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Codeeo provides law firm website development in Edinburgh for solicitor practices, solicitor estate agents, advocates and specialist firms across the city and the Lothians. We build sites whose structure follows Scottish practice: missives and Home Reports for property, executries rather than probate, Court of Session and sheriff court litigation, and guardianship and powers of attorney under Scottish legislation. Clients find the right page in their own terms, and your team keeps it current without a developer.
We work with Edinburgh firms remotely, holding discovery, design reviews and editor training by video call. The result is a site that ranks for Scottish legal questions, shows the regulatory information Scottish clients are entitled to, and sends each enquiry to the department that should handle it.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the website includes
Scotland has its own legal system, its own courts and its own terminology, and Edinburgh is where much of it is centred: the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary sit at Parliament House, and the Law Society of Scotland, Registers of Scotland and the Scottish Legal Aid Board are all based in the city. A firm website built on an English template talks about probate, exchange of contracts and the Legal Ombudsman, which confuses Scottish clients and weakens trust.
Search engines notice the difference too. People in Edinburgh search for executry solicitors, Home Report advice or a sheriff court lawyer, and a site that uses those terms accurately has a better chance of appearing for them. Our law firm website design in Edinburgh starts with the vocabulary of Scottish practice and builds the pages around it. The features below are a starting list; discovery decides which ones your firm needs first.
Separate pages for residential conveyancing, executries, wills and powers of attorney, family law, employment, commercial property and court work, each written in Scottish terms. Where clients cross the border, a short explainer sets out how the process differs from England without turning into legal advice.
Clients recognise their situation in the first heading they read.
Many Edinburgh firms sell homes as well as handle the legal work. We build property search with filters for area, price band and bedrooms, viewing request forms, and closing date notices, fed from your property software or the feed you already supply to ESPC and the portals.
Your own site shows the same listings as the portals, with your branding.
Plain pages explaining Home Reports, noting interest, closing dates and concluding missives, linked from every listing. Buyers moving to Edinburgh from England often need this most, and a clear explanation turns them into conveyancing clients.
Buyers understand the Scottish process and stay with your firm for the legal work.
Clear statements that the firm is regulated by the Law Society of Scotland, a complaints page explaining your internal procedure and the role of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission, and terms of business your clients can read before instructing you.
Scottish clients see the right regulator and the right complaints route.
For firms that take civil or criminal legal aid, pages explaining eligibility in general terms and pointing clients towards the Scottish Legal Aid Board's own guidance, with a contact form that asks only what the firm needs to check before an appointment.
Fewer calls from people asking whether you can help with legal aid.
One enquiry form with smart branches for property, private client, family and litigation, sending each message to the right team inbox or case management queue. Valuation requests for sellers follow a separate route to the estate agency team. The form explains that confidential details should wait until the firm confirms it can act.
Each department sees only its own enquiries, already sorted.
Profiles for solicitors, solicitor advocates and associates, with Law Society of Scotland accredited specialist status shown where a solicitor holds it, practice areas, languages and a direct contact button. Profiles also link to the articles each solicitor has written.
Clients can pick a named solicitor rather than a generic inbox.
Office pages for the New Town, Leith, Morningside or a Lothians branch, with structured data, consistent contact details and maps, so the firm appears for searches made near each office.
Each branch is visible to people searching nearby.
Templates built and tested against WCAG 2.2 AA, with readable type, strong contrast, keyboard access and fast loading on mobile data. Older clients arranging powers of attorney or executries often rely on magnification, so we test for it.
Every client can use the site, including those who rely on assistive tools.
A cookie banner that blocks analytics and advertising tags until consent is given under PECR, a privacy notice written for UK GDPR, and analytics configured so you can see which pages produce enquiries without tracking clients more than necessary.
Useful data for the partners, collected lawfully.
Who this is for
Edinburgh's legal market mixes long established partnerships in the New Town, solicitor estate agents serving every neighbourhood, commercial firms near the Exchange district and small specialist practices. Each needs a different balance between property listings, legal content and enquiry handling. We look at where your instructions come from now and which work you want more of, then plan the site around that. Students and young professionals renting in Marchmont or Gorgie, families buying in Corstorphine and businesses near Haymarket all arrive with different questions, and the navigation should reflect that.
Your website does two jobs: selling property and selling legal services. Buyers browse listings on phones at viewings, sellers want a valuation, and both groups need conveyancing. We combine property search, viewing requests and valuation forms with clear conveyancing and executry pages, so a buyer who finds a flat on your site also sees why your firm should handle the missives.
Listings bring traffic; legal pages convert it.
Families dealing with a death, or arranging powers of attorney for a parent, read carefully and often more than once. They need calm, structured pages, a clear explanation of confirmation and the executry process, and an easy way to ask a first question. We design for that reader, with generous type and no pressure. Guides can be published as accessible web pages with a printable version for relatives who prefer paper.
Tone matters as much as features here.
Businesses in the Exchange district and across the central belt choose firms on sector knowledge and named lawyers. We build sector pages, solicitor advocate profiles, insight articles on Scottish commercial and employment law, and a clean enquiry route that records the other party's name so conflict checks start early. Advocates and solicitor advocates appearing in the Court of Session can be presented with their court experience described in general terms.
A two or three solicitor practice in Leith or Bruntsfield needs a credible site quickly, with a structure that can take more pages as the firm grows. We build a compact site with good foundations: proper headings, local search, regulatory pages and a CMS simple enough to update between client meetings. Adding a department later means adding pages, not redesigning the site.
Working together
Most practices start with a fixed scope project for the new site and keep a monthly retainer afterwards for new pages, property feed changes and search work. Firms planning client portals or practice system integrations alongside the website can take a dedicated team. All work runs remotely from our offices in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, with written scope, a shared tracker and named contacts, so partners can review progress whenever suits them. Changes to scope are priced and agreed in writing before work starts on them.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
For most Edinburgh practices we recommend WordPress or a headless CMS, chosen by how many people edit the site, whether property listings are involved and which case management or estate agency software has to connect to it.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Scottish terminology, regulators and procedures throughout.
A Scottish firm's site should talk about missives, Home Reports, executries, confirmation, sheriff courts and the Court of Session, and name the Law Society of Scotland and the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission. English templates mention probate, completion and the Legal Ombudsman, which is wrong for most Scottish clients. We plan content and headings in Scottish terms from the outset and flag anything borrowed from an English site. Clients from England and overseas buying in Edinburgh benefit most, because the site can explain the difference before they reach the wrong conclusion.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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