🏢 Legal Services · Melbourne, Melbourne
Melbourne · Local Business
Research Phase
Before writing a single line of code, our research agent studied Trevor McLean — Barrister — their current website, social presence, reviews, team, and services. Here's what stood out.
Practises from Owen Dixon Chambers East at 205 William Street, Melbourne — one of the city's premier barrister chambers, with Foley's List (List F) providing clerking and administrative support across the full spectrum of legal practice areas
The demo site includes a dedicated 'Submit Brief' page and 'Instructing Info' page — addressing the specific workflow of how solicitors engage barristers, which is unique to the Victorian Bar referral model
Foley's List is contactable via a centralised clerking system (03 9225 7777, foleys@foleys.com.au), meaning the website must serve as a professional profile that drives enquiries through the list's established channels rather than direct contact
Design Phase
Every design decision was intentional — informed by the research, not pulled from a template library.
Visual Direction
A 6-page site structured around the barrister briefing workflow: profile, practice areas, a dedicated probate and wills page, instructing information for solicitors, and a submit brief page. The formal layout uses 8 components including an accordion for practice area details and a counter for credentials, with restrained animation via Framer Motion appropriate to the legal profession.
Design Rationale
Barristers on the Victorian Bar don't market like typical businesses — they're briefed by solicitors through a clerking list. The design prioritises professional credibility and clear practice area communication over lead generation. The 'Submit Brief' and 'Instructing Info' pages directly serve the solicitor audience, while the Probate and Wills page signals a key specialisation that helps solicitors identify the right barrister for their matter.
Build Phase
Site Architecture
// Next.js App Router
Methodology
Spark (research agent) scraped Trevor McLean — Barrister's current website, Google reviews, social media, and business listings. Every piece of real data — team names, service pricing, business hours, unique details — was extracted into a structured profile.
Based on the research, a bespoke design direction was created specifically for Trevor McLean — Barrister. No templates — the typography, color palette, layout patterns, and visual effects were all chosen to match this business's personality and industry.
Pixel (design agent) built the entire 6-page Next.js application from scratch — 8 custom components, real content from the research phase, App Router with proper routing, and production-grade code.
Sentinel (QA agent) verified the build compiles cleanly, checked for placeholder content, validated all routes render correctly, and confirmed the design is unique (not recycled from another demo).
Additional Notes
Research checked 6 sources including the Foley's List website (foleys.com.au) and the Victorian Bar directory. Data completeness was low — Foley's List is JS-rendered and couldn't be scraped, Brave Search API was exhausted, Google was blocked by CAPTCHA, and Trevor McLean's individual Victorian Bar profile returned a 404. Most data was populated from general Foley's List information.
For Reference
Trevor McLean — Barrister's current website: www.foleys.com.au
More from the experiment
This case study is part of the AI Web Lab — a 30-day experiment where AI agents build bespoke websites for real Melbourne businesses. Every site is researched, designed, and built from scratch by a team of five specialist AI agents. The full methodology, code, and results are documented transparently.
This study is being prepared for publication as part of a research paper on AI-assisted web development at scale.
We built Trevor McLean — Barrister's site in 12 minutes. Same process, same quality — a custom website built for you, not a template.