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A modern website and content ecosystem for a Liverpool criminal defence firm
Website & Platform DesignDevelopment & BuildContent StrategyAI & Innovation
The situation
Cobleys is one of Liverpool's leading criminal defence solicitor firms with decades of experience and a strong reputation within the legal sector.
But their digital presence no longer reflected the quality of the business behind it.
The website felt outdated, difficult to navigate, and visually stuck in the traditional "corporate solicitor" world that often makes legal firms feel cold and unapproachable to the people who actually need them most.
The challenge wasn't credibility. It was communication.
Instead of the website functioning as a static brochure, it became part of a wider digital system designed to support ongoing growth and engagement, while still feeling credible within a highly sensitive sector.
Cobleys Solicitors
Criminal defence, Liverpool
- Client
- Cobleys Solicitors
- Industry
- Criminal Defence & Legal Services
- Services
- Website design, development, content ecosystem
- Location
- Liverpool
Cobleys Solicitors website and content platform
The goal
- Reposition Cobleys digitally with a website and content ecosystem that felt modern, trustworthy, and far more human
- Maintain the professionalism expected within the legal sector
- Improve user experience across mobile and desktop
- Make the firm feel more approachable
- Create stronger foundations for ongoing content and visibility
- Support wider social and thought leadership activity long term
The work
We redesigned and rebuilt the Cobleys website from the ground up with a focus on clarity, usability, and accessibility.
That included:
Full custom website design and development
Mobile-responsive user experience
Clearer navigation and service structure
Modernised visual direction
Improved content flow and accessibility
But the most valuable part of the project sat behind the scenes.
We developed a system that monitored relevant legal news stories and case coverage using Google Alerts aligned to the firm's services and areas of expertise.
This created an internal content ecosystem that continuously surfaced relevant topics and opportunities for commentary, helping the team generate more timely, informed, and visible content around active conversations happening within the legal sector.
That system then began feeding directly into the firm's wider LinkedIn and Instagram content strategy.
The challenge
Legal websites often fall into the same trap. They prioritise looking "professional" at the expense of actually connecting with people.
The risk is that firms end up feeling distant, overly corporate, or difficult to approach, particularly on mobile, where most people first encounter legal services during stressful situations.
At the same time, the website still needed to maintain credibility and trust within a highly sensitive sector.
Finding the balance between approachable and authoritative was critical.
The approach
We approached the project with clarity and usability first.
Instead of trying to reinvent the firm's identity completely, we focused on identifying what already gave Cobleys credibility and strengthening how that was communicated digitally.
That thinking shaped both the public-facing experience and the systems behind it.
The website was designed to feel cleaner, more modern, and easier to navigate, while the content ecosystem helped position the firm more consistently within relevant legal conversations online.
The goal wasn't simply to launch a better-looking website. It was to create a stronger digital foundation for long-term visibility and growth.
The outcome
- A significantly more modern and accessible digital presence
- Clearer experience for users across all devices
- A proactive approach to visibility and thought leadership online
- The website became part of a wider digital system, not a static brochure
Instead of the website functioning as a static brochure, it became part of a wider digital system designed to support ongoing growth and engagement, while still feeling credible within a highly sensitive sector.
Cobleys Solicitors
Criminal defence, Liverpool
This project is a strong example of how digital transformation doesn't always require reinventing a business from scratch.
Sometimes the biggest shift comes from improving clarity, simplifying the user experience, and building smarter systems around the expertise that already exists.
That's where digital starts becoming genuinely valuable long term.
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