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TL;DR: Five Forward Push-designed websites appear in Attorney at Law Magazine’s 2026 best-websites list. Explore each design and the ideas to consider for your firm’s next website.
A tax notice, a criminal charge, and a business contract bring people to law firm websites for very different reasons. The website needs to recognize that difference before the visitor has to explain it.
That's the thinking behind five websites we designed at Forward Push Law Firm Marketing that appear in Attorney at Law Magazine's Best Law Firm Websites in 2026 list. Published September 22, 2026, the article features 73 websites and credits Forward Push as the designer for each of these five:
- The Law Offices of Alyssa Whatley
- Sammy Kim, Esq.
- Bryan Brown Law
- MacGregor Lyon
- Sowerby & Moustakis Law PLLC
We're proud to see this work recognized. And if you're thinking about a new law firm website for 2027, these examples give you something useful to compare: how different practices help a visitor find the right information and decide what to do next.
The recognition concerns website design. It isn't a ranking of the firms' legal services or a measurement of the business results their websites produce.
The Law Offices of Alyssa Whatley: Start with the tax problem
A person looking for help with a bank levy shouldn't have to know the name of the legal solution before finding the right page.
On Alyssa Whatley's website, the navigation gives visitors two starting points: Tax Problems and Tax Solutions. The problems menu names situations such as wage garnishments and unfiled returns. The solutions menu includes payment plans and penalty abatements.
That distinction gives the visitor a choice. Start with what happened, or start with the response you're already researching. Attorney information and video resources are available alongside those pages, so visitors can learn about the person behind the practice without losing their place.
We worked with Alyssa for seven years before she joined Frost Law. The magazine lists the website under The Law Offices of Alyssa Whatley; the current homepage identifies her affiliation with Frost Law. The design credit discussed here is for the showcased website, not Frost Law's corporate website.
What to borrow for your own site: Name the problems your clients recognize. Don't make them learn your service terminology first.
Sammy Kim: Show what happens after someone reaches out
Tax questions also bring uncertainty about the process. What will the attorney review? What happens before a proposed response?
Sammy Kim's website makes that sequence visible through three sections: Diagnose Your Case, Analyze Your Options, and Resolve Your Case. The descriptions explain how reviewing notices and tax records leads into an assessment of the client's circumstances and the available response.
The navigation separates IRS issues from state tax matters. A visible link takes visitors to the Korean-language site, while FAQs and reviews offer other ways to learn about the practice. The consultation link provides a next step.
There are two distinct design choices here: explain the work, and make the language options easy to find. Neither requires a visitor to guess where to click.
What to borrow for your own site: Explain the first part of working together. If you serve people in more than one language, put that choice where they can see it.
Bryan Brown Law: Make the next step obvious
The first screen of Bryan Brown Law's website pairs a direct message about helping someone after a mistake with a prominent consultation button. The visitor doesn't have to search the footer to find out how to get in touch.
The rest of the site supports that opening. Charge categories identify the criminal matters the firm handles, including traffic offenses, drug cases, and theft. The attorney's former-prosecutor background gives visitors context about his experience.
The navigation also includes fee information and FAQs. Those are useful destinations for someone who wants more information before contacting a lawyer, rather than another page of broad claims about legal representation.
The design lesson is in that order: address the person's situation, show where to go next, and make the supporting information easy to reach.
What to borrow for your own site: Open your homepage on a phone. Can you find the contact route without opening three menus or scrolling past your entire biography?
MacGregor Lyon: Give business owners two ways in
A startup founder and an established owner looking for contract help don't necessarily begin with the same question.
MacGregor Lyon's website provides separate navigation for Who We Help and What We Do. The first route includes small businesses and startups. The second leads into the legal services the firm provides.
That gives the owner two ways to begin: with the kind of business they run or with a specific piece of legal work. The firm's services include outside general counsel, business formation, contracts, and mergers and acquisitions. Attorney background, fees, and FAQs provide more detail for someone comparing their options.
The Atlanta imagery gives the site a clear local setting. The navigation does a different job: it helps an owner move beyond the homepage without needing to know which legal category fits their question.
What to borrow for your own site: Give visitors a route based on their situation as well as your services. Your firm's internal department names aren't the only way to organize a website.
Sowerby & Moustakis: Separate planning from what comes afterward
Sowerby & Moustakis Law PLLC, based in Amherst, serves clients in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Its website gives estate planning and elder law their own routes, alongside probate and trust administration and litigation.
Those labels matter. Someone preparing an estate plan is looking for different information from someone responsible for administering a parent's estate. A visitor with a dispute needs another path again.
The website names those services separately instead of placing everything under one broad estate-law heading. Attorney and staff profiles let visitors learn who works at the firm, while FAQs and fee information answer practical questions. Small-business services have their own place, too.
This is a useful example of letting navigation explain the scope of a practice without making the visitor read every page to understand it.
What to borrow for your own site: Separate services that involve different circumstances. Make the right starting point visible to the person who needs it.
Planning a law firm website for 2027? Test the first visit
Looking through these five websites, the useful comparison is the route each one gives its visitors. The tax sites explain problems or process. The business law site offers audience-based navigation. The estate planning site separates different kinds of work.
For a website project in late 2026 or 2027, we recommend starting with a simple check. Hand your phone to someone who doesn't know your firm and ask them to find the page that matches a specific legal problem. Then ask them to find out who would help and how to make contact.
Watch where they pause. A menu label that makes perfect sense to your team might mean very little to someone outside the firm. That's useful feedback before you spend time debating colors or homepage animations.
At Forward Push, our law firm website design and development work starts with the firm and the people it wants to reach. You can explore more of that work in our Law Firm Marketing Case Studies.
Before your next website meeting, try that phone test. Bring the page where the visitor got stuck.
