RMR Law Associates
A bilingual law firm site built compliance-first.
- RMR Law Associates & Consultants LLP
- Design & build
- 2026
- Full-stack, Web design, UI/UX
A bilingual English and Malayalam website for a Kerala firm of advocates, designed around Bar Council of India Rule 36 — which restricts how advocates may advertise. The constraint drove the architecture: an automated compliance check fails the build on any advertising-rule regression.
The risk was not having a website. It was what the website said.
Bar Council of India Rule 36 restricts advertisement and solicitation by advocates. The exposure sits in superlative claims, promised outcomes, and published testimonials or ratings — not in the existence of a site.
The firm was replacing a WordPress site that had accumulated the usual marketing language, along with a set of broken URLs and a claim of "25 years" standing three paragraphs from a claim of "21 years".
Compliance as a build step, not a review step
A checklist a human runs before deploying is a checklist that eventually gets skipped. So the rules were made executable — npm run compliance scans the content files and exits non-zero on any regression.
- No reviews route, and no rating anywhere on the site
- No aggregateRating or review in structured data, so no stars in search results
- Titles lead with the firm name rather than search keywords
- The disclaimer gate is a real gate — declining actually withholds the site
- Years of standing derived from the enrolment year, so it can never contradict itself
Everything a non-developer would change lives in one folder
Offices, phone numbers, courts, credentials, all twelve practice areas and both language dictionaries sit in content/. Every practice page, nav entry, sitemap row, intake option and JSON-LD block derives from those files.
Adding a practice area is a one-file edit. The firm does not need me to publish a change.
The broken links from the old site were redirected too
Every URL from the previous WordPress site 301s to its replacement — including the ones that were already broken there. /litignation was a typo that had been live for years. /civil-law pointed at Corporate Law.
Inbound links to a misspelled URL are still inbound links. They now land somewhere correct.
- 51
- 12
- 2
Both languages, fully pre-rendered
Each a one-file content edit
English and Malayalam at parity
- Next.js 15
- React 19
- Tailwind CSS v4
- Framer Motion
- MDX
- Vercel