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Web design · Legal sectorWeb design for solicitors, credible without being cold.
Most legal websites look like each other: stock handshakes, panelled offices and language nobody speaks. The firms that stand out are the ones that sound like people.
Practice area pagesPlain EnglishAccessibleBuilt to convert
What we do
Web design for solicitors, built around an anxious visitor.
Somebody visiting a law firm website usually has a problem they did not want. They are often worried, sometimes out of their depth, and almost always comparing two or three firms before picking up the phone. That should drive every design decision. The site needs to be easy to navigate when you are not thinking clearly, written in language that explains rather than impresses, and honest about cost wherever it can be. It also needs to be properly accessible, because a meaningful share of legal clients are older or dealing with a disability, and because the sector is held to a higher standard than most. The result tends to look calmer than the competition, and calmer converts.
High street practices
Firms covering conveyancing, wills, family and probate for a local catchment.
Specialist firms
Practices built on one area where the site has to demonstrate depth quickly.
Growing practices
Firms adding solicitors or offices where the site no longer reflects the business.
Firms with a dated site
Practices whose reputation is far ahead of what their website suggests.
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Why it matters
What the site is actually being judged on.
Credibility, in seconds
Visitors decide whether you look like a serious firm long before they read a practice area page.
Clarity over cleverness
Plain explanations of process and cost convert better than any amount of polished marketing language.
Named people
Photographs and profiles of actual solicitors do more for trust than a decade of corporate copy.
Wondering where your own website falls short? Tell us what you are working with and we will tell you honestly, for free.
Get honest adviceWhat's included
What a legal website build includes.
Discovery
Which practice areas matter, who they serve, and what the site must achieve.
Design
Calm, professional layouts that avoid the panelled-office cliche of the sector.
Practice area pages
A proper page for each area, written in plain English rather than legal shorthand.
Team profiles
Real people, properly presented, because clients instruct individuals rather than firms.
Accessibility
Contrast, structure and keyboard access built in, not retrofitted after a complaint.
Hosting and support
UK hosting and a team you can ring when something needs changing.
Why Expect Best
A team that writes like humans.
Designed, not templated
Your firm looks like itself rather than like the four others using the same theme.
In-house Poole team
Design, build, content and search under one roof rather than passed between suppliers.
Support that continues
Trading since 2010 with 400+ clients. We host and maintain what we build.
You own it
The site, the domain and the content are yours, whatever happens between us.
Rather talk it through? Call 01202 237027 and speak to the team, or send us a message.
Send us a messageOur process
From first conversation to launch.
01
Discovery
We map the practice areas, the audience and what the site has to do.
02
Design
Layouts you can react to before any development begins.
03
Build and content
Developed properly, with help writing pages that read like a person wrote them.
04
Launch and support
Live, with training, and a team available afterwards.
Eight to twelve weeks is typical for a firm with several practice areas, and approvals usually decide the date rather than the build.
The exact timeline and cost depend on your project. Tell us what you have in mind and we'll come back with both, no pressure.
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Each day we facilitate
Real results we help our clients achieve, day in, day out.
What we build on
The platform follows the firm.
What matters is who updates it and whether it has to connect to anything you already run.
WordPress
The usual answer where your team wants to publish updates and articles themselves.
Custom builds
Where a client portal, secure document exchange or a specific workflow is involved.
Accessible by default
Whichever platform, the accessibility work is part of the build rather than an extra.
FAQs
Web design for solicitors FAQs
The questions law firms ask before starting a website project.
Where you can, yes. Price transparency rules already require it for some areas, and firms that explain cost clearly tend to get better-qualified enquiries and fewer time-wasting calls.
Only if the volume justifies it. For most high street firms, secure email and a clear process explanation do the job. We build portals when the chasing has become somebody full-time job.
More than most. Your clients skew older, the subject matter is stressful, and the reasonable adjustments duty applies. We build to a sensible standard as part of the work rather than selling it separately.
Our custom sites start from £1,600 plus VAT. A multi-practice-area firm with team profiles and content help usually lands above that, and we quote it properly rather than guessing.
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