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Montréal law-firm sites built for Québec, not Canada.
Most law-firm website templates are written for common-law provinces and quietly break in Québec. Wrong vocabulary, wrong process, wrong professional structure, and an English-first build in a French-first market. A rebuild starts from how Québec law actually works and how Québec clients actually search, then handles the second language properly rather than as a bolt-on.
Montréal legal market
Civil law, French first.
Québec runs on civil law, and the vocabulary is genuinely different. Clients search for mise en demeure, and for the specific terms the Code uses, not for the common-law equivalents an imported template will be built around. A site using the wrong words is not just imprecise, it is invisible to the searches that matter.
The professional structure is different too. Notaires and avocats do different work, and a client who needs one and lands on the other has been failed by the website. Firms that explain the distinction plainly on a page pick up traffic from people trying to work out who to call.
Language is not optional here. French-first is the default for a Montréal practice, with English handled properly for the clients who need it, and Loi 96 has real implications for how a business communicates. That gets scoped at the audit rather than guessed at after launch.
Three failure modes, repeatable fixes.
Adjectives where results should be
Every other firm says they are dedicated and experienced. None of those words convince a client. A short list of recent settlements (with figures, where ethics permit), and a clear practice area focus, beats an essay every time.
Phone is not the primary call to action
Personal-injury and immigration clients call. They do not fill out forms first. The phone number belongs in the header, in the hero, and at the bottom of every section. A contact form is fine as a secondary path, not the primary one.
Practice areas crammed into one page
Personal injury, immigration, family, and real estate are different searches with different intent. One page that lists all your practice areas ranks for none of them. Each area gets its own page with its own hero, its own results, and its own FAQ.
Built around four things that bring in calls.
On the phone first
Most find you on a phone. The whole site has to feel right at arm’s length.
- Tap targets
- 44px and up
- Body type
- 16px and up
- Call button
- Every screen
Loads before they leave
Pages open in under two seconds. Half of mobile visitors leave a slow site before it loads.
Yours to keep
No system you can’t log into. When we’re done, you have everything.
- Domain
- Hosting
- Code
- Content
- Analytics
What changes when we rebuild a site for Montréal law firms.
A Montréal law firm rebuild is structured French-first, with English handled as real parallel content and proper hreflang rather than a translation widget. Practice-area pages use the vocabulary of Québec civil law, not imported common-law terms. Lawyer profiles list Barreau du Québec standing and year of call. Where the firm works alongside notaires, the site explains the distinction plainly for clients who do not know it.
We also publish a generic law firms rebuild page and a working Halloran & Reid concept. Every rebuild starts with a free written audit, including the Montréal ones.
What Montréal owners ask before they hire us.
Don’t see yours? Ask us directly.
Can we publish case results without crossing ethics rules?
Yes, with care. Every provincial law society has its own rules on what counts as advertising versus reporting outcomes. We work to those rules, not around them. Settlements are usually publishable with a disclaimer; client identifiers stay off the site unless the client signs a written consent.
How many practice-area pages should we have?
One per area you actually want to take more cases in. Not one per area you happen to be licensed in. Personal injury, immigration, family law, real estate, wills and estates: each is a different search with a different prospective client. A focused four pages outranks a thin twelve every time.
How do you handle bilingual or multilingual sites?
Either as parallel French and English routes with the right hreflang tags, or as a separate French-language site if the practice is mostly Quebec. We have done both. The decision is more about which language Google should serve to which search than a technical question.
Can we just translate an English law firm site into French?
Not well. Québec is a civil law jurisdiction with its own vocabulary and its own procedure, so a translated common-law site ends up describing a process that does not exist here. It also reads as imported to a Québec client immediately. Building French-first and treating English as real parallel content produces a site that ranks in both languages and reads correctly in both.
What does Loi 96 mean for our website?
In practice it means French cannot be an afterthought on a business operating in Québec, and that the French version needs to be at least as complete and prominent as any other language. We are not the compliance authority on it and will not pretend to be. What we will do is scope the language structure at the audit, build French-first so the question does not come up later, and flag anything that looks like it needs your own legal review.
Short answers
Working law firms elsewhere? See web design for law firms across Canada or Montréal web design.
We also build law firms sites in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Mississauga, Brampton, Markham, and Surrey.
Worth reading before you rebuild.
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