Maritime Law Website Structure Guide
A well-structured site for maritime attorneys organizes around Jones Act explainer pages, injury-type pages (offshore, cruise, dockworker), vessel and cargo dispute pages, case eligibility pages — with clear navigation to each, not buried behind a generic "Services" menu.
What the top-level navigation should include
Each of these deserves its own clear place in navigation, not a sub-menu three clicks deep:
- Jones Act explainer pages
- injury-type pages (offshore, cruise, dockworker)
- vessel and cargo dispute pages
- case eligibility pages
Where most sites get the hierarchy wrong
Assuming visitors already know what maritime law covers, when "does this even apply to me" is the actual first question.
URL structure
Keep URLs short, descriptive, and matched to the page's actual content — a URL that matches the page's real topic (rather than an internal project code or generic ID) helps both visitors and search engines understand the page before they even click.
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