A few specific fixes for mandmsolicitors.co.uk

A walk-through of the live mandmsolicitors.co.uk on 18 May 2026, from the seat of a Roath resident searching for a solicitor on a phone.

What I saw: Every service-page header on mandmsolicitors.co.uk uses the same generic stock image. Crime, immigration, conveyancing, probate, fraud, litigation are treated with identical card art. There is no photograph of 34 The Parade, no photograph of Nadeem or the team, no visual difference between an urgent police-station instruction and a deliberative will drafting. A first-time visitor cannot tell from the card art whether they have landed on the right firm for their matter.
The rebuild: The rebuild gives each practice area its own visual weight. Criminal defence reads urgent, with the 24-hour police-station line above the fold and the Law Society Criminal Litigation accreditation surfaced inline. Wills and probate reads deliberative, with a longer lede and the named senior solicitor. Real headshots of Nadeem, Catherine, Charlotte, and Carol Ann sit on the team cards rather than the placeholder silhouettes the current site still ships with.

What I saw: Five and a half years on, the most recent update the live site has surfaced is the launch announcement for the 2020 redesign itself. For a firm that holds Lexcel, the Law Society Criminal Litigation Accreditation, and a Legal 500 UK 2021 mention as both Leading Firm and Leading Individual, the silence reads as inactivity. A prospective client checking whether the firm is still trading sees one post, dated five years ago, announcing a website.
The rebuild: The rebuild retires the news feed entirely. The credentials and accreditations move to the homepage hero where they actually move a decision. The static date on the launch post stops being the strongest signal of recency. Schema markup (LegalService, AggregateRating, FAQPage) goes on every page at build time so Google sees a firm that is active, accredited, and Cardiff-based on every relevant query.

What I saw: Legal 500 UK 2021 named the firm a Leading Firm and Nadeem Majid a Leading Individual. The Law Society Criminal Litigation Accreditation and the Lexcel mark are both prominently issued and verifiable. On the live site, the badges sit in a thin footer strip below the fold. A first-time visitor weighing whether to instruct the firm sees the generic stock-photo header before any of the trust signals that would actually earn the call.
The rebuild: The rebuild lifts the four trust marks (Legal 500 Leading Firm, Legal 500 Leading Individual, Lexcel, Law Society Criminal Litigation Accreditation) into a why-us badge row directly under the H1. Real photographs of 34 The Parade and Nadeem replace the stock header art. The 24-hour duty-solicitor number sits as a secondary CTA so the urgent caller never has to scroll to find it.

What the current site is leaving on the table.