Barristers' Chambers Website Redesign
A structured redesign process for a set: discovery with your senior clerk and management committee, bulk member-profile migration, a BSB transparency check and a full redirect map — so nothing breaks and nothing gets lost.
Free, no-obligation review — including a first look at what your redirect map would cover.
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Chambers rarely redesign a website casually. There's institutional memory in the URLs solicitors have bookmarked, member profiles built up over years, and a management committee that needs to sign off before anything changes. A redesign done badly can cost a set its search visibility and its members' patience in equal measure.
Aethus runs chambers website redesigns as a structured process — discovery with your senior clerk and chambers director, an audit of what the current site gets right and wrong, bulk migration of member profiles and practice-area content with clerks' and members' sign-off, and a full redirect map so existing rankings and bookmarked links keep working at launch.
What you get
- Discovery with your senior clerk, chambers director and management committee before any design work starts
- A full audit of your current site, its structure and its search performance
- Bulk migration of member profiles and practice-area content, with clerks and members signing off before launch
- A BSB transparency compliance check built into the new site structure
- Accessibility testing to WCAG 2.2 AA
- A full 301 redirect map from every old URL to its new equivalent — no broken links at launch
- Training for clerks and administrators on updating the site after launch
How we run a chambers redesign
Chambers is a new sector for us, so here is the structure we use for redesigns of consultant-led practice websites, adapted to a set: the size of your membership and how much current content is worth keeping shape the detail. You get a real, agreed timeline at the scoping stage.
Discovery
We start with your senior clerk or practice manager, your chambers director, and enough of the management committee to agree priorities: which members and practice areas lead, how clerking should be presented, and what the current site is costing you in enquiries.
Design
We design the new site around that brief — member profile templates, practice-area structure, clerking and instruction routes — for your sign-off before any content migration begins.
Build and migration
We build the site and migrate member profiles and practice-area content in bulk from your existing pages, then send each one to the relevant member or clerk to check and approve.
Review
Chambers reviews the full site — every profile, every practice area, every redirect — before we agree a launch date.
Launch and training
We launch behind the full redirect map, then train your clerks and administrators on updating profiles and content themselves.
No broken links at launch
This is where website redesigns most often go wrong, and it's the part we treat as non-negotiable. Solicitors bookmark specific member profile pages; Google has indexed and ranked your current URLs; other sites and directories link into your site as it stands today. We build a full 301 redirect map — every old URL mapped to its new equivalent — published and tested before launch, and we crawl the new site for dead links before and after launch.
Member profile and practice-area migration
Member profiles are the part of a chambers site solicitors actually read, and they're usually the most time-consuming part of a redesign to get right. We migrate every profile and practice-area page in bulk rather than asking members to rewrite their own from scratch, then send each one back to the relevant member or clerk to check and approve before it goes live.
BSB transparency and accessibility, checked not assumed
A redesign is the moment to fix what the old site got wrong, not just carry it over in a new template. We check the new site against the BSB’s transparency requirements — pricing and quote information, areas of practice, VAT, complaints and Legal Ombudsman information, the regulation statement, and public access fees where they apply — and test it to WCAG 2.2 AA, so accessibility and compliance are part of the build rather than an afterthought.
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Frequently asked questions
How long does a chambers website redesign take?
We plan a chambers redesign at around eight to twelve weeks from discovery to launch, depending on member count and how much existing content needs migrating. You get a real, agreed timeline at the scoping stage rather than a moving one.
Will we lose our Google rankings when we redesign?
A redirect map protects most of it. Every old URL is 301-redirected to its new equivalent and tested before launch, so bookmarks keep working and most search value passes to the new pages. Nobody can guarantee rankings, but this avoids the common, avoidable losses.
Can you migrate our existing member profiles?
Yes. We migrate every member profile and practice-area page in bulk, then send them to your clerks and members to check and approve before anything goes live.
Who needs to be involved from chambers?
Typically your senior clerk or practice manager, your chambers director, and enough of the management committee to sign off design and content decisions — plus any member willing to check their own profile before launch.
Will the new site still meet the BSB's transparency rules?
Yes. Checking the BSB transparency requirements (pricing and quote information, areas of practice, VAT, complaints and Legal Ombudsman details, the regulation statement and public access fees) is part of the build, not an afterthought.
Do you redesign chambers websites currently built on WordPress or another platform?
Yes. We rebuild from whatever platform you're on now — WordPress, Squarespace or a bespoke system — onto a faster, custom-coded build, migrating your existing content and URLs across.
Barristers' Chambers Website Redesign
Free, no-obligation review — including a first look at what your redirect map would cover.
