Queensland Law Society

The Queensland Law Society is the peak body for the legal profession in Queensland. Like all peak bodies in regulated professions, QLS carries dual obligations: serving members and supporting the regulatory and public-facing functions that come with the role. That mix shapes how the website needs to behave: it has to be easy for staff to maintain, robust enough for government metadata requirements, and reliable enough to be the default channel for both member self-service and public information about the profession.

Our work with QLS began with a CMS that was end-of-life on an unsupported platform, expensive to maintain, and difficult to manage. We implemented Kentico 12 with an MVC architecture that supported integration to existing business systems while leaving room for new ones, built more than a dozen custom widgets to give the content team flexible layout options without developer involvement, and integrated the Funnelback search platform that QLS already used so the on-site search performance lived up to the rest of the site. The result is a high-performing website with strong metadata management, government compliance, and on-site search that QLS describe as second to none in performance and flexibility.

Among the clients we publish about, QLS is the proof that getting search and structured content right makes a measurable dent in routine member contact.