Project description
Two parts matter beyond the static pages. A publications section, where we put articles and short commentary on decided matters, so that someone still deciding whether to hire anyone can read something useful first and recognise their own situation in it. And a booking form where the visitor picks a free slot instead of guessing when the office picks up the phone, with a separate, properly protected way to hand over documents for review before the meeting. Most of our referral traffic opens the site on a phone, often on a weak connection, so the mobile layout and the loading time are requirements I will measure, not hopes.
Three things I ask you to build in as rules, not as options. Case descriptions are published only in anonymised form and only with the client's consent: names, dates, sums, places of work and any other detail by which a person could be recognised are stripped out before anything goes online. There will be no promises about the outcome of a case anywhere on the site — no "we win", no percentages of successful matters — because that misleads the reader and breaks the rules of the profession. And documents from clients travel through a protected channel with a stated, limited retention period, never as attachments to ordinary mail.
What the site must contain:
— pages by practice area, each with the service described in plain words and the order of work laid out step by step;
— lawyer cards: years in practice, areas handled, languages of work, a short professional biography;
— publications and anonymised case notes with search and filtering by area;
— consultation booking with a choice of time slot and confirmation sent to both sides;
— a secure document upload form with the retention period shown next to it;
— client reviews with a clear indication of what exactly is being reviewed;
— a mobile layout and measured loading speed on a slow connection;
— a simple editor so that we can add publications ourselves, without calling a developer.