A law firm website in Rome: practice areas, fees, confidentiality

A law firm in Rome wins on its website when one page per practice area answers the actual case, and no form asks for the facts of that case. Practice area, fees and confidentiality, in that order.

Rome has 2,748,109 residents in 2023 within a single municipality (data from Wikidata Q220, Roma Capitale, Lazio): a number that orients nobody, because the search starts from the practice area and the neighbourhood, not the city. The page on websites in Rome covers the address; here the subject is how to write the practice area.

One page per practice area, with the typical case inside

One page per practice area written as an answer beats ten entries on an «Areas of practice» page. Someone looking for a lawyer after a dismissal does not want the list of skills: they want to know whether their case fits, what to bring and how long it takes.

Fees: the law says when, the site says how

Article 13 of Law 247/2012 requires a lawyer to state in writing, on request, the foreseeable cost of the work. The site does not need a price list: it needs the parameters of Decree 55/2014, what is included, disbursements, VAT and social security contribution, and payment terms. The detail is in the guide to a law firm website.

Confidentiality: no case facts in a form

• The form asks for name, phone and practice area: three fields, no free text.
• The facts are heard on the phone, in the office or on an encrypted channel.
• A «describe your problem» field collects judicial data, a special category under Article 9 of the GDPR.
• Certified email remains the formal channel for documents, not a web form.
• The privacy notice states where contact data goes and how long it stays.

Structured data: LegalService and Attorney

LegalService describes the firm with address, phone, hours and areaServed; Attorney, a subtype of LegalService and Person, describes the lawyer with knowsAbout for the practice areas. Each area can become a Service with its own page. The method is in how to add schema markup.

# numero di albo e PEC sono in pagina?
curl -s https://www.esempio.it/studio | grep -oE "[Nn]umero di albo|PEC" | sort -u

# il modulo raccoglie testo libero?
curl -s https://www.esempio.it/contatti | grep -c "<textarea"

# quali entità dichiara la home
curl -s https://www.esempio.it | grep -o '"@type":"[A-Za-z]*"' | sort -u

Blocks from the catalogue

Three records worth opening. Team 01 is the lawyer grid with role and bar number, with the publisher's licence to check. FAQ 01 is the accordion for one practice area's questions. Contact 01 is the three-field form for a first contact, with no free-text area.

The limitation

The catalogue holds React and Tailwind components: there is no case management, no encrypted document exchange, no electronic signature. Documents need certified email or an encrypted channel, with a written privacy assessment. There is also no block designed for law firms: the structure has to be assembled by hand.

Cost and timing

A six or seven page site for a firm of two to five lawyers sits in the low thousands of euro when copy and photos are ready. The fixed items are certified email, domain, hosting and keeping practice areas current; the rest is writing. The range is national and the full picture is in what a website costs.

For the tax side of the site read VAT number and website, for the city page websites in Rome, for the technical base WordPress, Wix or React components. The full guide is a law firm website.