Web Site Design, Marketing and SEO for Lawyers, A to J   

3 Internet
3Internet provides high quality web solutions and online applications using Microsoft .Net. They provide websites which are intuitive to use for both visitors and the people who care for them. The web management system includes opt-in marketing capability, automatically provides a full site-search, and includes the ability to automatically build pathways to related information using advanced metadata techniques. Sites are also search engine friendly to help people find the site.

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Aardvark Media Ltd
An Internet design and build company specialising in providing business and professional sites for Offshore companies and legal firms.

Runner-up of the e-LOTIES 2003 award for "Best Online Legal Services Site"
Active Lawyer
The team is made up of lawyers, technologists & designers dedicated to giving lawyers control of client communications using web sites, intranets, pass-worded extranets and email marketing tools. Solutions are powered by the Activelawyer content management and marketing tool which will cap your Internet costs considerably, ensure website content remains up-to-date, provide interactive web tools and register with search engines automatically. Activelawyer is 100% latest Microsoft. It can be developed as a web site for you by Go Interactive, or you can use it as a toolkit for your own development for web sites, intranets, pass-worded extranets and email marketing tools.

Avid Creative, previously Artery Stark
A design agency based in Farnham, Surrey that provides an integrated approach to design and marketing. The company's owner has over 20 years industry experience and offers design for websites, corporate identities, brochures, exhibitions and advertising.

Axiom Business Computers Ltd
Axiom has been delivering solutions and services to Legal Firms for over 21 years and Axiom Web Manager is their latest Web design product. It allows the user to control the content of their website on a daily basis, without the need for additional software or expensive training. It is straight forward to use and simplifies the process of keeping a website up to date. Axiom Web Manager is in use in a variety of industries, from Legal Firms to Motor Dealers, Manufacturers and Estate Agents.

BarnesGraham
There are 3 key elements to online marketing success. BarnesGraham offer the tools that deliver the greatest rate of return for each.
Search - they are experts in search engine optimisation (SEO) and pay per click (PPC). Search marketing is an essential tool to drive traffic to your website.
Websites - they design and develop web sites that deliver your goals, transactional (using an ecommerce solution) or otherwise. Traffic has no value unless your visitors become customers.
email marketing - their email marketing expertise will build greater value from your customer base. They use eCRM techniques to generate revenue, build loyalty and turn customers into advocates.

Berners Marketing, run by Sue Bramall, former Head of Business Development at Pinsents Solicitors, can provide firms with a full range of business development and marketing support. Services include the development of web sites and on-going content management with a regular supply of articles, written by a panel of solicitors and barristers. In addition they provide email marketing solutions for e-newsletters, events promotion and online client care surveys. Recent web sites include:

Bite Digital Ltd
Bite Digital Ltd (formerly Bite IT) is a Manchester based search engine optimisation (SEO) and web site design agency formed over 10 years ago, offering specialist services for the legal sector. Services include search engine optimisation and web site design for medium to large practices with specialist solutions for Content Managed Web sites, Intranets and Extranets with staff and client secure access to documents. The national client base is serviced from the head office in Manchester, with representation in London and Dublin.

Blueprint
Blueprint is a Microsoft Certified Partner with over six years' experience in developing desktop, client-server, web and mobile systems for SMEs and corporate departments, including integration with other systems. Blueprint's proven project management processes provide high quality systems within predictable budgets and schedules. Blueprint specialises in data-driven sites that put chambers in control of their own content without the need for special software. Full design services include advanced Macromedia Flash development.

BriefClick Solutions Limited
Briefclick was formed by a team of lawyers and web programmers in 1999 to provide IT consultancy for lawyers including web sites, online case-tracking and intranets. They are specialists and only act for lawyers. They provide everything from a simple website to a full blown online instruction and case tracking system linked to your case management system (e.g. Solcase, Visualfiles, Videss). Briefclick specialise in providing consultancy for all web-tracking services including linking case management systems to online gateways such as XIT2 (Spicerhaart, C&G), Simply Conveyancing, Home of Choice and MortgageStream. Services include online case tracking, online reporting, online instruction, HIPS preparation, Bespoke websites, Solcase/Visualfiles consultancy and complete online portals (with optional link to case management).

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CLT totalSOLUTION is a complete website service for firms of solicitors in England and Wales, providing everything needed to market a law firm online. They specialise in building websites for solicitors, offering a comprehensive range of services suitable for law firms without a website and those who already have one. There are lots of designs to choose from. Prices start from £149 per month plus VAT for CLT Subscription Members (£179 for Non-Subscribers) and There is a minimum contract period of 12 months.

ClearPeople
ClearPeople is a London based provider of advanced web solutions and services to the legal sector. Their team of designers, developers and consultants are experienced in providing law firms with web development and online marketing services. Their content management system, ClearControl, provides law firms of all types and sizes with the power to easily manage websites, Intranets or Extranets without the need for expensive support or development.

Conscious Solutions
Conscious Solutions is 100% focused on the needs of the legal profession, providing creative solutions in websites, CRM, marketing and intranet solutions for the legal sector. They provide a mixture of "technology", "content" and "services". Their website technology includes a full content management system so it is easy for a law firm to update the site. Timely legal content is available including legal news stories for the site, updated by Conscious Solutions, and there are services available like search engine optimisation, a PR service and email newsletters. Law firms can "pick and mix" from these services to suit their particular requirements. CRM and Intranet software solutions are also provided using SugarCRM, a Commercial Open Source CRM solution which means the software is free of any license fees. Intranet solutions are provided using Intranet DASHBOARD, a market leading out-of-the-box intranet solution costing from £2,450 and in use by over 800 businesses worldwide.
A sample of their 220+ clients include:

emis intellectual technology
specialises in web design for law firms, and does not design websites for anyone else. The dedicated web team can provide you with as simple or as creative a site as you require from stylish information presentation to interactive features, for example instant online conveyancing quoting, HIPs or other status portals. emis can also provide bespoke content management systems to allow easy maintenance of website content by practice staff.

Enstar Ltd.
We specialise in producing World Class websites for the legal profession with built-in secure communication systems. The dynamic websites provide many features including forum, news, profiles and diary facilities - you will find full details at justlawsites.com. Update and edit your website using our low cost Virtual-Magic system. No specialist skills or software required.

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Fanore Software, based in Fanore, County Clare, Ireland, provide publishing and management tools. In particular, they offer a simple web management suite suitable for the legal profession that combines easy to use content production tools requiring basic computer skills (word processing etc.) and a full auditing trail that enables suitably qualified personel to review and approve content changes before they are published online. They also provide a range of document indexing and retrieval services that can be used on an intranet.

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Great Legal Marketing
Great Legal Marketing is a website that takes the best marketing ideas from outside the legal industry, swipes them, adapts them and deploys them for solicitors and law firms. There is also an exclusive marketing newsletter.
Consulting clients include

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Hallam Communications Ltd
Hallam Communications is a leading provider of Internet marketing consultancy and training services. They provide or assist with search engine optimisation, web design, Pay Per Click marketing, local search, blogging, Online PR, the necessity of inbound links and exceptional copywriting. The company is run by Susan Hallam, an independent business consultant specialising in web marketing strategy and tactics, customer relationship management and the business impact of emerging Internet technologies.

Hubbard One
For more than eight years Hubbard One has been the industry leader in the development of Web applications for law firm marketing and business development in the USA, serving more than 50% of the largest U.S. firms. The company is now part of the Thomson Elite group and is also working with several major UK firms. "Hubbard's award-winning Web sites, extranets, intranets, and hosting services increase effectiveness and efficiency."

Hyperlink Interactive
One of the UK's largest new media agencies offering consultancy, usability, creative, development, support and hosting. Clients are across a range of sectors and include a number of major legal clients. Work includes Internets, intranets and extranets as well as emerging technologies.

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Irwin Associates has 24 years experience of working with legal IT systems and now also provides web development and design services for law firms, small businesses and community organisations.

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Joka Design
Joka Design offers an individually tailored design service aimed specifically at law firms and barristers' chambers. The company is a 'one-stop-shop' capable of handling highly creative studio projects such as logo, brochure and website design at sensible rates, and will also take care of copywriting and marketing advice, advertising artwork supply and liaison with publications, print sourcing and supervision , exhibition display, photography and website technical development with advanced functionality.