business Profile, we help you recover them before the switch.
More answers in our FAQ. See what a law firm website costs on our solicitors website design prices page, or, if you are just starting out, read about startup websites for solicitors.
Guides to Planning and Costing Your Website
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Get a Fixed Quote for Your Law Firm Website
Tell us about your law firm, your customers and what the website needs to do, or book a call with our senior software engineer to talk it through. Everything runs online, wherever in the UK you are based, and we reply personally with a clear, fixed price.