Question 1

Have you built a Vancouver law-firm website before?

Accepted Answer

Honest answer: this would be our first law-firm engagement, in Vancouver or anywhere. The closest professional-services adjacencies in our portfolio are Floka Salon (consultation-led, regulated-by-college appointment business) and JEM HR (B2B professional services). What we are bringing to a Vancouver legal engagement is not 'we have done dozens of these'; it is 'we have done the regulatory homework on the Law Society of BC's marketing rule, on PIPA intake handling, and on s. 91 of the IRPA representation rules, and we will not write the page that gets you reported.'

Question 2

Will my site be safe under the Law Society of BC's marketing rule?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and this is where most Vancouver law-firm websites are exposed. Rule 4.2 of the BC Code of Professional Conduct restricts unverifiable superlatives ('best', 'top', 'leading', 'premier'), 'specialist' claims where no certified-specialist program exists in BC, and outcome / comparative claims that risk creating an erroneous impression of the typical client experience. In our April 2026 audit of the Vancouver lawyer local pack, 7 of 9 BC sites broke the superlative rule and 7 of 9 surfaced outcome claims as primary positioning. We write substantiable specifics, credentials, call-to-the-bar date, practice depth, transparent fee structure, instead.

Question 3

Can we still mention case results?

Accepted Answer

Yes, with the right framing. Case-result content can sit on a dedicated 'Notable Cases' or 'Reported Decisions' page with the public citation and a clear 'past results do not predict future outcomes' disclosure on the page. What we steer firms away from is 'recovered millions for our clients' or 'won every ICBC case' as the H1, that is the framing the Law Society's marketing-rule guidance specifically flags as creating an erroneous impression of typical outcomes.

Question 4

Multilingual immigration content, what does that actually look like?

Accepted Answer

Native-language content sections (not machine-translated English pages) for the largest Vancouver immigration source markets. Mandarin / Simplified Chinese, Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean, Farsi, with proper hreflang tagging and Search Console submission so each language version indexes in its own locale. Content is written by a fluent speaker who understands both the immigration program (Express Entry, BC PNP, Start-Up Visa, family sponsorship, study/work permits, refugee, citizenship) and the source-country context. We co-ordinate the writing; you sign off.

Question 5

How do you handle PIPA on the intake form?

Accepted Answer

Encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest, explicit consent capture before case-fact questions are presented, retention period and breach-notification language in the privacy notice, and a plain-English privacy summary on the form itself that explicitly notes that lawyer-client privilege does not attach until a retainer is signed. PIPA (BC's Personal Information Protection Act, S.B.C. 2003, c. 63) governs how a private-sector BC law firm handles personal information, including the case-fact summary collected through an online intake form. The OIPC for BC publishes the operational guidance we map to.

Question 6

What about LSBC's rule on 'specialist' and certified-specialist programs?

Accepted Answer

Important Vancouver-specific nuance: BC has no Law Society-certified specialist program. The Law Society of Ontario does (Certified Specialist designation), so Toronto firms can legitimately use 'Certified Specialist in Immigration Law' as a credential. BC firms cannot. Rule 4.2-2 of the BC Code restricts the use of 'specialist' or 'specialize in' for that reason. We write 'practice focused on ICBC personal injury' or 'immigration practice since 2009' instead, substantiable, not restricted.

Question 7

Will my Vancouver firm rank for 'family lawyer Vancouver'?

Accepted Answer

We can't guarantee rank. Google personalises the local pack by IP, location, and history. Two specific Vancouver realities to flag honestly: 'family lawyer Vancouver' is heavily contaminated by Vancouver Washington firms in unfiltered Google, which shifts the BC competitive set; and BC's biggest pack-ranking lever is by neighbourhood and by sub-practice. We build per-neighbourhood pages (downtown, Yaletown, Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey, North Vancouver) and per-sub-practice pages (separation, child support, divorce, parenting orders, property division), each with its own LocalBusiness / LegalService schema and competitive set.

Question 8

Pricing and timeline?

Accepted Answer

Starter $599 (solo practitioner, single practice area, intake form, basic SEO). Professional $1,995 (multi-area firm, partner bios with credentials, PIPA-aware intake routing by practice area, neighbourhood SEO, reviews workflow, one multilingual section). Custom from $5,000 (large firm, full multilingual immigration content, Clio / PracticePanther / MyCase intake routing, advanced SEO, Local Services Ads onboarding for ICBC PI). One to two weeks for Starter and Professional; three to four weeks for Custom multilingual builds.

Vancouver law-firm websites built for the rules that govern them.

Before you read any further, the honest disclosure.

The three rules every Vancouver law-firm site is bound by, and how we build to each.

1. Law Society of BC. Code of Professional Conduct, Rule 4.2 (Marketing of Legal Services)

2. IRPA s. 91, representation disclosure for immigration practices

3. PIPA (BC), intake forms and prospective-client data

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