Case study

SUNG: a law firm's site where choosing a practice area is already the first step

A technical preview of an institutional site for a new legal practice, built to test whether a firm can be presented as decisions rather than credentials — pick the matter, and the inquiry opens with it — on top of an editorial panel the firm runs itself.

SUNG is an independent technical preview I designed and built to demonstrate this approach end to end. It was not commissioned by a firm, the team profiles are demonstrative, no clients, awards or results are published, and no outcome figures are claimed here — what follows is the reasoning and the build.

SUNG homepage on desktop: a shelf of six practice areas as numbered spines over a dark editorial ground
Live preview · desktop
SUNG homepage on a phone: the practice shelf and the firm's headline stacked for one hand
Live preview · phone

The problem this tests

Law firm websites are usually a wall of credentials: partners, years, a list of areas in alphabetical order, and a contact page. The visitor with an actual matter has to translate their problem into the firm's vocabulary before anyone will talk to them.

SUNG was built to test the reverse: present the firm as the set of decisions a client is about to make, and make choosing a practice area the same gesture as starting the conversation.

The shelf

The hero is a shelf of six practice areas, each a numbered spine with a one-line statement of what it handles. Choosing one does not open a brochure page — it takes the visitor to the inquiry with the matter already set, so the first click is also the first useful piece of information the firm receives.

On small screens the shelf compresses without losing the gesture; in English, the same shelf carries the same preselection, because the practice keys are shared and only the wording is translated.

Content the firm owns

Behind the public site is an editorial panel: team profiles, practice areas, insights, inquiries and files, edited by the firm rather than by a developer. The general content is written on official Argentine sources, and nothing unverified — clients, awards, addresses — is published by default.

The panel is deliberately conservative: authenticated sessions, restrained permissions and published pages that revalidate on a schedule, so the site stays fast for visitors while the firm keeps control of what it says.

What the build proves

SUNG is bilingual on a shared database with an authenticated back office and a public surface that renders statically — the shape a professional firm needs: authoritative, quick, and owned.

It shows the studio turning positioning into interaction, and building the editorial operation that lets a firm keep that positioning current without help.

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