Law Firm Web Design London

It depends on the package and on how many practice areas and offices the site covers. A Presence build is the quickest, Authority takes longer and Dominance longer again. Pages for several parts of London add to the work, which is why most London firms choose Authority or Dominance. You get a firm timeline on the proposal. Content is the usual cause of delay on a law firm website, so the practice area copy is planned at the start.

Yes, if the firm is regulated by the SRA and offers any of the services the rules cover. Those are residential conveyancing, uncontested probate, immigration applications and appeals other than asylum, summary only motoring offences, employment tribunal claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal, debt recovery up to £100,000 and licensing applications for business premises. For each one the site has to show the total cost or a range, the basis of the charges, disbursements, VAT, what is included, the key stages and likely timescales, and the experience and qualifications of the people who do the work. It also has to publish the complaints procedure. Every Proxima build sets this out in a clear and prominent place, which is the wording the rules use.

Yes. The SRA has required the digital badge since 25 November 2019, together with the firm's SRA number in a prominent place. The badge is the SRA's own embed and cannot be replaced by a picture of the logo. Your firm registers the website address in mySRA, the SRA's partner generates the code, and it is added to the site before launch. The SRA advises allowing at least 24 hours for the badge to be issued.

That is what the local SEO in the build is for. London clients search in two ways: by place, such as 'solicitors Harrow' or 'solicitors Croydon', and by the work, such as 'immigration solicitor London'. Your Google Business Profile is set up for the firm's exact address, each office and each area you serve gets a page with real local detail, and each practice area page is written for the search a client types. Rankings also depend on reviews and on links from other sites, which the SEO Growth Plan works on after launch.

Yes. A law firm website redesign starts with what the current site already earns: the pages that rank, the links that point to them and the enquiries they bring in. Those pages keep their addresses or are redirected one by one, and the redirects and launch checks are planned to protect the rankings the firm already has. The SRA transparency content is checked and corrected during the rebuild.

Yes. Most London firms are small: the Law Society's figures for 2022 show that more than nine in ten firms based in outer London had four partners or fewer. A sole practitioner, a high street firm and a boutique specialist firm each get the same practice area audit, SRA ready build and launch checks, with the structure of the site adapted to the size of the firm.

Proxima is an independent studio based in East London. A project runs by video call, phone and email, and you speak to the person doing the work at every stage.

Neda Yavari, the founder of Proxima, plans, designs, writes, builds and optimises every law firm website herself. The person you brief on the first call is the person who does the work and the person who answers your emails, usually within 24 hours.

No. Proxima works with solicitors and law firms across the UK, and Essex firms have their own page. London has a page of its own because its legal market is different: more firms in a smaller area, and clients who search by borough as well as by practice area.