Websites for solicitors in Geelong and out across the Bellarine, the Surf Coast, Golden Plains and Colac Otway. A client in Torquay or Bannockburn sees straight away which kinds of matter you take, where you'll meet them, and how to make first contact without setting the whole story down in writing.
A general practice in Geelong might handle a transport accident claim one day and a conveyance in Armstrong Creek, a will for a couple in Ocean Grove or a parenting dispute the next, with clients coming in from Colac, Queenscliff or Lara. Your site's job is to send each of them to the right page, and the right lawyer, within a click or two.
Transport accidents and workplace injuries run through two different Victorian schemes, each with its own rules and claim process. If injury work is part of your practice, each scheme gets its own page in your words: who can claim, what you handle at each stage, and how you charge.
Your office address first, then the council areas your clients really come from, with a plain note on whether you see people in Torquay, Drysdale or Colac, meet by video, or ask them to come into Geelong. A short list that's accurate is worth more than a claim to cover “the whole region”.
Criminal, intervention order and civil clients want to know which building to go to and what to expect there. A page on the Geelong Law Courts beside the station, in your words, answers the questions people otherwise ring about the night before.
A short form asking for the type of matter, a safe number and time to call, and whether a message can be left. For someone dealing with family violence or a criminal charge, that last question matters before they press send.
Photo, year of admission, areas of practice and any LIV accredited specialisation on each profile, with a link to the Victorian register. Membership of the LIV or the Geelong Law Association goes on the profile of each lawyer who holds it, in words you supply.
Many firms charge a fixed fee for wills, powers of attorney and residential conveyancing. If you do, a “from” price with a line on what it includes lets a buyer in Grovedale or Leopold compare you with a Melbourne firm before calling.
We can link the booking tool you already use from every page, or build a booking and payment system into the site, quoted for your practice.
Victorian rules, briefly. Geelong lawyers hold practising certificates from the Victorian Legal Services Board and work under the Legal Profession Uniform Law and its conduct rules, including rule 36 on advertising and specialist claims. Our Melbourne lawyers page covers the Board, the public register of lawyers and LIV accreditation in more detail, with sources. Locally, the Geelong Law Association (opens in a new tab) is an incorporated association for lawyers, law students and others who live or work in the Greater Geelong region; it has more than 300 members and a close relationship with Deakin University's School of Law.
Both injury schemes are run from central Geelong. The Transport Accident Commission is at 60 Brougham Street and WorkSafe Victoria's head office (opens in a new tab) is at 1 Malop Street. An injury practice here has two separate schemes to explain, each with its own claim process. Pages that describe how you run each kind of claim, written by you, with anything about past outcomes in wording you approve because rule 36 covers it, do more than a general “injury law” heading.
The Geelong Law Courts. The courts are on Railway Terrace, right next to Geelong station. The Magistrates' Court there (opens in a new tab) hears summary offences, civil claims up to $100,000 and personal safety and family violence intervention orders, and runs a Koori Court, the Assessment and Referral Court and the Court Integrated Services Program for people on bail. The Supreme Court lists Geelong among its 12 regional sitting locations. The Federal Circuit and Family Court sits there too, but its own site describes Geelong as a circuit location only, where documents can't be filed. A family law page that explains, in your words, where your clients' matters are likely to be heard saves confusion later.
The region your clients come from. The G21 Geelong Region Alliance groups five councils: Greater Geelong, Surf Coast, Colac Otway, Golden Plains and Queenscliffe. Torquay, Ocean Grove, Lara and Bannockburn are towns in their own right, so a practice page that names the towns you serve, and says how you meet people there, reads as local in a way a Geelong address alone doesn't. Barwon Community Legal Service, set up in 1986 as the Geelong Community Legal Service, gives free legal information, advice and casework across Greater Geelong, the Bellarine, the Surf Coast and Colac Otway from Level 1, 63 Thomson Street, Belmont. If you regularly refer on matters you can't take, a line pointing to them helps the person who isn't your client.
Working with us. We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and would work with a Geelong practice by phone and email. We haven't built a site for a Geelong business yet, so the local detail comes from you: your areas of law, your lawyers and the towns you cover. We send a draft link, you ask for changes, and you pay once you approve it.
Neither site belongs to a law firm. Phoenix Housekeeping shows a discreet call-back option on an enquiry form, and Bright Building shows how a business covering several districts can give each one a page.
Cleaners in Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and the Central Coast whose work includes trauma and deceased estate cleans. Their quote form lets a client ask for a discreet call-back, the same choice a family law or criminal enquiry form should offer.
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An Adelaide renovation builder with seven service-area pages covering the city, the Adelaide Hills and the Fleurieu. A Geelong firm with clients from Colac to the Bellarine could do the same for the towns it really serves.
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$399
A single lawyer with one main area: the work you do, your register and LIV details, fees, the towns you see clients in, and a discreet enquiry form.
$899
Home, a page for your main area of law and a page for profiles, fees and how first appointments work. Suits a practice with one clear focus.
Our suggestion for a general practice
$1,499
Space for TAC claims, WorkCover, family law, wills and estates and property each to have a page, plus profiles and a page on the towns you serve.
Two. They're separate schemes with their own rules and claim processes, so a page each keeps them clear. Each page can explain in your words who can claim, what you do and how you charge. Anything about past results goes in only in wording you approve; rule 36 of the conduct rules covers it, and questions about it go to the LIV or your own adviser.
Usually not. One page listing the towns you serve, and saying how you meet people in each, covers most firms. A separate page makes sense where you have a second office or a regular day in another town, as Bright Building has for each district it works in. We don't make pages for places you don't serve.
Only as far as it's accurate. The Federal Circuit and Family Court sits at the Geelong Law Courts on circuit, and its site says documents can't be filed there. Describe in your own words where your clients' hearings usually happen and what you handle for them, and leave court procedure to the court's own pages.
Yes. A short note linking to Barwon Community Legal Service, which covers Geelong, the Bellarine, the Surf Coast and Colac Otway, or to Victoria Legal Aid, is easy to add to a contact or FAQ page, and it's useful to someone you can't act for.
By phone and email. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) team working with businesses Australia-wide, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD; our Victorian client is in Melbourne. You send your words, photos and lawyer details, we build the draft, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
A sole practitioner with one main area fits the one-page site at $399. A practice with one clear focus fits the 3-page site at $899. A general practice doing injury claims, family law, wills and property usually needs the 8-page site at $1,499 to give each area a page.
Send us your areas of law, your lawyers' details and the towns your clients come from. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay nothing until you approve it.
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