A new homepage for a Swiss law firm
The trigger for the redesign was a browser warning about missing SSL encryption. That technical flaw became a welcome impulse to update not just the foundation, but the design and user guidance too.
The previous website was structured and clear, yet it had aged. Together with Davatz Legal, a new website took shape that does justice to the firm's personality — approachable, professional, on point. It conveys the firm's values and expertise and helps prospective clients orient themselves quickly.
The customer & the challenge: An insecure platform undermines trust
A website is more than code and design — it is the center of a firm's digital communication. The technical problem became the opportunity to step back with Davatz Legal and ask the decisive questions. The task was clear: a new, good-looking website was not enough. Davatz Legal needed a digital foundation that signals seriousness, states the firm's positioning clearly and is ready for future growth.
A browser warning looks like a technical detail, and it usually gets treated as one: add the certificate, leave everything else alone. For a law firm it lands exactly where trust is supposed to form — and behind it here sat a system that was no longer supported at all. A certificate on an unsupported platform only postpones the next incident.
customer
- Davatz Legal AG, an established law firm in the heart of Zurich
- Specialized in inheritance, family, corporate and contract law
- Trademark: Personal, pragmatic and solution-oriented legal advice at eye level
project
- Strategic website consulting & workshop
- Individual, trust-building web design
- Website development on Squarespace
- Professional multilingualism (DE/EN)
- Technical and content-related SEO basics
- Training and handover of the system
- Ongoing support & optimization
Special features
- The initial situation was a website with serious technical deficiencies (SSL errors)
- The existing system was outdated and no longer supported
- The digital presence reflected neither the competence nor the approachable approach of the law firm
Analysis and concept: The foundation for success
It all starts with “why”. In an intensive workshop, the core of the brand was uncovered together with the Davatz Legal team. Using methods like the Golden Circle, a strategic guardrail was defined that guided every subsequent decision. The goal: translating the firm's approachable attitude into a clear digital message.
Individual design: seriousness meets approachability
Standard themes are not adapted — an individual web design is developed for each client. Based on the defined strategy, several interactive live prototypes were developed. The Davatz Legal team experienced the future site firsthand and provided well-founded feedback. Requests such as a fixed header or a specific team page layout were implemented directly and efficiently, making the design process highly agile.
Efficient website development with a focus on added value
As a Swiss Squarespace Gold Partner, Noevu works on a platform that delivers security, stability and simplicity. Complex technical maintenance stays off the table — the focus stays on strategic implementation, design and usability. The result is a website for lawyers with a focus on inheritance law that is not only professional, but fundamentally robust and secure.
Extended and revised content that convinces
The services, from marriage and inheritance law to corporate law, are presented clearly and in plain language. The structure allows visitors to find relevant information quickly. This creates a solid foundation to increase the law firm's visibility and underline its expertise with SEO-optimized content.
Website launch and continuous optimization
The go-live was a complete success and was enthusiastically received by the Davatz Legal team. The site launched with a clean SEO structure and is continually improved through the service package. The included support hours ensure the site remains up-to-date and continuously optimized — with cost certainty and an experienced partner always at hand.
The result: A new website for lawyers that creates trust
The result is a modern, fast website that functions perfectly on all devices and authentically conveys the core values of Davatz Legal. The transformation from an error-prone site to a trustworthy digital flagship is obvious. The new online presence forms the ideal basis for future measures such as the creation of SEO-optimized content and sustainably strengthens the firm's position as a specialist lawyer in SAV inheritance law and an expert in inheritance and family law as well as corporate law in Zurich.
What has held up
With some distance, the early decisions prove their worth. The secure HTTPS foundation holds, and the strategy-first path through the Golden Circle produced a clear digital message that fits the firm. Davatz Legal comes across as serious and approachable at once — exactly as intended from the start. The project is a clean example of how Noevu works: strategy first, design second — the sequence of website strategy and consulting.
Two qualities that seem to contradict each other belong on the table before any design starts. A law firm wants to look serious and approachable at the same time; which one leads when the two collide is not settled by a colour choice but by the work that comes first — at Davatz Legal, the workshop brought exactly that core to the surface. And whether such an early decision held is only visible with distance, not on launch day: that the site carries both at once today is the real result.
The workshop showed us aspects that we had never thought about before. The new ideas were a surprise – in the most positive sense.
A no-obligation online appointment maps the goals and shows exactly how a trustworthy web presence for a Swiss law firm is built.
Frequently Asked Questions
What triggered the new website?
A browser warning about missing SSL encryption. The existing system was also outdated and no longer supported. Davatz Legal took the technical flaw as the moment to renew the design and user guidance as well.
Why did a workshop come before the design?
The firm did not need another good-looking website, it needed a foundation that puts its positioning across. In the workshop, the Davatz Legal team used methods such as the Golden Circle to uncover the brand core — the strategic guardrail every later decision was measured against.
How could the firm judge the design before the site existed?
Instead of adapted standard themes, several interactive live prototypes were built. The Davatz Legal team experienced the future site firsthand and gave feedback on it; requests such as a fixed header or a specific team page layout went in directly.
Why Squarespace for a law firm?
The platform delivers security, stability and simplicity, so no energy goes into complex maintenance. For a firm that above all needed a robust and secure foundation after an SSL problem, that was the decisive point.
Who maintains the website after handover?
Davatz Legal does — training and handover of the system were part of the project. Ongoing improvement runs through a service package with included support hours; the site stays up to date and the cost stays predictable.
Can a law firm website on Squarespace run in two languages?
Yes. The Davatz Legal site runs in German and English; multilingualism was part of the project scope from the start.
