The Solicitors Regulation Authority regulated 9,150 firms across England and Wales in 2024. Scottish firms fall outside that figure and answer to the Law Society of Scotland instead, which is a distinction the regulatory wording on a firm's own site has to get right.
Whichever it is, the buying process looks similar. In our experience somebody with a problem they did not plan for compares a few firms' sites in one sitting, working out who has handled this exact thing before and whether they will get a straight answer. Our view is that a legal website is mostly an evidence file with a contact form attached.
All of that decides the sitemap before anything is drawn. LegalService structured data then goes on the pages that describe the firm, so a search engine reads your address, hours and areas of law as facts instead of inferring them from prose. For the general build process, see web design. For the same one-topic-per-page structure applied to clinical work, see web design for dentists.