Property Bar Association

The Property Bar Association is the professional body for Barristers in England & Wales who practise in the field of property law. They offer a program of educational lectures and seminars for established practitioners throughout the legal year and have a regular training series aimed specifically at young practitioners.

The Property Bar were looking to replace their old website with a new system that would allow their marketing team a user friendly CMS as well as a system to allow them to manage the bars memberships, subscriptions and organise events. The Property Bar wanted a website that featured a real-time searchable database of members and their chambers, which allows site users to refine their searches by experience and other factors. 

Property Bar also had a special requirement, which was to allow their members the ability to update their own profiles online without having access to the CMS. The system would use a defined template, manageable by marketing staff, for content. Members could also select specialisms, chambers and profile images. It was required that this system work on all devices and would not require any training to use. For example: profile images should be auto scaled and cropped and the content should be edited using familiar controls in a WYSIWYG style interface. The system also needed to allow members to first preview their content before publishing it to the website.

Key members of the Property Bar had become aware of Pilotbean’s expertise and services in relation to building Barristers websites and marketing tools via our successful delivery of the Hardwicke website, email marketing platform and event management system. In 2013 Pilotbean was selected to deliver a new website and content management system alongside our event management platform and online profile editing systems. 

Update

In 2015 The Property Bar marketing team required further assistance from Pilotbean, they were looking for a system to take event payments online and to have this integrated into the existing event RSVP system. On top of that, a distinct searchable directory for academic members and several management workflow changes were built on time and within budget. The completed tasks ensured the back office was working efficiently with current practices and infrastructure .