Frequently asked questions

Get a professional email address at yourname@solicitor.law that forwards to your real inbox. You can also send from it using Gmail, Outlook, or Apple Mail (SMTP “Send As”). It's included on every tier — Starter, Growth, Authority and Bespoke — and continues for the lifetime of your hosting subscription. The key benefit: your email address stays with you forever, regardless of which firm or firms you practise through.

Yes. Lots of consultants split their work across two or more platform firms (e.g. one for litigation, one for non-contentious). At intake you can list every firm you practise through, with the SRA number for each. Your site and regulatory footer will show all of them — including logos where we have them — so clients see exactly who you're regulated through for each matter.

Every site includes a /card page — a mobile-optimised digital business card with a QR code. You can show the QR code at networking events; people scan it, see your details, and add you to their contacts instantly. It also generates Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes so you can save it to your phone. It's included on all tiers.

During registration, you choose your design in three steps: (1) Pick a style bundle (Classic, Modern, Editorial, or Bold), (2) Choose a colour theme (Forest, Navy, Slate, Burgundy, or Ink), (3) Select a font pairing (Classic, Modern, Editorial, Confident, or Refined). That's 100+ combinations, each one visually distinct. You see a live preview before you decide.

Yes. Email me and we can change your style bundle, colour theme, or font pairing. If you want a complete redesign, that's available as a separate service. Most changes turnaround within 48 hours.

Bespoke includes 20+ location-targeted pages targeting searches like '[practice area] solicitor in [city/region]'. Each page has AI-generated, location-specific content with proper schema markup. The number and targeting are determined during your Bespoke strategy call.

No. Your solicitor.law site is yours as a consultant solicitor. It's not linked to any platform firm's main website. If you change firms, add a second platform, or split work between several, your site, your email address, and your brand stay exactly where they are. That's the whole point.

Your site, email address, and brand stay with you. We update the platform firm details on your site (name, SRA number, logo). Your clients and referrers see the update; your email address yourname@solicitor.law keeps forwarding to your inbox, no matter where you practise.

No. You can run both. Many people use solicitor.law as their primary site and let the old one fade out. There's no obligation to take anything else down.

Yes. Custom domain setup is included on Authority and Bespoke tiers. On Starter and Growth it's a £49 one-off bolt-on. We handle the DNS configuration for you — just point your domain at us. The solicitor.law subdomain stays active too, so you always have a backup.

Cancel anytime through the Stripe customer portal. Your site goes dark at the end of the current billing period and your subdomain is held for 30 days before being released. Your setup fee is refundable if you cancel before launch; refundable at our discretion within 14 days of launch; non-refundable thereafter. Any content you originally provided (your bio, photos, specific text) remains yours — we'll send you a copy on request.

Yes. Every site includes proper disclosure that you are a consultant solicitor practising through your regulated platform firm (or firms), with SRA numbers, complaints procedure, and PII information clearly displayed. We also verify your name and SRA number against the SRA register at intake. Our founder is a practising solicitor subject to the same rules — so compliance is built in, not bolted on.

At intake we check your name and SRA number — and the name and SRA number of every platform firm you list — against the public SRA register. If anything doesn't match we flag it before your site goes live. It protects you, the platform, and the public.

Yes. We publish long-form guides at /guides (platform firms compared, fee splits, PII, leaving your firm cleanly, the first 90 days, and more) and shorter posts at /blog. They're free, written by Steven, and aimed squarely at consultant solicitors.

You provide the raw ingredients — your practice areas, a short bio or your LinkedIn URL, and any specific wording you want included. We shape it into website copy that reads well and works for search. If you'd rather just send your LinkedIn profile, that works too.

Your monthly hosting fee includes minor edits per quarter — phone, email, contact details, photo swap, single-line text changes — on every tier. Anything bigger is billed as a bolt-on: £25 per text edit beyond the quarterly allowance, £75 for a new page, £99 for an individual blog post, £149 for an annual SEO health check. If you want regular content help, the optional Content subscription (£49 / £99 / £199 per month) is available to Authority and Bespoke clients.

It depends on tier. Starter and Growth: within 48 hours of receiving your completed intake form. Authority: within 5 working days. Bespoke: within 14 working days, following a 1:1 strategy call with Steven before the build begins. Those aren't targets — they're what actually happens.

We build every site with strong SEO foundations — proper metadata, semantic HTML, schema markup, mobile-first design, and near-perfect Google PageSpeed scores (99 mobile, 100 desktop is typical). Authority includes advanced legal-service schema. Bespoke includes 20+ location-targeted pages and a full SEO strategy. We can't guarantee specific rankings (nobody honestly can), but the technical foundations will be right, the speed will be there, and the content will be written with search in mind.