Bob Katz Law

ListedPersonal InjuryBaltimore, MD● Accepting new clients

★★★★★ 4.9 · 328 Google reviews3 offices0 attorneysEnglish · Spanish

ContingencyFee model

FreeInitial consultation

24/7intake line

2Practice areas

About Bob Katz Law

Bob Katz Law is a personal injury firm with three offices across Maryland and Virginia.

The firm states that it works on a contingency fee, with nothing to pay unless the case is won; the first consultation is free; its intake line is open around the clock. It publishes material in English and Spanish.

What this firm has earned Every one from a measured value, with the evidence behind it

328 client reviews

Counted across 3 verified Google Business Profile listings, not collected by us and not solicited through us.

4.92 average over 328 reviews

A high rating is easy at low volume and hard to hold at this one. Pillar C scores it against the market rather than against five stars.

Service in Spanish

Published by the firm on its own pages, which is how this was measured rather than assumed from a name.

LFL Certification Score Scored under Methodology v2.0 · rows tagged Registry, Observed or Ahrefs are measured; rows tagged Illustrative are sample values pending full verification

59out of 100

LFL Certification Score · Methodology v2.0Scored across 78 of the 100 points this firm's state lets anyone measure. Anything unscored counts neither for nor against the firm.

Listed

1 eligibility gate(s) still to be checked. Certification needs more of the scale measured than we have managed here, pillar A in particular. Strongest pillar: C; most headroom in pillar A (3/25).

Certified needs more measured

70 needed · A+B+C floor met (84% of the A, B and C points assessed)

Most headroom: A2 Experience: not yet measured (10 pts) · A6 Roster verifiability: not yet measured (9 pts) · D1 Website trust & experience: +6 available

G1 LicensureNot published by MDMaryland does not publish an attorney register we can query, so licensure is not verified here. The state's own attorney search is the place to check it.

G2 DisciplineNot published by MDMaryland does not publish a disciplinary register we can query.

G3 Entity & officeNot published by MD3 physical locations verified on Google Business Profile. Maryland publishes no business register we can query. SDAT's entity search is a form rather than a dataset, its bulk data is sold rather than published, and the state's open data portal carries a count of businesses instead of the register. This is a limit of the published record and not something the firm can change.

G5 WebsiteNot checkedSite has served over HTTPS, a working phone number published, no attorney is named on the site we could read. The gate also asks for no misleading claims, which is an editorial read we have not recorded.

G6 Footprint328 public client reviews across 3 Google listings, above the 10 minimum, and the firm's domain has been registered since 2006-03-02, so it has been operating for more than a year

AProfessional Standing

3/25

A2 ExperiencePendingNot yet assessed0 / 10

A6 Roster verifiabilityPendingNo attorney is named on the site we could read0 / 9

A5 AccountabilityObservedmember of American Association for Justice, Maryland State Bar Association, Maryland Association for Justice · no professional liability cover disclosed, which is not scored here: plaintiff firms in this market do not publish it, and an absence shared by every firm separates none of them3 / 3

BPublished Outcomes

10/15

B1 Results publishedFirm-submitted6 results published on the firm's own site, counted from stated amounts3 / 6

B2 SpecificityFirm-submitted8 case types named; no court or county named, so no result can be looked up3 / 5

B3 Results disclosureFirm-submittedPrior-results disclaimer present, as the advertising rules require4 / 4

CClient Experience

19/20

C1 Authentic volumeObserved328 Google reviews · Google Business Profile via Places API. 3 listings, counts summed and rating weighted by count5 / 5

C2 Rating qualityObservedGoogle rating 4.92 over 328 reviews → Bayesian 4.90 (prior 4.82 weighted as 100 reviews, from 217 scored firms) · single platform, Google only5 / 6

C3 Review recencyGoogle12 of 15 sampled reviews are from the last 12 months (newest 2026-07-31) · a sample of five per business listing, not every review5 / 5

C5 Complaint shareGoogle0 of 15 sampled reviews rate 1 or 2 stars · a sample, so this is the shape of the complaints rather than a count of them4 / 4

DDigital Presence & Authority

7/25

D1 Website trust & experienceObservedCWV fail · no bar numbers on bios · no fee statement · no privacy policy · no disclaimer · fresh content1 / 7

D2 Search authorityAhrefs · 2026-09-16DR 22 → 60th pct of 26-firm cohort (median 19) 2/3 · 758 referring domains, 73th pct 1/2 · 276 organic keywords / 706 visits·mo, 54th pct 1/2 · brand demand 0/1 (pending)4 / 8

D3 Local presenceGoogle3 operational Google Business Profile listings with reviews · profile completeness, NAP consistency across citations and local-pack rank not yet measured (4 of 5 pts still available)1 / 5

D4 Content, E-E-A-T & schemaAhrefs · 2026-09-16content 0/2 · JSON-LD detected 1/1 · earned media 0/11 / 5

EAccess & Responsiveness

7/15

E1 Free consult & fee transparencyObservedFree consultation · Contingency · the fee percentage itself is not published3 / 6

E3 Languages & accessibilityObservedEnglish, Spanish1.5 / 4

E4 AvailabilityObserved24/7 intake line2.5 / 5

Next automated re-check: Oct 1, 2026 · Cohort: Maryland x Personal Injury (27 firms measured)How the score works →

Digital presence snapshot

Pillar D signals, re-measured monthly. Paid advertising is not scored.

Domain authority

22· 60th percentile

758 ref. domains · cohort median 19 · Ahrefs rank 7.5M

Observed · Ahrefs, 2026-09-16

Trust pages

2 / 2

attorney bios · blog

Observed

Core Web Vitals

Failmobile

Performance 34

Observed · PSI, 2026-09-14

Practice areas 2 areas · primary focus highlighted

Personal Injury Workers' Compensation

Case results Only results verified against court records or documentation show amounts

What the firm publishes itself

Bob Katz Law lists 6 case results on its own website, across 8 case types. The page carries its own disclaimer about past results. We have read the page and counted what is on it. We have not confirmed the amounts, so none are repeated here.

constructionmotor vehicletruckpremisesmedical malpracticewrongful deathpedestrianproduct liability

See the firm's own results page ↗

Results are specific to their facts and do not guarantee similar outcomes. Firms submit results through their claimed profile; only results we can substantiate are published with amounts.

Client reviews

4.9

★★★★★

Based on 328 Google reviews · Google Business Profile via Places API. 3 listings, counts summed and rating weighted by count · Quotes below are testimonials published by the firm

Offices 3 locations · main office: Ellicott City

Ellicott City3505 Ellicott Mills Dr # C1, Ellicott City, MD 21043, USA

Baltimore1001 Fleet St Ste 525, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA

Fairfax10560 Main St Unit 318, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA