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With over 20 years of helping law firms become more successful online, our team have amassed a whole range of knowledge on how to get the most out of digital marketing for law firms. Read their top tips and tricks, expertise and upcoming trends your firm should know about in our blog. 

Should I add an accessibility widget to my law firm website?

Angela Whittaker
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A question we get asked a lot at Conscious is whether law firms should add an accessibility overlay or assistive toolbar widget on their website. My short answer to the question is: no! In this blog, I will walk you through why this is the case. ...

Conscious Crash Course: How to connect your work email address to a Google account

Joe Gillan
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All law firm marketers know the importance of the Google Workspace for day-to-day activity. Google brings together a comprehensive suite of tools for productivity and content creation, as well as giving marketers ready access to Google Analytics and Google...

We Went to brightonSEO 2026. Here's What Confirmed Our Thinking, and What We've Taken Back to Our Clients

Miles Meacham
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brightonSEO is the largest SEO conference in the UK, and it is a genuinely useful place to take stock of where the industry is heading. Some sessions challenged our thinking. Others reinforced approaches we have already been developing. Here are the...

What Is Personal Branding (and Why Does it Matter in Law)?

Gemma Comley
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Before someone speaks to you, they have probably already formed an opinion about you. They may have visited your LinkedIn profile, searched your name online, read an article you shared, or heard about you from a colleague. Long before a first meeting takes...

Blogs, Social, PR and the AI Overview Era: The Content that Works in 2026

Gemma Campbell
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Search has changed. Client behaviour has changed. Here's the content strategy that keeps UK law firms visible, trusted, and growing. If you're responsible for marketing a UK law firm right now, you're operating in genuinely new territory. The...

AI & Copywriting: What Are the Benefits and Risks for UK Law Firms?

Dan Hodges
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When used appropriately, LLMs can help streamline marketing content creation while allowing legal professionals to focus on adding expertise and firm-specific insight. However, the use of AI-generated content in the legal sector presents ethical and...

A Different Kind of Growth: What Law Firms Should Be Thinking About Now

Dan Hodges
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There’s a line from Hemingway about how change happens:  gradually, then suddenly. That’s what came to mind at the Legal Futures Law Firm Growth Summit last week. We’ve been talking about change in the legal sector for a long time:...

Local SEO For Law Firms - 2026 Strategy Guide

Chris Mundy
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  Summary Published by Conscious Solutions, this guide argues that local SEO is the most defensible digital channel for law firms in 2026 as AI Overviews erode top-of-funnel blog traffic. The core strategic shift is from informational content...

PPC in 2026: Navigating Conversational Search & AI Ad Formats in the UK

Nate Reece
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The Shift to Conversational AI: ChatGPT Ads and the New Google SERP The UK PPC landscape in 2026 is no longer shifting; it has fundamentally transformed. With OpenAI rolling out AI-native ad formats within ChatGPT to the UK market and Google’s SGE...

Five Signs that it's Time to Break Up with Your Law Firm's Website

Ellie Phillips
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It’s not you… But it might be your website. When it comes to websites, it’s quite easy for law firms to get comfortable.  We get it: for many firms, their website is a long-standing part of their brand, so changing it may seem...

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