Professional, Secure Website Design for Irish Barristers
Your Reputation, Digitalized
As a Barrister, your work relies entirely on your reputation. When a Solicitor mentions your name to a client, that client will Google you immediately. If they find nothing—or worse, a broken page—doubt creeps in. You need a digital presence that validates your standing.
The "Four Courts" Test
We build ultra-light Static Websites that load instantly on mobile data, ensuring your profile is accessible even in areas with poor signal like the Four Courts or CCJ.
Absolute Discretion & Security
No database and no plugins attached to your public site, so the usual way small sites get broken into simply is not there.
CV & Specialisms
Clean layouts that clearly list your areas of practice and Law Library details without clutter.
Zero Maintenance
No plugins to update, no security loops. It just works, forever.
We build it first — you pay nothing until you approve it. Prefer to own it outright? €599 once-off.
Secure Your Online PresenceClaim Your Name Online
Secure your domain (e.g., yourname.ie) before someone else does.
Have a question?
WhatsApp UsDoes a barrister actually need a website?
Not to find work in the way other businesses do. Your work comes from solicitors, from the quality of what you did last time, and from being the name that comes to mind for a particular kind of case. No website changes that, and anything that claims otherwise is selling you something.
What it changes is the moment after. A solicitor puts your name to a client. That client is on their phone before the meeting is over, searching the name, because they are about to make a decision that matters and they want to see who they are getting. If the search returns a directory line and nothing else, the impression is not neutral — it reads as unverifiable. The solicitor then has to do the reassuring that a page would have done on its own.
There is a second audience, and it is the one that pays. Solicitors looking for counsel in an area they do not brief often will search before they ring around. A page that sets out your practice areas, your courts and what you have written is how you get on that shortlist, from firms who have never met you. That is the whole business case: not lead generation, but being findable and credible at the two moments somebody is already deciding.
What am I allowed to say on it?
Less than a plumber, and a good deal less than a solicitor. What you may publish is governed by your professional code of conduct and the statutory framework around legal services, and those are not our rules to interpret for you. What we can do is write to the conservative side of them by default, and tell you where the line is that you should be checking.
The safe ground is factual and checkable. Year of call. Areas of practice, described in the language a solicitor would use. Courts and circuits. Degrees and professional qualifications. Publications, lectures, contributions to practitioner texts. Languages. Whether instructions come solely through a solicitor. None of that is marketing; it is the information a professional needs to decide whether to brief you.
What we leave out, without being asked: comparative claims about other counsel, anything resembling a success rate, outcome descriptions in matters that were not reported, testimonials of any kind, and words like "specialist", "expert" or "leading" where the code applying to you restricts them. Nothing here is legal advice on your own obligations — take the draft, read it against the current code, and tell us what to change. That is the normal way this goes and we build the wording you sign off.
What should be on a barrister's website?
Six things, and very little else. A short site that answers them beats a long one that does not.
Your name, and your year of call
The first thing anyone checks. Name as you practise under it, year of call, and the Law Library or chambers you work from.
Your areas of practice
Listed factually, in the terms a solicitor would use when looking for counsel. Note that some professional codes restrict words like specialist or expert — check the current wording that applies to you.
Education, qualifications and publications
Degrees, professional qualifications, further study, anything you have written or lectured on. This is the substance of a barrister's website.
How you can be instructed
That instructions come through a solicitor, and separately whether you accept work by direct professional access, if you do and if the rules applying to you permit it.
Courts and circuits you appear on
Where you actually work. A solicitor in Galway wants to know whether they are briefing someone who travels or someone Dublin-based.
Clean, correct contact details
Professional email, phone, and your Law Library details. No contact form that reads like a client intake funnel, and nothing that invites case detail from a member of the public.
Why does a simple CV site need to be fast?
Because of where it gets read. A solicitor checking counsel between matters, standing in a corridor in the Four Courts or the CCJ on whatever signal is left inside a stone building. A client searching your name in a car park before a consultation. Neither is on a desk with fibre, and neither will wait.
Most professional sites are slow for the same reason: a page-builder theme dragging in fonts, sliders, tracking scripts and half a dozen plugins to display four paragraphs of text. We build static HTML, delivered from a CDN, with no database query and no plugin stack between the tap and the text. Your page is text and a photograph, so it should be measured in tens of kilobytes.
The same architecture is why there is nothing to maintain and nothing much to attack — no admin login on the public site, no out-of-date plugin to be exploited. If you have a site already and want to see where it stands, put it through our free speed test, and look at the mobile figure rather than the desktop one.
What does it cost?
Published prices, nothing to chase. We build your homepage design first — you pay nothing until you approve it.
Most popular
Starter
€0 upfront
then €70€50/monthAutumn offerPay it over 12 monthsEnquire before 1 November. New customers pay €70/month from that date.
5-page site, hosting, domain, SSL, security, one content update a month and Google Business Profile setup. 12 monthly payments, then €15/mo optional.
Own it outright
Own It
€849€599 onceAutumn offerEnquire before 1 November. The price is €849 from that date.
Free hosting year 1, then €15/mo
The same 5-page site, yours outright. Care plan covers hosting, domain and small edits, month-to-month with no minimum term.
Practice areas & writing
Bigger Brochure
€1,199€900 fromAutumn offerEnquire before 1 November. The starting price is €1,199 from that date.
one-off, optional care plan
Up to 10 pages — a page per practice area, a section for published writing and lectures, and local SEO basics.
Full detail on our pricing page. If you run a firm rather than a practice at the Bar, our solicitor page is the closer fit, and this page explains why a name search might be returning nothing.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a barrister's website cost in Ireland?
€0 upfront and €50 a month covers a five-page site with hosting, domain, SSL, security, one content update a month and Google Business Profile setup, for 12 monthly payments — then it's yours. If you would rather own it outright it is €599 once, with the first year of hosting included free and an optional €15/month after that, no minimum term. A larger site with a page per practice area and a section for published writing is the Bigger Brochure plan, from €900. Full detail on the pricing page.
What am I permitted to put on a barrister's website?
Advertising by barristers in Ireland is more tightly constrained than it is for most businesses, and the constraints come from your professional code of conduct and the statutory framework rather than from us. We stay on the ground that is factual and verifiable: name, year of call, areas of practice, courts, qualifications, publications, languages, how you are instructed. We do not write comparative claims, success rates, case outcomes, or anything that reads as touting. Take the draft and check it against the current code and any regulations that apply to you before it goes live — we will change any wording you are not comfortable with.
Can I list cases I have appeared in?
Treat this carefully. Reported judgments are in the public domain, but a page framed as a track record can stray into implying outcomes, and client confidentiality and privilege still apply to everything that was not reported. Our default is to describe areas and types of work rather than to build a case list, and to leave the decision on any specific reference to you and the code you practise under.
Can I have client testimonials?
No — we do not write, solicit or invent testimonials for any client, and for a barrister they raise obvious professional and confidentiality problems on top of that. Your CV, your practice areas and your publications are what a solicitor is actually reading.
Do I need a website when I am already listed in the Law Library directory?
The directory listing establishes that you exist and that you are a member. It does not carry your CV, the detail of your practice areas or anything you have written. The pattern that matters is what happens after a solicitor mentions your name to a client: that client searches the name that evening, and what they find is either you or nothing.
Should the site be under my own name?
Yes. Your name is what people search, so a domain in your own name is worth having, and worth registering before somebody with a similar name gets there. We register and manage it as part of every plan.
How long does it take?
Usually a week or two. A barrister's site is short by design — most of the time goes into getting the CV and practice-area wording right rather than into building. We design the homepage first and you pay nothing until you approve it.
Is there anything to maintain?
No. The site is static files with no database and no plugins, so there is nothing to update and nothing to be exploited through an out-of-date component. When your practice areas change or you publish something, send it to us — one content update a month is included.
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