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.
- At a glance
- 2026
- Client
- Lions & Co
- Sector
- Legal advisory
- Year
- 2026
- Role
- Design, build & platform
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.
- 100%
- static, every page pre-rendered
- Isolated
- its own worker, its own storage
- 0
- maintenance burden on the firm
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.
- Template-grade design that undercuts premium counsel
- Firms with no appetite for maintaining a CMS
- Content updates that usually require an engineer
- A global clientele that expects instant loads anywhere
What I built,and how it came together.
The buildA 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.
- Editorial design: serif display type, photography-led, quiet luxury
- Practice areas, company, and insights sections
- Every page pre-rendered static, no server rendering anywhere
- Isolated per-tenant worker: no shared runtime, no tenant-side secrets
- Dashboard content editing with rebuild-on-publish
- 01Design the presence
An identity that reads like a private bank, not a template: display serifs, dark photography, restraint.Brand direction · Design system · Photography
- 02Build it static
Every page pre-rendered at build time, with structured sections the client can safely edit.Static build · Editable sections · Performance
- 03Deploy 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 deploy · Isolation · Custom domain
- 04Hand over the pen
The firm edits text and imagery from the dashboard; publishing rebuilds and reships the site automatically.Dashboard editing · Publish flow · Leads
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
Visit lionss.coA 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.
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