Case study

Christopher P. Brandlin, APC

An Elementor build for an attorney licensed in California, Texas and DC, carrying a broad practice, a trademarked niche brand, a wall of recognition and a TV segment on one site, with free-evaluation requests and online payments wired in.

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IndustryLegal

BuildElementor

My roleDesign and Development

Year2023

Christopher P. Brandlin, APC home page: attorney portrait against a law-library backdrop, with Personal Injury, Real Estate Law and Trust Litigation cards

Results

Four steps, no mystery.

The numbers it launched with.

76/100

PageSpeed, desktop

63/100

PageSpeed, mobile

0

Cumulative Layout Shift, both platforms

3

Jurisdictions: CA, TX, DC

Live PageSpeed Insights reports, August 2026.

The Brif

A wide practice and a lot of credibility to organise

Christopher P. Brandlin, APC is a law practice led by an attorney licensed in California, Texas and the District of Columbia, with an unusually wide practice: personal injury, real estate law, trust and estate litigation, and estate planning, plus a trademarked niche, The Mold Attorney, for mold contamination and toxic-exposure claims.

On top of the practice areas there is a lot of credibility to carry: an AV Preeminent rating, four years of Super Lawyers “Rising Stars,” local “favorite attorney” awards, and a television segment with Montel Williams. The site had to organise all of it, route visitors to the right practice area, capture free-evaluation requests, and take online payments.

What I did

A custom theme built around

Zero layout shift, and a real performance backlog

Cumulative Layout Shift is a literal 0 on both desktop and mobile, and blocking time is green, so nothing jumps and scripts are not the bottleneck. Best Practices is 96 and SEO is 92.

No spin: this is the lowest-scoring build in the portfolio, 76 on desktop and 63 on mobile. It is a media-dense site, attorney photography throughout, award badges, a television segment with a video, a chat widget, and those assets are not yet compressed or deferred. Mobile Largest Contentful Paint is 15.8 s as a result. This one needs a dedicated performance pass: lazy-loading and compressing the imagery, deferring the video and third-party widgets, and inlining critical CSS. It is the clearest before-and-after opportunity in the set, and the work is scoped.

Christopher P. Brandlin, APC

Desktop .Performance 76 . CLS 0, media not yet optimised

PageSpeed Insights report for the same site on mobile: Performance 63, Accessibility 87, Best Practices 96, SEO 92, First Contentful Paint 3.3 s, Largest Contentful Paint 15.8 s, Total Blocking Time 120 ms, Cumulative Layout Shift 0

Christopher P. Brandlin, APC

Mobile .Performance 63 . LCP 15.8 s, perf pass scoped

A closer look

The home page, top to bottom.

Full-length capture of the Christopher P. Brandlin, APC home page

The full home page.

Outcome

What it does now

The site carries a wide practice, a trademarked niche brand, a wall of recognition and a TV segment without feeling scattered, and it takes evaluations and payments online. Layout stability is already perfect. The performance work, compressing and deferring the media, is scoped and is the next job on this site.

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