Barrister Website Design
A personal website for a practising barrister, alongside your chambers profile — built for how instructing solicitors, and for public access barristers their lay clients, actually search for counsel.
Free, no-obligation review — including public access compliance, where that's part of your practice.
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A chambers profile shows a solicitor you exist. It rarely does justice to your own practice, your reported cases, your publications, or the specific way you want to be found online. Many barristers — particularly those who take public access instructions — need a personal site that works alongside their chambers page, not instead of it.
Aethus designs personal websites for individual barristers: a practice-focused profile with your specialisms and notable cases, SEO built around the searches that actually reach you, and — where public access work is part of your practice — a clear, compliant explanation of what public access means and how a lay client can instruct you directly.
What you get
- A personal profile alongside your chambers page — call year, specialisms, notable cases and publications
- SEO built around the specific searches that reach your practice
- For public access barristers: a clear, compliant explanation of what public access means and how to instruct you
- Fee transparency and indicative pricing presented correctly for public access work
- Designed within your chambers' branding and policy on members' personal websites
- Fast, GDPR-compliant enquiry handling
A personal site that complements your chambers profile
A shared chambers page has to represent every member fairly, which means no single barrister gets much room. A personal site has none of that constraint — full space for your own specialisms, your reported cases and judgments, your publications and speaking, and the specific searches you want to rank for, sitting alongside (not competing with) your chambers profile.
Public access, explained properly
The public access (direct access) scheme lets members of the public and some organisations instruct a barrister directly, without going through a solicitor first — but it comes with real eligibility limits and disclosure obligations, and getting the explanation wrong on your website risks misleading the client you are trying to reach.
What public access means
We explain, in plain terms, that a client can instruct you directly rather than through a solicitor, and what that does and does not cover for their matter.
Eligibility and how to instruct
We set out which of your practice areas accept public access work, that only barristers registered with the BSB for public access work may accept such instructions, and the practical steps a client takes to approach you.
Fee transparency
Every self-employed barrister must publish how to request a quote, their usual pricing models, the areas of law they most commonly practise, whether fees include VAT, complaints information and a regulation statement. For public access work we add the indicative fees the BSB requires for specified services.
Working within your chambers' policies
Many sets have policies covering members' personal websites — branding, disclaimers, what may and may not be said about chambers on a page they don't control. We check your chambers' policy before we design anything, and where a point isn't settled, we raise it as a question for your clerks rather than assuming an answer.
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Frequently asked questions
Do barristers need their own website?
Not always — a chambers profile may be enough on its own. A personal website earns its cost when you take public access instructions, want SEO built around a specific specialism, or want more space than a shared chambers page allows.
What must a public access barrister's website include?
It must explain that clients can instruct you directly without a solicitor and which practice areas you accept public access work in, and publish indicative fees for specified services, on top of the pricing, VAT, complaints and regulation information the BSB requires of every barrister.
Can I have a personal website if I'm a member of chambers?
Usually, yes — but many sets have policies on members' personal websites covering branding and what may be said about chambers. We check your chambers' policy first and design within it.
Who can accept public access instructions?
Only barristers who have completed the BSB's public access training and are registered with the BSB to do public access work — not every practice area is suitable for it, and some matters still need a solicitor involved.
Do you build SEO into a barrister's personal website?
Yes. We build the site around the specific searches that reach your practice — by specialism, by seniority and by the issues you are known for — alongside the personal profile itself.
How is this different from my chambers profile?
Your chambers profile has to serve the whole set fairly; a personal site is built entirely around your own practice, with room for content, cases and SEO a shared chambers page can't accommodate.
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