We design and build websites for UK law firms, and a law firm’s site carries a duty most small-business sites never have to think about. The SRA decides some of what must appear on it, and prospective clients judge the firm on it before they pick up the phone. We build for both, at a price we publish: £499 to build the site, then £59 a month to host it, keep it updated and support it.
The Landscape
When we searched “law firm website design” in the UK on 2 October 2026, most of page one was galleries and round-ups: Dribbble, Behance, Pinterest and several “best law firm websites” lists. A handful of specialist legal agencies sat among them, and the one in first place doesn’t publish a price. So a good share of the people searching are still working out what a good firm website looks like, and the leading agency asks them to get in touch before they know what it costs.
The regulatory side gets less attention than it should. Under the SRA Transparency Rules, an authorised firm must show its SRA number and the SRA’s digital badge in a prominent place on its website, and must publish its complaints procedure there, including how and when a client can complain to the Legal Ombudsman and to the SRA. If the firm publishes that it offers certain services, residential conveyancing, probate and debt recovery among them, it must also publish the total or average cost, the basis of its charges and the experience of the people doing the work, clearly and somewhere prominent. The agency page ranking first didn’t mention any of it when we read it. We treat these as part of the build, with the wording left to the firm, as explained further down.
Common Challenges
- Price pages for conveyancing or probate written when the Transparency Rules came in and never revisited, while the fees themselves have moved on.
- The complaints procedure buried in a PDF linked from the footer, which nobody on the team could find quickly if a client asked.
- A site built by a designer who has since moved on, so adding a new fee earner or practice area waits until someone has time to do a favour.
- Enquiry forms that go to one partner’s inbox, with no record of which enquiries were answered and which were missed during a week in court.
- Practice area pages that all say much the same thing in the same words, so a search for an employment solicitor in your town has nothing specific to find.
- A layout designed on a desktop monitor that is slow and fiddly on a phone, which is where plenty of first visits now happen.
What We Build for Law Firms
For a new or smaller firm, it’s our standard small-business build: a site designed around your practice areas, up to 15 pages, laid out for phones first, with the regulatory pieces planned in from the start. Your SRA number and badge go somewhere prominent and the complaints procedure gets its own page, as do price and service pages for any work the rules cover. We test the contact form end to end before launch, so the first enquiry reaches you. The £59 a month covers hosting, SSL, daily backups, edits and updates, and support from the people who built it. It runs on a 24-month agreement, which is what makes the price possible; if you leave early the remaining months are payable, and you keep the site files and the latest backup. The full terms are on the start your build page.
If you’re setting up a new practice and want to do it yourself, the launching your website module of our free Law Firm Launch Programme walks through hosting, the core pages, the contact form and analytics step by step. This page is for when you’d rather hand the job to us.
For an established firm, the website is often the front end of something bigger: an enquiry form that should open a record in your case management system, a fee estimate worked out from your own scale, or a client log-in. That’s bespoke development, quoted after we’ve talked it through, and our page on client portals for law firms covers the log-in side in more depth. The nearest job we’ve done is for a legal membership body, where we rebuilt a large, content-heavy website end to end and connected it to their payment provider and their industry-specific CRM, so the whole thing works as one.
What Legmark Has Shown Us
We’ve been the development partner of Legmark, a marketing agency for law firms, since late 2021. We built its product, which benchmarks around 5,700 UK law firm websites and tells each firm where it stands and what to fix first, and in 2026 we rebuilt that platform and moved years of live data into it without any downtime. Sam Borrett, Legmark’s CEO, says they brought us in for the product and “went on to build our website too”. The full story is in the Legmark case study.
Building a product that measures law firm websites has left us with opinions about them. A site that loads fast on a phone and has a page worth finding for each kind of work you take on will do more for a firm than a striking homepage.
Our legal-sector builds so far are for the organisations that work alongside law firms, a legal-marketing company and a professional body, and we don’t have a gallery of solicitors’ brochure sites to show you. If a portfolio of firm websites is what you’re choosing on, the specialist legal agencies have one.
How We Work With Law Firms
Digital Royalty is a founder-run company in Portsmouth, set up in 2021, and you deal with the people who build your site rather than an account manager. We start from what you already have: your practice areas, your current fees, your complaints procedure and any site you want to move away from. You get a draft to review and nothing goes live until you’ve signed it off.
We don’t write regulatory wording or give compliance advice. Your COLP or compliance lead owns what the price, complaints and regulatory pages say. What we do is make sure each one sits where a visitor would look for it and is easy to change when your fees move.
If you want an agency to run the firm’s campaigns and ads month to month, a legal-marketing specialist will suit you better. We build the website and look after it, along with any systems it needs to talk to.
Talk to Us About Your Firm’s Website
Tell us about your firm and what your current site does or doesn’t do for you. We’ll come back with which of the two routes fits and what it would cost, and if a £499 site covers it, we’ll say so.
