For Canberra solicitors and small firms, whether you're in Civic near the Knowles Place courts, out in Belconnen or Tuggeranong, or taking calls from Queanbeyan: a page for each area of law you practise, profiles that match your Law Society listing, and a first-contact form that suits a sensitive legal problem.
People looking for a lawyer in the ACT usually search for the problem and a district: “family lawyer Gungahlin”, “wills Woden”, “APS code of conduct lawyer”. Some are public servants worried about their job, some are buying a leasehold block, some live over the border in NSW. Each of them needs to see quickly that you handle their kind of matter, under the right jurisdiction, and how to get in touch.
A Canberra practice often deals with ACT law, Commonwealth law and, for clients in Queanbeyan or Googong, NSW law. Each area you practise gets its own page in your words, and that page can say plainly which of those it covers, so a reader in Jerrabomberra knows before calling whether you can act on their estate or their purchase.
The Law Society of the ACT's Find a Firm search works by area of practice and suburb or postcode, and its Find a Lawyer search can filter by language spoken. We set up your site so the areas, suburbs and languages on each profile match what you've listed with the Society. A client who checks one against the other then finds the same story.
More than a third of all Australian Public Service employees work in Canberra, and their workplace disputes run under the Public Service Act rather than only the Fair Work Act. If you act in Code of Conduct investigations, review applications or terminations, a page for APS employees, separate from your general employment page, speaks to the people actually searching for that help.
A short form: the kind of matter, the district or town, a safe number and a time to call, and any court or tribunal date already set. Nothing more until you've spoken. If you offer a first phone call at no charge, the form can say so in your own words, with how long it runs and what it covers. For family violence work we add a quick-exit button, with a note that it doesn't clear browsing history.
Every home in the ACT sits on a Crown lease rather than freehold title. If you do conveyancing or property disputes, a page that explains what the lease means for a buyer or seller, in your words, answers a question interstate buyers are likely to have. We lay it out; you supply and approve the explanation.
Say whether you meet in Civic, at a suburban office, by phone or by video, and give “from” fees for fixed-price work such as a simple will if you publish them. We can link a booking tool you already use, such as Calendly, or build a booking and payment system into the site, quoted for your practice.
A separate system, the same advertising rule. The ACT isn't part of the Legal Profession Uniform Law that applies in NSW, Victoria and WA. Solicitors here practise under the territory's Legal Profession Act 2006, and the Law Society of the ACT is both the licensing body that grants practising certificates and the body that receives and investigates complaints about solicitors. Its guidance for new practitioners says that applying for a practising certificate makes you a member of the Society, and that the certificate type depends on your employer: private, in-house, government or volunteer. The conduct rules come from the Society too. The Legal Profession (Solicitors) Conduct Rules 2026 took effect on 1 July 2026, replacing the 2025 rules. Rule 36 reads the same as it does interstate: advertising must not be false, misleading, deceptive or offensive, and only a solicitor accredited by the relevant professional association may use the words “accredited specialist” or post-nominals derived from them. How that rule plays out on a website is covered on our Sydney lawyers page. If one of your solicitors is accredited through an interstate scheme, such as the Law Society of NSW's, the profile can name the body that granted it. We set out accreditation on the profile of the solicitor who holds it, in the exact form you give us; questions about wording go to the Law Society, not to us.
Where Canberra clients go to court. The ACT Supreme Court and Magistrates Court share the ACT Law Courts building at 4–6 Knowles Place in Canberra City. Family violence, personal protection and workplace protection order applications are lodged at the Magistrates Court, where Legal Aid ACT has an office that can help applicants complete their application, and the courts' pages point people to the Domestic Violence Crisis Service's 24-hour line. Family law and federal matters go to the Nigel Bowen Commonwealth Law Courts Building on the corner of Childers Street and University Avenue, beside the ANU, which houses both the Federal Court and the Federal Circuit and Family Court registries. The ACT Courts site currently carries a notice about construction work affecting access, so we link to the courts' own pages for directions rather than writing details into your site that could go out of date.
Matters that work differently here. ACT land is leasehold: a residential Crown lease usually runs for 99 years, the land may only be used for the purposes the lease authorises, and a lessee can apply to the Territory Planning Authority for a further lease during the term. Motor accident claims run under the Motor Accident Injuries scheme, where anyone injured in an ACT accident can apply for defined benefits regardless of fault, but a common law claim is open only to people injured through someone else's negligence who meet a threshold, the main one being a whole person impairment of at least 10%. For APS employees, the Merit Protection Commissioner can review Code of Conduct decisions, while a termination goes to the Fair Work Commission instead. If you work in these areas, a page for each, written by you and linking to the official source, tells a reader you know the territory's system.
Districts and the NSW side of the border. ACT planning divides Canberra into districts such as Belconnen, Gungahlin, Inner North and City, Inner South, Woden, Weston Creek, Molonglo Valley and Tuggeranong, and those are the names people put into a search. Queanbeyan, Jerrabomberra, Googong and Bungendore are in NSW, where the Queanbeyan Local Court sits at 2 Farrer Place. If you take NSW matters, a page for those clients that names the Queanbeyan courthouse is more useful to them than a line saying you cover the region.
Working with us from Adelaide. We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and build sites for Canberra firms by phone and email. Adelaide is half an hour behind Canberra all year, since both cities observe daylight saving. We haven't yet built a site for an ACT law practice: our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and the closest to legal work is Resolve Forward, a Sydney family dispute resolution practice.
Neither site belongs to a law firm or to an ACT business. What carries over is the structure: priced services with a careful intake for people in conflict, and a professional's credentials set out beside a private first conversation.
A Sydney practice helping separating families resolve disputes without going to court. Six service pages each explain one option, packages are priced and booked online, and a five-step intake collects the history before the first session. A Canberra family law or mediation practice could use the same pattern for a fixed-fee first appointment.
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A Melbourne specialist anaesthetist who coaches doctors in confidence. Her credentials sit on their own about page and a discovery call can be booked from anywhere on the site, the way a solicitor's profile can lead straight to a first phone call.
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A sole practitioner: the matters you take on, the jurisdictions you cover, your admission details, how you charge and a short enquiry form, all on one page.
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Home, a page for your main practice area (family law or APS employment, say) and an about page with profiles, any accreditation and how first meetings work.
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Separate pages for family law, wills and estates, leasehold conveyancing, motor accident claims or NSW clients, plus profiles, a fees page and court directions.
The regulator and the Act are different, but the advertising rule isn't. The Law Society of the ACT licenses solicitors under the Legal Profession Act 2006, and its Conduct Rules 2026 include the same rule 36 found interstate: no false, misleading or deceptive advertising, and “accredited specialist” only for those accredited. We lay out your words; the Society's guidance is the place to check particular claims.
On that solicitor's profile, in the exact wording and post-nominals the accrediting body allows, and naming the body that granted it, such as the Law Society of NSW. Accreditation belongs to the individual, so we don't present it as the firm's. You confirm the wording with the accrediting body; we place it as supplied.
Yes, on the pages where they matter. Criminal, family violence and estate clients mostly deal with the ACT Law Courts at 4–6 Knowles Place, while family law clients go to the Commonwealth Law Courts on Childers Street. Naming the right building on each practice page saves a confused phone call, and we link to the courts' own directions because access is currently affected by construction work.
It can, with a page for NSW clients that says which matters you take on there and names the Queanbeyan Local Court at 2 Farrer Place if you appear there. We only add pages for work you actually do, and you confirm that what the page says about practising in NSW is right for your firm.
Yes. We can link a tool you already use, such as Calendly, or build booking and payment into the site, which we quote for your practice once we know how your appointments work. The Resolve Forward site shows the kind of priced, bookable first step we mean.
By phone and email. You send your words, photos and solicitor details, we build a draft and send you the link, and you ask for as many changes as you like before paying anything. Adelaide is half an hour behind Canberra all year, so arranging calls is simple. We reply within 24 hours.
Let us know which matters you take on, whether you act under ACT, Commonwealth or NSW law, and how clients reach you. We'll reply with a quote and then build a draft, and nothing is payable until you approve it.
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