Websites for Melbourne solicitors, whether you practise alone in Footscray or Box Hill or run a small firm a few minutes' walk from William Street. Each area of law you handle gets a page of its own, every lawyer's profile lines up with the Victorian register, and the first message a client sends you stays short and private.
A tenant in Sunshine with a VCAT hearing next month and a family in Doncaster dealing with a parent's estate want different things from a law firm, but both arrive at the site wanting the same three answers: whether you take on matters like theirs, whether you can be trusted, and what happens once they make contact. The pages below give those answers in that order.
Family law, wills and probate, criminal defence, employment, property and conveyancing, migration: whatever you actually do, each area has its own page in your words. It names the matters you accept and the ones you refer on, who in the firm runs that work, and what a new client should bring to the first meeting.
The Victorian Legal Services Board's public register shows each lawyer's name, law practice and any disciplinary action, and lawyers can add the areas they practise, the languages they speak and any LIV accredited specialisation. When a profile on your site shows the same details and links to the register, a careful client can confirm them without ringing you.
If one of your lawyers advises in Greek, Vietnamese, Mandarin or Arabic, that goes on their profile and on the relevant practice pages, and the enquiry form lets a client say which language they'd like to use. Since the register already records languages when a lawyer chooses to, the two can say the same thing.
LIV accreditation is held by an individual lawyer in a particular area of law. We place it on that lawyer's profile, beside the area it covers, and on firm-wide pages we use only wording you've approved, such as “our team includes an accredited specialist in wills and estates”.
Type of matter, suburb, the number and time that suit the client, whether a voicemail is safe, and the court and date of any hearing already listed. Where you check for conflicts first, it asks for the other party's name, and a note asks people to hold back documents and detail until you've replied.
A starting price for fixed-fee work such as a will or a conveyance, an outline of how other matters are billed, and how long a first meeting runs if you don't charge for it. If you take Victoria Legal Aid matters, a line saying in which areas saves a phone call for both sides.
A button on every page can open the booking tool you already use, such as Calendly. Or we can build a booking and payment system into the site, quoted for your firm once we know how your appointments work.
Who regulates Victorian lawyers. Victoria and NSW both came under the Legal Profession Uniform Law on 1 July 2015, applied here by the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014; Western Australia joined on 1 July 2022. The Victorian Legal Services Board (opens in a new tab) issues, renews, suspends and cancels practising certificates, puts conditions on them and keeps the Victorian Legal Profession Register, with some functions delegated to the Law Institute of Victoria and the Victorian Bar. The Commissioner deals with complaints and can open an investigation without one. Certificates expire on 30 June each year, and each lawyer has to submit their own renewal through LSB Online rather than leave it to the firm.
The register and accreditation. Anyone can search the register of lawyers (opens in a new tab) for a lawyer's name, law practice, suburb for service and any disciplinary action. The rest is voluntary: a lawyer can add up to five languages and up to 15 areas of law in LSB Online, and an LIV accredited specialisation by emailing the Board, and none of it is published without their consent. It's worth filling those in before the website goes live, so the profile and the register say the same thing. Accreditation itself is run by the Law Institute of Victoria; Lawyers Weekly reported 1,186 accredited specialists in Victoria across 16 areas of law after the LIV's December 2022 conferral. Victoria Legal Aid's entry requirements for its section 29A panels also give accredited specialists a more streamlined application pathway.
Advertising. The same Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 apply in Victoria as in NSW, including rule 36 on advertising and on implying specialist expertise. Our Sydney lawyers page sets out what that rule says. You approve every word before launch and remain responsible for it; we arrange your wording and don't give compliance advice, and the Board itself says it doesn't give legal or professional advice to lawyers, so questions go to your own adviser or professional body.
Courts in the CBD and in the west. Most of Melbourne's courts sit along William Street: the Supreme Court at 210, the Magistrates' Court at 233, which also runs the Drug Court, Koori Court and Assessment and Referral Court, and the Commonwealth Law Courts at 305, home to the Federal Circuit and Family Court's Melbourne registry. The western suburbs changed in late 2025. Werribee Magistrates' Court closed for good on 31 October 2025, and the Wyndham Law Courts (opens in a new tab) at 17 Basalt Road opened to the public on 10 November, bringing the Magistrates' Court, Children's Court and VCAT under one roof, with a Koori Court and a Specialist Family Violence Court due there from 2027. A Point Cook or Hoppers Crossing practice whose site still sends clients to the old Werribee court needs a text change. On a site we build and host, that edit is part of the $30 monthly hosting.
Suburbs, not just “Melbourne”. The legal profession here is also organised by area. The Western Suburbs Law Association (opens in a new tab), a voluntary association with no membership fee, is open to lawyers, graduates and law students who live or work in Maribyrnong, Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Melton and Wyndham. A practice in the west can list that membership on its profiles, and every practice page can name the suburbs and courts it really serves rather than just “Melbourne”. We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Melbourne firms by phone and email. We haven't built a site for a Melbourne law firm yet; our Melbourne client is a confidential coaching practice for doctors.
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Coaching for doctors from a Melbourne specialist anaesthetist. An about page sets out her qualifications, and a discovery-call booking link appears on every page: the same arrangement a solicitor's profile and first-appointment button would use.
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Six service pages and FAQs, priced packages linked to online booking, and a five-step intake form that collects the background before the first session, much as a family lawyer gathers it before a first meeting.
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One lawyer and one main area of law: what you do, your register details and languages, how you charge, the suburbs and courts you cover, and the enquiry form.
Our suggestion for a suburban practice
$899
A home page, a page for your main area of law and a page for your lawyers' profiles, fees and first appointments. Enough for most suburban practices.
$1,499
For a firm with several areas of law or two offices: a page per area, profiles, fees, legal aid and locations, each naming the courts it relates to.
Werribee Magistrates' Court closed on 31 October 2025, and the Wyndham Law Courts at 17 Basalt Road, Werribee opened to the public on 10 November with the Magistrates' Court, Children's Court and VCAT. Any page that tells clients where to go on the day should name the new building. The Koori Court and Specialist Family Violence Court there are due from 2027, so mention them only once they're sitting.
We'd suggest it. The register shows a lawyer's name, practice and any disciplinary action, and lawyers can add areas of law, languages and LIV accreditation. A link from the profile lets a client check for themselves, and it's a reason to keep the profile and the register in step.
LIV accreditation belongs to the individual lawyer in a particular area, so we show it on that person's profile. On firm-wide pages we use only wording you approve, for example that the team includes an accredited specialist. Whether a particular phrase fits rule 36 is a question for the LIV or your own adviser before launch.
On each profile, and on the practice pages where it matters, with a choice of language on the enquiry form. If those lawyers have also recorded their languages on the register, the site and the register will agree, which helps clients trust both.
By phone and email. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) team working with businesses Australia-wide, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, including Dr Tabara Dione Coaching in Melbourne. You send your words, photos and lawyer details, we send a draft link, partners can review it in their own time, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
A sole practitioner with one main area can start on the one-page site at $399. Most suburban practices fit the 3-page site at $899. A firm with several areas of law, two offices or legal aid work to explain will want the 8-page site at $1,499.
Send us your areas of law, your lawyers' details and the suburbs and courts you work in. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay only once you've approved it.
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