How to Plan an Advocate Website in Gurgaon Under Rule 36

What should an advocate website in Gurgaon contain?

An advocate website in Gurgaon should state who you are, how to reach you and where you practise, and nothing that reads like a sales pitch. The Bar Council of India allows advocates a website, but only as a factual information page. Good advocate website design starts from that limit rather than from a marketing template.

In Gurugram, most advocates appear before the District & Sessions Court, which now sits in the New Judicial Court Complex (Tower of Justice), and many also appear before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in Chandigarh. The people looking you up may be residents of the DLF phases and Golf Course Road, staff of companies in DLF Cyber City, or families from Sohna Road and the newer sectors. Most of them will read your page on a phone, often after someone has given them your name.

That last point matters. A legal client usually arrives already referred and wants to confirm three things: that you are enrolled, that you handle their kind of matter, and where your chamber is. Design the site to answer those three questions quickly.

What does BCI Rule 36 allow on an advocate's website?

Rule 36 forbids soliciting work or advertising, but a 2008 amendment lets advocates publish a website limited to particulars set out in a Schedule. Anything beyond those particulars is treated as a breach of the rule.

Rule 36 sits in Part VI, Chapter II, Section IV (Duty to Colleagues) of the Bar Council of India Rules. As reproduced by SCC Online, it says an advocate "shall not solicit work or advertise, either directly or indirectly, whether by circulars, advertisements, touts, personal communications, interviews not warranted by personal relations, furnishing or inspiring newspaper comments or producing his photographs to be published in connection with cases in which he has been engaged or concerned." The proviso added in 2008 says the rule "will not stand in the way of advocates furnishing website information as prescribed in the Schedule under intimation to and as approved by the Bar Council of India", and that any additional input will be deemed a violation.

According to summaries of the Schedule such as iPleaders, the permitted particulars are:

• Name, address, telephone numbers and e-mail ID
• Enrolment number and date of enrolment
• The State Bar Council where you were originally enrolled, and the one on whose roll your name now stands
• The bar association of which you are a member
• Professional and academic qualifications
• Areas of practice

What must a Gurgaon advocate website never include?

Leave out anything that praises, compares, promises or invites work. Many website templates built for overseas law firms include exactly these features, so strip them out before launch.

The Bar Council of India repeated these concerns in a cautionary press release in March 2025, warning against social media promotions, influencer endorsements and other online advertising by advocates, as MediaNama reported.

Do you need a disclaimer or "I agree" page?

No rule we found requires one, but most Indian law firm websites show a short disclaimer that the visitor must accept before reading. It records that the visitor is seeking information on their own initiative and that the site is not an advertisement or solicitation.

A typical disclaimer says that the Bar Council of India does not permit advocates to solicit work or advertise, that the visitor is accessing the site of their own accord, that the content is general information and not legal advice, and that using the site does not create an advocate-client relationship.

• Keep it short: four or five plain sentences, readable on a phone without scrolling.
• Make it accessible: a real button that works with a keyboard and a screen reader, not a tiny link.
• Remember the choice: once accepted, do not show it again on every page.
• Do not hide the content from search engines: show the disclaimer as an overlay on the normal page, so the page itself still loads and can be indexed.
• Match it in Hindi: if the site has a Hindi version, translate the disclaimer too. Our law firm website developer guide explains how to build it.

How should a Gurgaon advocate site show courts and the chamber?

List the courts where you regularly appear and give exact directions to your chamber. Both are factual, and both are what a referred client in Gurugram is trying to confirm.

1. Courts page: name each forum plainly, for example the District & Sessions Court, Gurugram, and the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh. Add the Delhi courts only if you genuinely practise there.
2. Chamber page: chamber number and block if you sit in the court complex, or the full office address if you work from a sector office. Add an embedded Google Map and visiting hours.
3. Second office: if you also keep an office near Cyber City or Sohna Road, give it its own address block with its own hours.
4. Useful official links: link to the court's own website for cause lists and case status, so clients can check dates themselves.

Avoid creating a separate page for every sector or locality just to catch searches. Advocates are not allowed to tout for work, and a page titled for each neighbourhood can look like exactly that.

How can people in Gurgaon find you on Google without advertising?

Keep your details accurate and consistent everywhere, and let the facts do the work. A clear site, a correct Google Business Profile and the same address and phone number on both are the core of local visibility for an advocate.

• Google Business Profile: Google's guidelines treat lawyers as individual practitioners, who may have their own profile if they are public-facing and can be contacted at the verified location during stated hours. Use your real name only, with no keywords or taglines. Our guide to Google Business Profile optimisation in Gurgaon covers set-up.
• Reviews: do not ask clients for reviews, do not offer anything for them, and do not copy them onto your website.
• Areas of practice pages: one plain page per area you handle, explaining in general terms what the area covers.
• Paid listings and ads: avoid them. In P.N. Vignesh (2024 SCC OnLine Mad 2770) the Madras High Court held that advocates soliciting work through online listing platforms breached the rules.
• Technical basics: fast pages, correct titles, and a sitemap, as covered on our website development in Gurgaon page.

Which design choices suit an advocate's information site?

Quiet, readable and fast. The design should signal care and seriousness, and get out of the way of the facts.

• Plain typography with good contrast; no flashing banners or pop-ups.
• A professional portrait only after you have checked with your Bar Council, since photographs are not among the listed particulars.
• English and Hindi versions with the same facts in both, if your clients include people more comfortable in Hindi.
• A short contact form asking only for name, phone and the type of matter, never the full facts of the case.
• A privacy note on the form. Under the DPDP Act, 2023, the DPDP Rules, 2025 bring in duties such as notice and security safeguards in phases.
• No chat widgets, ad pixels or remarketing tags.

How DVM Techno Can Help

DVM Techno is a web and software company in Gurgaon. We build fast, mobile-friendly, SEO-ready websites, and for advocates that means a plain information site limited to the particulars you choose to publish, with a disclaimer page, a chamber page with a Google Map, and help setting up an accurate Google Business Profile. You decide every word that goes live, and we leave out the template features that Rule 36 does not allow.

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