I would certainly expect that those real lawyers you mention that have stuck with the times are also competent enough to consider the use of a website prior to merely a few months ere their advertisement of their services on a forum. SSL is also quite a low bar to pass for a website. Additionally, it's just odd that the difference in time between the user's account inception and its first post is that of nearly a year.  Can't say it means anything in particular but it's definitely a long lurking session.