Services · Website development · Law firm websites
Codeeo provides law firm website development in Dubai for advocates' offices, legal consultancies, boutique practices and international firms with a DIFC presence. We build sites that set out your practice areas, your lawyers and your thinking clearly in English and Arabic, rank for the matters you want to win, and pass each enquiry to the right partner with a conflict check already possible. The site is fast, accessible and easy for your marketing or business development team to keep current without calling a developer.
Legal clients rarely buy on the first visit. They read your profiles, check your credentials, look at what you have written and compare you with two or three other firms. The website is where that comparison is won or lost.
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What the website includes
Dubai's legal market is crowded and international. A company founder in Business Bay, a family relocating from Europe and a general counsel in a free zone may all search for the same practice area, but they need different answers. Under Federal Law 34 of 2022, the distinction between advocates who appear before UAE courts and legal consultants who advise also matters to how a firm describes its services, and clients increasingly ask about it.
We plan the site so each visitor finds the right practice, the right lawyer and the right next step without wading through a generic brochure. Practice pages explain what you handle and for whom. Profiles carry bar admissions, languages and sectors. Insight articles show depth on the questions clients actually ask. Every page ends with a measured call to action that suits a professional firm. Copy that describes your services is checked by your own compliance lead against the professional conduct rules that apply to the firm.
A structured set of pages for corporate, employment, real estate, family, banking, dispute resolution, arbitration and any niche you lead in, each with sub pages where the work divides naturally. Pages explain the matters you handle, the courts or forums involved and the types of client you act for.
Visitors and search engines both understand exactly what the firm does.
Profiles with qualifications, jurisdictions, rights of audience where they apply, languages spoken, sectors and selected publications. Each profile links to the practice pages that lawyer leads, and business development staff can update them without touching the layout.
Clients choose a person, not a logo, and the profile helps them do it.
A publishing section for articles on new UAE laws, DIFC and ADGM developments and practical guidance, with authors, categories, related practice areas and an approval step before anything goes live. Older articles can be marked as superseded when the law changes.
Expertise is visible, current and attributable to named lawyers.
Mirrored structure with right to left layouts, separate indexable URLs and hreflang tags. Legal Arabic is drafted or reviewed by a qualified legal translator, because terminology errors on a law firm site cost credibility quickly.
Arabic speaking clients and courts' users read the firm in their own language.
An enquiry form that asks for the practice area, the other party's name for a conflict check, urgency and preferred contact method, with a warning not to send confidential details at this stage. Submissions route to the relevant partner or intake team.
Enquiries arrive sorted and conflict checks can begin straight away.
Technical SEO, clean URLs, LegalService and Attorney structured data, internal links between practices, profiles and insights, and a Google Business Profile for each office. Content is planned around real search phrases for each practice rather than broad slogans. Pages follow WCAG 2.2 AA principles and stay light, so profiles load quickly on a phone between meetings.
The firm appears for the matters it actually wants to take on.
A page for each office, whether you sit in DIFC, Business Bay, Deira or a free zone tower, with address, parking and visitor access notes, opening hours and the lawyers based there. Each page matches its Google Business Profile, so name, address and phone are identical everywhere a client might look you up.
Clients find the right office and arrive at the right building on time.
Hardened hosting, HTTPS, form encryption, spam protection, admin two factor login and regular updates. We align handling of enquiry data with the UAE PDPL, and with DIFC or ADGM data protection law where the firm operates from those centres.
Enquiry data is protected in a way a law firm can explain to its own clients.
Enquiries can flow into the CRM or practice management system you already use, with source tracking so business development sees which practice pages and articles bring instructions. Event registration for seminars and webinars can sit on the same site.
Business development work is measured, not guessed.
Pages for client seminars, webinars and briefings with a registration form, plus a newsletter sign up that records explicit consent for each subscriber. Recordings and slides can be gated to registered attendees, which turns a talk by one of your partners into a lasting piece of content on the site.
Thought leadership produces contacts the firm can follow up with permission.
Who this is for
Law firm sites in Dubai range from a single page for a two lawyer consultancy to a multi office platform for a regional firm. The structure, the content effort and the approval process change with size and with the clients you serve. These four situations cover most of the firms we speak to, and each one gets a different plan rather than a template with a new logo.
You have built your reputation through referrals and want to be found by individuals and SMEs searching for help with employment, rental, family or commercial disputes. We build a focused site with clear practice pages, profiles of your advocates, Arabic and English content and an enquiry path that tells people what to expect. Local SEO for your office in Deira, Bur Dubai or Business Bay is part of the plan. We also explain on the site whether a matter needs an advocate with rights of audience or a consultant's advice, which saves both sides a wasted first call.
Clarity about what you handle wins more enquiries than a long list of everything.
Your clients are general counsel, funds and multinationals, often outside the UAE. They expect depth: sector pages, published thinking, named partners with credentials across jurisdictions. We build a content led site with a strong insights section, clear regulatory references and data protection handled under the DIFC regime where it applies. Where partners are admitted in several jurisdictions, profiles make that explicit so overseas clients see who can advise on what.
You lead in one area, such as construction disputes, arbitration, family wealth or employment. The site needs to prove that depth: detailed sub pages, case types handled, guides and articles authored by your lawyers. A smaller site with stronger content often outranks larger firms for specialist searches. We help you pick the handful of searches that matter most and build the site around them.
Your current site is slow, hard to edit or looks dated next to competitors. We audit what ranks and what is linked, plan a redirect map, move the content that still works and rebuild the rest. Partners review only the pages they own, so approval does not stall the launch.
Migrations protect rankings when redirects are planned before design starts.
How we work together
Most firms begin with a fixed scope project covering design, build, content migration and launch. After launch, a monthly retainer keeps the site maintained and adds practice pages and articles. Larger firms with an active marketing team sometimes take a dedicated developer for a longer programme. Cost is driven by the number of practice areas and profiles, whether Arabic is included and how much is translated, the depth of the insights section, the number of offices and the integrations with your CRM or practice management system. We set out how each of these affects scope in a written proposal, so partners can compare options before approving the budget.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We usually build on WordPress or Next.js with a headless CMS, chosen by how much your team publishes and who edits. Hosting, backups and security updates are set up in your accounts, so the firm keeps control.
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02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
The plan depends on practice areas, languages and approvals, and we fix it in discovery.
The build itself is rarely the slow part. Partner reviews, profile photos, bar details and Arabic legal translation take longest. In discovery we agree the page list and assign an owner to each section, then set delivery dates in writing. Firms that nominate one person to coordinate content and approvals launch noticeably faster than those where every partner reviews every page.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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