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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

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes

NEWS
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Andy Burnham's brand of 'Manchesterism' could offer fresh thinking on legal aid and access to justice if it reaches Westminster, according to Roger Smith, NLJ columnist and former director of JUSTICE
The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition
The legal profession is undergoing a fundamental shift from selling services to creating technology-enabled products, according to Professor Luke Mason, Head of School of Law at Regent's University London
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