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For firms where instructions begin on their own website: a presence that sets out practice areas and lets the intake process start in order.
The trigger
Why it usually gets rebuilt
Prospective clients attach contracts, termination letters and bank statements to an ordinary email — to the same address that receives marketing. And before anyone is allowed to reply, the inquiry has to be checked by hand for conflicts, using facts the firm arguably should not yet have read.
Typical pages
- Home
- Practice areas
- Our lawyers
- How an instruction works, and what it costs
- First contact
- Articles and commentary
- Careers and trainee placements
Features
What actually makes the difference
Not every website needs everything. These are the points that genuinely count in this trade.
Conflict details before facts
The form asks for the opposing party, the case reference and the court before it asks what the matter is about. That allows a conflict check without the firm taking in the substance of the case.
A secured route for documents
An upload with transport encryption, access control and an expiry date, instead of an attachment on an ordinary email. Whether that route is sufficient in a given matter is the firm's call — the technology supplies the means, not the judgement.
Practice areas with a named lead
Each area names the lawyer who runs it, with specialist title and year of admission. No success rates, no comparisons with other firms — the profession's conduct rules do not allow either.
Proposed times, not an open calendar
A freely bookable calendar rarely survives a day of court hearings. Clients propose windows, the secretariat confirms, and the decision stays inside the firm.
Articles carrying a date and an author
Every piece shows when it was written, by whom, and that it is no substitute for advice on the individual case. Superseded articles are marked as such rather than quietly deleted.
Mandatory disclosures in one place
Bar association, professional title and the state that conferred it, professional indemnity insurance and the applicable conduct rules, complete and linked. Whether they suffice in the firm's particular situation is for the firm to check.
Automation
What can run by itself
An inquiry becomes a file entry
First contact creates a record with date of receipt, opposing party and the responsible department. Whether it was accepted, declined or referred on is recorded in the same place.
An acknowledgement that sets expectations
The sender immediately receives confirmation stating that no retainer has yet come about and by when the firm will respond. That takes care of the chasing call the next morning.
Deadlines stay where they belong
The website creates no deadlines. It hands over the party details and the time of receipt; what belongs in the deadline diary is entered by the secretariat. Calculating limitation periods is deliberately not automated.
Uploads clear themselves away
Once a document has been moved into the file, it is deleted from the server. Anything left behind expires with the link, so no inbox full of client papers ever builds up.
Integrations
Types of system typically connected — which product exactly is something we work out in the call.
- Practice management software with files and deadline diary
- Document management
- Encrypted file transfer
- Scheduling across several calendars
- The lawyers' official electronic mailbox, kept deliberately separate
Budget
$7,700 – $16,500
Three lawyers and two practice areas sits at the lower end; a client upload, a genuinely bilingual presence and a maintained article series are what move it up.
Tell us what you have in mind.
Answer a few questions about your project. At the end you book an appointment and see a guide figure for the effort — free, without obligation and with no sales pitch.
- You'll hear back within 24 hours
- No sales pressure
- Fixed price before work starts