Client · Legal advisory

Counsel-grade presence, on platform-grade infrastructure.

Lions & Co is a cross-border legal advisory. I designed and built its site as the standard every DVNC client site gets: a premium, editorial front backed by a static build, served worldwide from its own isolated worker on the DVNC Cloud platform, with content the firm can edit from a dashboard without ever touching code.

WebsiteDesign & BuildPlatform
Lions & Co cover
Overview

A law firm's gravity, without a law firm's website.

Legal advisory is sold on judgment, discretion, and presence, and most law-firm websites undermine all three with template design and slow, dated infrastructure. Lions & Co needed a site that carries the weight of the counsel it sells.

It runs as a tenant on the DVNC Cloud platform: every page is pre-rendered to static HTML, served by a worker that exists only for this client, and editable through a dashboard where a publish triggers a fresh build.

At a glance
Client
Lions & Co
Sector
Legal advisory
Year
2026
Role
Design, build & platform
The challenge

Discretion and weight, at the speed of a static page.

A legal advisory's site has one job: make a serious client feel they have found serious counsel. That means editorial design and photography-led presence, but also infrastructure the firm never has to think about: no plugins, no maintenance windows, no security surface, and content updates that do not require a developer.

Where it hurt
Template-grade design that undercuts premium counselFirms with no appetite for maintaining a CMSContent updates that usually require an engineerA global clientele that expects instant loads anywhere
The approach

What I built, and how it came together.

The build

A premium static site on an isolated tenant runtime.

An editorial, photography-led design, built as a fully static site and served from the client's own worker on the DVNC Cloud platform, with dashboard editing and rebuild-on-publish.

What it includes
Editorial design: serif display type, photography-led, quiet luxuryPractice areas, company, and insights sectionsEvery page pre-rendered static, no server rendering anywhereIsolated per-tenant worker: no shared runtime, no tenant-side secretsDashboard content editing with rebuild-on-publish
How it was built
01

Design the presence

An identity that reads like a private bank, not a template: display serifs, dark photography, restraint.

Brand directionDesign systemPhotography
02

Build it static

Every page pre-rendered at build time, with structured sections the client can safely edit.

Static buildEditable sectionsPerformance
03

Deploy as a tenant

The site ships onto the DVNC Cloud platform with its own isolated worker and storage, unreachable except through the platform's front door.

Tenant deployIsolationCustom domain
04

Hand over the pen

The firm edits text and imagery from the dashboard; publishing rebuilds and reships the site automatically.

Dashboard editingPublish flowLeads
Under the hood

A private-bank presence, on a platform the firm never sees.

Designed like counsel

Display serifs, dark photography, and restraint: the site borrows the language of private banking rather than legal-directory templates, because Lions & Co sells judgment across borders and the design has to feel like the advice.

Static by contract

Every page is pre-rendered at build time. There is no server rendering, no database on the request path, and no plugin surface to patch, which is why the site is instant worldwide and effectively maintenance-free.

Isolated by construction

The site runs as its own worker inside the platform's dispatch namespace, with its own storage and zero secrets on the tenant. It is unreachable except through the platform's front door, and no other tenant shares its runtime.

The firm holds the pen

Text and imagery carry edit anchors the dashboard understands, so the firm updates its own content and a publish triggers a fresh build and deploy. A law firm gets a premium site it can operate like a document.

The work

A closer look at what shipped.

The Lions & Co company page
The firm: discretion, presence, and photography
Lions & Co services
The practice areas, presented as counsel, not a menu
Lions & Co insights
Insights: the firm's editorial voice
The result

A firm that looks like its counsel, on infrastructure it never thinks about.

Lions & Co got a presence that matches its practice, and the operational reality every client on the platform gets: instant loads worldwide, nothing to patch or maintain, and content the firm updates itself with a publish button.

100%

static, every page pre-rendered

Isolated

its own worker, its own storage

0

maintenance burden on the firm

The stack

Built with

AstroCloudflare WorkersR2DVNC CloudTailwind CSS
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