Back in 2002, when Intendance reviewed its first legal website, using 20 checks to assess a website gave us a good indication of how the site measured up against its peers. For its latest report – Intendance Fast 50 Solicitors’ Websites 2006: Who is Winning and Why? – the company made 73 checks.

This broadening of the scope of our scoring system over the past five years can in part be explained by an increasing awareness of what constitutes a good web-site – only this year Intendance extended the scope significantly by collaborating with branding design specialist Philosophy – but the development of the scoring system also reflects the evolution of legal websites themselves.