Upheld

About this template

Upheld is for the lawyer whose name is on the door: a sole practitioner or a very small office that acts for people and small businesses.

The page opens on the lawyer, full height, beside one plain sentence. Scroll, and the portrait shrinks into the corner and stays there as a small card with a call button, on every page. Further down, results are told in one word each: "Reinstated.", "Returned.", "Paid.", in a pinned scene that steps through four matters.

Practice areas are written the way clients describe their trouble ("I have lost my job", "My landlord wants me out"). Fees are a table of prices, not a promise to quote. Copy is in the first person throughout, so the site sounds like one lawyer and not a firm.

It is one dark theme in teal with a single light yellow accent, set in Switzer, with hairlines in place of cards. No gavels, no scales, no serif headline.

Pages

Home, Practice, five practice pages, Matters with a filter, six matter pages, About, Fees, Notes, four notes, Contact with a working form, three legal pages, 404, and a Style guide. 28 routes in the demo.

CMS

Eight collections: Matters, Practice, Steps, Fees, Testimonials, Questions, Notes, Legal. Lists, detail pages, counts and the next links fill themselves.

Components

Corner card (the docking portrait), Verdict (the one-word results scene), Quote row (pick a name, read their words), Navigation, Button, Question row and Submit button, plus small overrides for photo drift, a photo that opens on scroll and a process line that travels sideways. Every control has a plain title and a description.