Professional Services
+88%
organic enquiries
Hartwell & Mercer
A litigation firm whose site said nothing specific. Seven practice area pages later, the enquiries are in scope.
- Practice areas
- Intake
- Compliance review
Professional services
You're being vetted before anyone calls you
Nobody hires a law firm or an accountant on impulse. They read three sites, form an opinion about which one seems most capable, and only then pick up the phone. Your site is the reference check you don't get to attend.
Professional Services
5–9
Weeks, typical build
Firm site with practice area pages.
0.0×
Median enquiry quality lift
Enquiries within practice scope.
6–8
Practice area pages
Median, one per real specialism.
Context
Web design for law, accounting, and consulting firms
Professional services buying is slow and comparative. A prospect is weighing expertise, relevance to their specific situation, and whether they'd want to sit across a table from you. That's a lot of judgement to support with a site that says "trusted advisors since 1994".
What actually persuades is specificity. Not "commercial litigation" but the kinds of disputes you handle, the size of matters, the outcomes you can describe within your professional conduct rules. Named people with real backgrounds, because clients hire individuals rather than firms.
Then a clear path to a conversation. Professional services enquiries are high-value and low-volume, so the site doesn't need mass conversion tactics — it needs the right visitor to feel confident enough to make contact, and enough qualification detail that the call is worth having.
The hard parts
What holds these firms back
Every sector has its own set. Naming them up front is how a brief stops being a wish list.
Interchangeable positioning
Six firms in a market all claiming experience, integrity, and client focus. Nothing on the page helps a prospect choose, so they default to price or proximity.
Practitioners hidden
Thin bios and stock photography, when the individual practitioner is the actual product. Prospects want to know who they'd be working with.
Conduct rules misread as silence
Advertising rules limit what you can claim, and firms often overcorrect into saying nothing specific at all. There's substantial room between prohibited claims and generic filler.
Practice areas that don't rank
One page listing eight service lines competes for nothing. Prospects search for their specific issue, and that needs its own page with real depth.
Unqualified enquiries
A bare contact form produces calls outside your practice area and below your minimum engagement, eating partner time.
Our answer
How we handle it
01
Positioning built from your matters
We interview partners about the work they actually do best and want more of, then write the site around that rather than around the full service list.
02
Practitioner profiles that carry weight
Real background, notable work, publications, speaking, languages, and a direct contact route. Photography specced properly even where we don't shoot it.
03
Compliant but specific
We work within your jurisdiction's advertising rules and find the substance that's still permitted — matter types, sectors, scale, process, and outcomes described appropriately.
04
A page per practice area
Each one built around the queries prospects actually search, with the questions they ask on a first call answered before they call.
05
Qualification in the enquiry
Structured intake that captures matter type, jurisdiction, and timing, routed to the right practitioner. Fewer wasted calls, better first conversations.
What we run here
Services that fit Professional Services
Not every service suits every sector. These are the ones that earn their keep in yours.
Proof
Projects in this sector
With the numbers, the timeline, and the parts that went sideways.
Three of us gave three different answers to what our studio was for. They wrote that down, showed it to us, and then made us pick. Uncomfortable meeting, right decision. Our enquiries are three times what they were and people arrive already knowing what we do.
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Professional Services, answered
It's a constraint we work within regularly. Bar and accountancy advertising rules generally prohibit guarantees, superlatives, and comparative claims — not describing your work. There's a lot of room between "best litigators in the state" and "we handle shareholder disputes in the $2m–$20m range." We'll draft within your rules and your compliance team reviews before publication.
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