Russell-Cooke, a top 100 UK law firm, had a website that was working against them. Complex navigation buried their services, drop-off rates were high, and a brand identity that is genuinely warm and personal simply was not coming through. We rebuilt the platform from the ground up: new architecture, new design, a faster and greener foundation.
Year
2022-Present
Industry
Legal
Technology
Finding the right structure
Russell-Cooke's site had grown organically over the years into something that made sense internally but made very little sense to the person who mattered most: a potential client trying to find the right solicitor at a difficult moment. Services were buried, navigation was complex, and the drop-off rates showed it.
Before anything was designed or built, we ran a series of Information Architecture workshops together. We mapped every piece of content: what to keep, what to cut, what to merge, and what to finally give a proper home. The result was a structure built around how potential clients actually look for legal support, not around how the firm was organised.
Design that earns trust
For a law firm, trust is the whole product. Every design decision had to communicate competence, warmth, and clarity at the same time. We simplified the colour palette, extending Russell-Cooke's core greens and repurposing secondary colours as UI support tones rather than decorative ones. The result is a fully AA-compliant, brand-coherent visual language that feels considered rather than corporate.
The thought leadership engine got the platform it deserved, too. A search-powered insights hub built on Orama Studio brings events, articles, podcasts, videos, and downloadable guides into one place, where users can find relevant expertise in seconds rather than hunting across disconnected pages.
Built to perform. And to last.
Orama Studio's out-of-the-box foundation cut the development phase significantly, freeing time to focus on what made this project specific: bespoke logic for listing and filtering content that reflects how Russell-Cooke's practices actually work. Less time on scaffolding meant more time on the things that genuinely differentiated the firm online.
The platform runs on CogFlare, which handles the majority of traffic through a CDN layer, maximising performance while driving down carbon emissions by 90%. Fully responsive, security-tested to OWASP standards, and straightforward for the Russell-Cooke team to manage without coming back to us for every update. An A-rated security score and Google Lighthouse scores above 90 to show for it.
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