# Websites for solicitors

> Websites for law firms that route someone in a difficult situation to the right department quickly, and are honest about costs.

- Source: https://nerdsharks.com/industries/solicitors
- Publisher: Nerdsharks (Exeter, Devon, UK)
- Updated: 2026-09-27

There are 13,170 solicitors’ firms across 373 UK local authorities (ONS UK Business Counts, SIC 69102, 2025, OGL v3.0).

## How customers choose

Almost nobody visits a solicitor’s website casually. They are buying a house, ending a marriage, dealing with a death, or facing something that has gone badly wrong. They arrive stressed, often outside working hours, and they want to know whether you handle their specific matter and roughly what it will cost. Conveyancing behaves differently from every other legal service - it is genuinely price-shopped, quoted online, and lost to whoever answers fastest. Family and probate clients are not price-shopping; they want reassurance and a named person.

## What most websites in this trade get wrong

Law firm websites are organised around the firm’s departments rather than around what has happened to the visitor. Someone whose father has died has to work out that they need "private client". Writing pages around the situation, in ordinary language, is both kinder and far more findable. The second failure is refusing to indicate cost anywhere - for conveyancing this loses the enquiry outright, and the SRA transparency rules require price publication for several common services in any case.

## What the website has to do

- **Conveyancing quote request** - High volume, genuinely price-shopped, and won on speed of response.
- **Consultation booking for family and probate** - Relationship-led matters where reassurance converts, not price.
- **Route the visitor to the right department fast** - A stressed visitor will not navigate an unfamiliar structure.

## Pages

- **Home** - Route by situation, not by department name.
- **Conveyancing** - With an instant quote tool.
- **Wills and probate** - Written for someone recently bereaved.
- **Family law** - Careful, plain and reassuring.
- **Employment law** - Often urgent and deadline-bound.
- **Our fees** - Required by SRA transparency rules for several services.
- **Our people** - SRA numbers and named solicitors.

## Features that matter

- **Navigation organised by situation rather than legal department** - Clients know what has happened to them, not which department handles it.
- **Conveyancing quote calculator** - Conveyancing is genuinely price-shopped and an instant quote wins the enquiry.
- **Price transparency compliant with SRA rules** - A regulatory obligation for several common services, not an option.
- **SRA registration number and firm details displayed** - Required, and a meaningful trust signal.
- **Plain-English writing throughout** - Legal language actively excludes the people the site is written for.

Trust signals: SRA registration; Named solicitors with specialisms; Published fee information; Professional indemnity cover.

Seasonality: Conveyancing follows the housing market, peaking in spring and early autumn. Family enquiries rise sharply in January.

## Local authorities with the most

| Local authority | Businesses |
|---|---|
| City of London | 510 |
| Westminster | 405 |
| Camden | 360 |
| Birmingham | 350 |
| Manchester | 345 |
| Glasgow City | 245 |
| Leeds | 190 |
| Barnet | 180 |
| City of Edinburgh | 165 |
| Cheshire West and Chester | 160 |

## The offer

- **Monthly**: £299 upfront, £99/month (the upfront is a setup fee), 12-month minimum term. We build it, host it and look after it - and after 24 monthly payments, it is yours.
- **Own It**: £1,795 upfront, £49/month, no minimum term. Buy the website outright. It is yours to keep, move or cancel.
- **Pro**: £6,950 upfront, £299/month, 12-month minimum term. No limits. For large, multi-site and fast-growing businesses.
- Payment: The setup fee is paid when you book, and it starts the design. Monthly fees are collected by Direct Debit, covered by the Direct Debit Guarantee, from the day your site goes live.
- Guarantee: You see your finished design on your phone and approve it before anything goes live, with two full rounds of changes included. Nothing launches until you are happy with it. The Monthly plan runs for 12 months from launch.
- Bolt-ons: Google Business Profile management £29/month; Local SEO pack £49/month; Business email £5/month. Coming soon, not yet on sale: Missed-call text back, Review booster.
- VAT: We are not VAT registered, so there is no VAT to add to these prices.

## Questions

### What can we legally claim on a healthcare or legal website?

Less than most people assume. Advertising rules restrict claims about outcomes, and professional regulators add their own requirements on price transparency and registration details. We build to those constraints rather than around them, and we will tell you if something you want to say is likely to cause a problem.

### Should I put my prices on my website?

Almost always yes. Hiding prices loses more enquiries than it protects, because people assume the worst and go to a competitor who publishes theirs. If your pricing genuinely varies, publish a range and explain in one sentence what moves it - that converts far better than "contact us for a quote".

### How do I look established without exaggerating?

Name your people, show your qualifications and registrations, be specific about who you work with, and publish something that demonstrates you know what you are talking about. Vague claims about excellence read as filler; specifics read as competence.