Building a Website for Your Law Firm? Go with Squarespace

Fix8 Media Directors on Why Squarespace Is Ideal for Lawyers’ Websites

2.27.20 Whether you run an established law firm with multiple partners or you are just starting your own law practice, building an effective, professional website that will get you noticed is key. Before you waste any more time looking for website solutions or obtaining astronomical quotes from web designers, take a gander at the Squarespace platform and how ideally suited it is to your needs.

Fix8 Media Squarespace website designers and developers have carved a niche in the legal field, having built dozens of Squarespace websites for law firms of all sizes. In the Q&A below, Creative Director and Squarespace Expert Josh Neimark, and Operations Director and Squarespace SEO Strategist Tina Snyder weigh in on why Squarespace is the clear choice for law firms looking to build new websites or redesign their existing ones.

Why do you recommend lawyers build their websites in the Squarespace platform?

Neimark: There are many benefits to building in Squarespace—from the professional templates that Fix8 Media customizes to suit our attorney clients to the built-in scheduling and marketing tools to the incredibly user-friendly CMS. Having worked with dozens of law firms to build their Squarespace websites, we’re in a unique position to advise on maximizing the Squarespace platform for your law firm’s particular needs.

Snyder: From an SEO standpoint in particular, Squarespace offers attorneys the opportunity to establish a presence online—and the potential to truly maximize that presence via a well-considered SEO strategy. At Fix8 Media, we have seen exceptional results for a number of our attorney clients with whom we’ve engaged in strategic SEO partnerships, reaching organic traffic rates as high as 70+% per month with our proven strategies.

Among the public there is a perception that Squarespace is more of an artists’ platform. What’s your take on that?

Neimark: While Squarespace does market heavily to the artist and entrepreneur, it’s an incredibly flexible platform with templates and features that are ideal for virtually any business. From our experience working with law offices of varying sizes, Squarespace has the design and development capabilities to suit their needs perfectly. We’ve built very modern, clean, simple 5-page Squarespace websites for start-up law firms looking to get established to extremely robust, multi-partner law firm websites with literally thousands of pages of blog content and a considerable amount of customization—and everything in between. Our experience has shown that the Squarespace platform flexes to each of our law firm client’s specific requirements.

Snyder: I think it’s really a misconception that Squarespace is only suited to artist websites. If you take a look at Fix8 Media’s portfolio, you’ll quickly realize how flexible the platform is to get the job done for clients in a wide variety of industries—from law firms to doctors to realtors to coaches! Each day at Fix8 Media we receive inquiries from people working in a number of fields who need professional, quality Squarespace websites for their businesses. Working within the platform itself, incorporating compatible third-party tools, and adding customizations when warranted, our creative team builds amazing Squarespace websites for businesses across industries every day!

What are some particularly unique aspects of the Squarespace platform that lawyers should take into consideration?

Neimark: Beyond the inherent aesthetic benefits to the platform are its incredibly intuitive user interface. Here at Fix8 Media, we feel strongly about empowering our clients with the tools to update and manage their websites post-launch. As an Authorized Squarespace trainer, I work one on one with clients to personally acquaint them with the CMS so they can make updates, blog whenever they want, and have the knowledge they need to take ownership of their website. We have many law firm clients who come to us with existing Wordpress websites and want to make the switch over to Squarespace because they have trouble making simple updates. When you have your law firm website built by Fix8 Media, you can be confident that you’ll leave here with the training and knowledge to keep it up to date and add content whenever you’d like.

Snyder: I second the value in having a website you can manage on your own. I’d add to that the fact that Squarespace is consistently upping its game, adding new and enhanced features to the platform. Two of note for law firms are the Scheduling tool. which enables lawyers to have an online scheduling option for consults, as well as the Email Campaigns tool, which can maximize marketing efforts. For those who take advantage of the blog features in Squarespace, having the ability to grow a list of potential and existing clients and stay top of mind with an email campaign fueled by one’s blog posts is gold!

Interested in building or redesigning your law firm website in Squarespace in 2020? Contact the Fix8 Media team!