Web Design for Solicitors and Law Firms

What the SRA Transparency Rules require on your website

The SRA Transparency Rules are not optional extras. The current version came into effect on 11 April 2025. For a law firm website, the key duties are:

• Rule 1, costs information: if you publicise certain services, you must publish costs information for them. For individuals these include residential conveyancing, uncontested probate, immigration applications (excluding asylum), First-tier Tribunal immigration appeals, summary-only motoring offences dealt with at a single hearing, and employment tribunal claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal. For businesses they include defending those employment claims, debt recovery up to £100,000 and licensing applications for business premises.
• What the price information must cover: total cost (or an average or range), the basis of charges, likely disbursements, whether VAT applies and how much, what is included and excluded, key stages and likely timescales, and the experience and qualifications of the people doing and supervising the work. It must be clear, accessible and in a prominent place on the website.
• Rule 2, complaints: publish your complaints procedure, including how and when a client can complain to the Legal Ombudsman and to the SRA.
• Rule 4.1, regulatory information: an authorised body must display its SRA number and the SRA digital badge in a prominent place on its website.

We build each of these into the structure from the start, not as afterthought pages.

The SRA digital badge, installed properly

The SRA's clickable logo became mandatory on 25 November 2019. It is not an image you copy. You register through the SRA's badge page, which is run with its technology partner Yoshki, and receive code to add to your site. The badge checks your regulated status and shows the current date, and visitors who click it see an SRA-hosted page confirming you are regulated and what protections that brings.

We place the badge where clients will see it, typically in the site footer on every page and near the top of the home page, alongside your SRA number. We make sure it is not blocked by your cookie banner or content security policy, and we test it after launch. Letterhead and email footers have their own wording requirement under rule 4.2, which we can mirror in your email signature template.

Price pages clients can actually read

Price transparency only helps if people can follow it. We lay out each priced service with a short summary, a table of legal fees for common scenarios (for example by property value band in conveyancing), a separate table of likely disbursements such as search fees and Land Registry fees, and a clear VAT line. Then come the key stages, likely timescales, what is not included, and who will handle the matter, with their qualifications and experience.

Tables are built as real HTML tables, not images, so they work with screen readers and on phones. That matters for accessibility and for the SRA's 'clear and accessible' test. When fees change, you update the table in the editor without touching the layout.

Practice area pages that win instructions

People search for the problem, not the practice area: 'how long does probate take', 'settlement agreement solicitor', 'fixed fee conveyancing'. Each practice area gets its own page with a short answer to the main question, what you do, how fees work and who to speak to. Business clients get their own route through the site, so a company director is not wading through family law to find commercial contracts.

Our Business package from £500 + VAT includes up to 15 pages, copywriting, schema markup (LegalService and Person for key fee earners) and speed tuning. Larger firms with many offices, client portals or document upload systems get a fixed quote, and secure client apps can be built through our sister company at dijituldevelopments.co.uk.

Privacy, enquiries and confidentiality

Law firm enquiry forms often collect sensitive information. We keep forms short and tell people not to send confidential details until a conflict check is done. Submissions go over HTTPS to a named inbox, with no copies stored in the website database unless you need them. The privacy notice explains this in plain English, and the cookie banner blocks analytics until consent is given, as PECR requires.

If you trade as an LLP or limited company, the footer carries your registered name, number and registered office as the trading disclosure regulations require, alongside your SRA number. See prices or get in touch.

What you get

• Price and service pages built to the SRA Transparency Rules list of required details
• SRA digital badge installed site-wide, with your SRA number
• Complaints procedure page covering Legal Ombudsman and SRA routes
• Practice area pages for individuals and for businesses
• Team profiles showing experience and qualifications, as the rules require for priced work
• Footer with trading disclosures, regulatory statement and privacy notice

Prices and how it works

Websites from £250 + VAT, business websites from £500 + VAT and ecommerce from £750 + VAT. Small changes are £45 an hour + VAT. You get a fixed quote before we start.

1. Free chat

   Tell us about your business, who your customers are and what the website needs to do. No charge, no obligation.

2. Fixed quote

   You get a fixed price and a clear list of what is included, in writing, before anything starts.

3. Design

   We plan the pages and design the site around your customers, then share it for your comments.

4. Build and test

   We build it mobile-first, write or polish the copy, set up SEO foundations and test it on real phones.

5. Launch and hand over

   We launch, connect analytics and Search Console, and show you how to update it. You own it all.

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