**On 3/6/2018 I wrote a significant update to this post which you can find here.  It looks at the best looking legal designs throughout the entire State of Pennsylvania.

 

 

The Steel City features two of the best legal websites I have seen.  The Chafin Luhana site is particularly impressive and definitely worth checking out.  Like most cities, FindLaw has the most PI sites in Pittsburgh with 32 sites showing up in the first 20 pages of results.   Lexis is a distant 2nd with 11.

 

chaffinLuhana

#1  http://www.ohiovalleypilawyers.com

Fabulous new website from ilawyermarketing.   Fantastic color scheme and fabulous use of custom photography.  Content rich site incorporates some very cool interactive features.   Click on one of the main practice areas and it will open up a custom internal menu – highlighting the selected area and it’s sub pages. Philanthropic firm features a very cool video contest aimed at stopping texting and driving.   Very well done responsive design is worth checking out on a mobile device.

romanow

#2 http://romanowlawgroup.com/

A great job using an off the shelf wordpress theme.  Wonderful home page is actually overshadowed by its incredible internal pages.   The car accident page actually features a 3D accident reconstruction scene.

 

goodrich

#3 http://www.goodrichandgeist.com/

Fantastic FindLaw website.  The first modern style design from FindLaw in Pittsburgh is a very good one.   Site also features some cool custom attorney BIO pages- something I haven’t seen from FindLaw before.

Abes

#4 http://www.abesbaumann.com/

An extremely interesting design from a designer unknown.   Design is marked by a series of extreme close-ups of various faces.  Very original with some great taglines.

 tershel
#5 http://tershelandassociates.com/

This looks like an ex-FindLaw website.  If you can’t  tell by the design, the resource page layout is the standard template for a FindLAw website.   This site is a great example of a client who likely purchased the end user interface from FindLaw.   Meaning the firm gained the rights to the content and design that FindLaw created.  What they did not get was any of the onsite SEO, which of course is a surefire way to  tank your website in the search results.  FindLaw’s policy of stripping a site’s onsite SEO when a client leaves them seems extremely pernicious to me.