Law firm website design for UK solicitors
Fast, clear websites for solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, built with the SRA transparency rules in mind. Practice area pages written around what clients search, a price page that meets the rules, and enquiry forms that work on a phone. Fixed price from £1,295.
- Price and service pages laid out the way the SRA Transparency Rules ask
- Complaints page with the Legal Ombudsman and SRA details
- SRA digital badge and regulatory details in the footer
- One page for each practice area, written around real client searches
- Enquiry and callback forms that work on a phone
- Google Business Profile and local SEO set up for each office
What clients look for on a law firm website
Someone looking for a solicitor is usually worried. They are searching things like “family solicitor near me”, “how much does probate cost” or “immigration solicitor Manchester legal aid”, mostly on a phone, and they will compare three or four firms before they call one.
In practice they want answers to four questions, in roughly this order. Can you help with my problem? Roughly what will it cost? Can I trust you? How do I get in touch right now? A good law firm website answers all four within a few seconds on a small screen. Many firm websites answer the first one well and bury the rest.
Pages a solicitor’s website needs
A page for each practice area. One page that says “we do family, property, wills and immigration” will not rank for any of them. Each area needs its own page with the questions clients ask, the steps involved, the typical timescale and a clear way to enquire. This is also where most of your Google traffic will come from.
A prices page. The SRA Transparency Rules require prices for certain services, and clients look for them even when the rules do not require it. We lay out each price with what is included, what is not, whether VAT is included and the likely disbursements.
People pages. The rules ask you to publish the experience and qualifications of the people who do the work and of their supervisors. Clients also like to see who they will be speaking to. A short profile with a photo works better than a long CV.
Complaints. Your complaints procedure, how and when a client can go to the Legal Ombudsman, and how to raise a concern with the SRA.
Contact and booking. A phone number that can be tapped, a short enquiry form, opening hours, a map for each office, and online booking for a first consultation if you offer one.
The SRA rules, in plain terms
The SRA Transparency Rules apply to every firm the SRA regulates. On the website, that means:
- Prices for the services listed in the rules, with what is included, VAT and disbursements
- The key stages and typical timescales for those services
- The experience and qualifications of the people doing the work
- Your complaints procedure, including the Legal Ombudsman and the SRA
- Your SRA number, and the SRA digital badge, which links to your entry on the SRA register
The services that need prices are residential conveyancing, uncontested probate, summary-only motoring offences, employment tribunal claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal, and immigration (excluding asylum) for individuals, plus debt recovery up to £100,000, defending unfair or wrongful dismissal claims, and business premises licensing for business clients.
The SRA checks firm websites and has taken action against firms that do not comply. You can see how your current site does with our free SRA website checker. It reads the page and lists what it can and cannot find.
Why speed matters more for law firms than you might think
Legal searches are competitive and the pay-per-click prices show it: law firm keywords are among the most expensive on Google Ads in the UK. When the paid results are that expensive, ranking in the free results is worth a lot, and Google favours pages that load fast on a phone.
The sites we build are static, which means there is no database to slow them down and very little to hack. They load quickly on a phone and score 90 or more on Google PageSpeed. A WordPress site with a heavy theme, a page builder and a dozen plugins often scores under 50 on mobile.
See your own firm in our designs
Open the Fitting Room for law firms, paste your current website address, and we put your own practice areas, SRA number and contact details into 13 law firm designs. It takes about 20 seconds and costs nothing.
What you get for £1,295
- Up to ten pages, built around your practice areas
- Price, people and complaints pages laid out for the SRA rules
- SRA badge and regulatory details on every page
- Enquiry form, click-to-call and online booking for consultations
- Titles, descriptions and structured data written for Google
- Google Search Console and Google Business Profile set up
- Redirects from your old site so you keep what you have already earned
Extra pages are £60 each and we can write them for £35 a page. Hosting and care is £39 a month and covers hosting, the security certificate, backups, updates, uptime checks and small text changes. You own the site once it is paid for.
Start with a free check
Send us your current website and we will reply within one working day with a short written report: what clients see on a phone, how fast it is, what Google can and cannot read, and anything missing for the SRA rules.
Questions people ask
How much does a law firm website cost?
Our fixed price for a law firm site of up to ten pages, with an enquiry form and online booking for consultations, is £1,295 plus VAT. Each extra page is £60, and we can write practice area pages for £35 a page. Larger firms with many offices or a client portal get a fixed quote.
Will the website meet the SRA Transparency Rules?
We build the pages the rules ask for: prices for the services covered by the rules, what is included and not included, typical timescales and key stages, the experience of the people doing the work, your complaints procedure with Legal Ombudsman and SRA details, and the SRA digital badge. You supply the prices and facts, and you stay responsible for them, but the layout and wording are clear and easy to find.
Which services need a published price?
For individuals: residential conveyancing, uncontested probate, summary-only motoring offences, employment tribunal claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal, and immigration (excluding asylum). For businesses: debt recovery up to £100,000, defending unfair or wrongful dismissal claims, and licensing applications for business premises.
Can you move our existing content and keep our Google rankings?
Yes. We move every page that is worth keeping, rewrite the weak ones, and set up redirects from every old address so Google and old links land on the right new page.
Do you work with legal aid firms?
Yes. Legal aid clients often search on a phone and need to know quickly whether you can help and whether they qualify. We put that answer near the top of each page.
How long does it take?
About two weeks from receiving your content, or three to four weeks if we are writing the practice area pages for you.
Not sure what your current site is missing?
Send us the address. Within one working day you get a short written report: speed, what Google sees, what customers see on a phone, and what we would fix first.
- PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals on mobile and desktop
- The apps and scripts costing you the most load time
- Titles, meta, structured data and indexing problems
- A short fix list in priority order, with prices