Tagline ideas for lawyers
A tagline earns its place by saying the one thing you want remembered. Ten angles here, not ten rewordings of one.
Ten of them follow, written for lawyers rather than filled in from a template. Your customer is someone with a problem they have been avoiding naming, and what they are weighing up before they get in touch is a bill that arrives with no warning and no way to have predicted it.
The service, plainly
Contracts and review in [your town].
Use this when people search for the service by name and you just need to confirm they are in the right place.
The promise
The fee arrangement is set out before any work begins.
Use this when the commercial promise is the thing that wins the job.
Reliability
The lawyer who explains it in language you can repeat at home.
Use this if doing the basic thing consistently is genuinely rare in your trade.
Credential
Admitted to practise in this state. [Your town].
Use this where the licence or registration does the persuading.
Local
The lawyer [your town] keeps recommending.
Use this when you serve one area and intend to keep serving it.
The worry, named
We quote flat fees wherever the work allows — every time.
Use this when your whole market has the same fear and nobody says it out loud.
The differentiator
Explaining it in language the client can repeat to their spouse.
Use this when you can name the standard you hold in a few words.
Specialist
Contracts and review. That is the whole list.
Use this if you have narrowed deliberately. It reads as confidence.
For the customer
For someone with a problem they have been avoiding naming.
Use this when naming who it is for does more work than naming what it is.
The invitation
A paid or free initial consultation, stated clearly which.
Use this where the tagline sits directly above a button.
Writing for lawyers: what actually matters
What should a lawyer’s website say that a generic one does not?
Three things, in this order. That you are admitted to practise in this state. That you understand the thing people are actually worried about, which for lawyers is a bill that arrives with no warning and no way to have predicted it. And what happens next: a paid or free initial consultation, stated clearly which. Everything else on the page is decoration by comparison.
What does someone with a problem they have been avoiding naming check first?
The credential, then the proof. For lawyers it sounds like this. We quote flat fees wherever the work allows. You speak to the lawyer, not an assistant. We estimate before the work starts. Put at least one of those above the fold rather than on a separate page nobody opens.
What is the most common mistake on a lawyer’s website?
Writing about the business instead of the customer. "We have been established since 1998" answers a question nobody asked. "We start with a paid or free initial consultation, stated clearly which" answers the one they are actually holding. If you only fix one thing, fix that.
How long should the copy be?
Shorter than you think, except where trust is being built. An About page of 120 well-chosen words beats 500 vague ones. The exception is anything explaining a bill that arrives with no warning and no way to have predicted it — there, specifics earn their length.
Everything else for lawyers
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