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25 November 2022 / Andy Cullwick
Issue: 8004 / Categories: Features , Profession , Marketing , Legal services , Technology
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Window-dress to impress

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How good is your website? Andy Cullwick explains why it should always be a work in progress
  • The growing importance of websites for businesses, and for law in particular. Despite most firms investing in IT and online marketing, there are still basic errors being made.
  • Some top tips, including making websites mobile-friendly and fast, keeping on top of broken links, and demonstrating expertise, authority and trustworthiness (EAT) which Google uses to determine how highly to rank a page.

It has been more than 30 years since the very first webpage went live—aptly enough with instructions on how to use the World Wide Web. However, even its creator, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, could not have foreseen the future and the seismic effect his invention would have on all our lives.

The business of law, for example, is now largely—if not wholly—done online. Clients no longer need to see or even be in the same location as their lawyer.

But while having a website is the norm, how many are actually fulfilling their potential? A good website requires effort and

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

Private wealth and tax team welcomes cross-border specialist as consultant

Freeths—Michelle Kirkland Elias

Freeths—Michelle Kirkland Elias

International hospitality and leisure specialist joins corporate team as partner

Flint Bishop—Deborah Niven

Flint Bishop—Deborah Niven

Firm appoints head of intellectual property to drive northern growth

NEWS
Talk of a reserved ‘Welsh seat’ on the Supreme Court is misplaced. In NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC explains that the Constitutional Reform Act treats ‘England and Wales’ as one jurisdiction, with no statutory Welsh slot
The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
A year after the $1.5bn Bybit heist, crypto fraud is booming—but so is recovery. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Holloway, founder and CEO of M2 Recovery, warns that scams hit at least $14bn in 2025, fuelled by ‘pig butchering’ cons and AI deepfakes
After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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