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Goede, DeBoest & Cross

ListedReal EstateNaples, FL● Accepting new clients
★★★★★ 4.5 · 48 Google reviews4 offices27 attorneysEnglish
Not statedFee model
PaidInitial consultation
1Practice areas

About Goede, DeBoest & Cross

Goede, DeBoest & Cross names 27 people across four offices, and its practice leads with community association law, which in Collier County is most of what a real estate lawyer does: estoppel certificates, reserve studies and the disputes that follow them.

On ten pages it publishes no fee terms we could record, no escrow arrangement and none of the stages of a purchase. 48 reviews at 4.45.

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

37out of 100
LFL Certification Score · Methodology v2.0Scored across 78 of the 91 points this firm's state lets anyone measure, out of 100 in the methodology: 9 of them need a register that Florida does not publish for us to read. 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 E (0/15).

Certified needs more measured
70 needed · A+B+C floor not yet met (47% of the A, B and C points assessed)
Most headroom: A2 Experience: not yet measured (10 pts) · A6 Roster verifiability: +9 available · E1 Free consult & fee transparency: +6 available
G1 LicensureNot published by FLFlorida 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 FL2 of the firm's attorneys share a surname with a disciplined attorney, and for Brianna Jones 1 of 3 decision(s) naming this surname have no searchable text, so they can be neither tied to nor ruled out against this attorney. The decisions that cannot be read are scans without searchable text, so this is a limit of the published record. Nothing here says the firm's attorney is that person.
G3 Entity & officeNot checked4 physical locations verified on Google Business Profile; Secretary of State registration still to confirm
G5 WebsiteSite has served over HTTPS, a working phone number published, 27 named attorneys published.
G6 Footprint48 public client reviews across 4 Google listings, above the 10 minimum, and the firm's domain has been registered since 2014-10-03, so it has been operating for more than a year
Professional Standing
3/25
A2 ExperiencePendingNot yet assessed0 / 10
A6 Roster verifiabilityno queryable sourceFlorida publishes no attorney register we can query, so the roster is not verified here and this is not scored.0 / 9
A5 AccountabilityObservedmember of American Bar Association, New York State Trial Lawyers Association · 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
2/15
B1 Fee terms publishedFirm-submittedSays something about how it charges, without a figure and without a flat fee: "We have consistently found him to be highly professional, exceptionally knowledgeable, and thoroughly reliable, all while maintaining reasonable fee structures."2 / 6
B2 The transaction explainedFirm-submittedNames none of the stages of a closing on the 10 pages we read0 / 5
B3 Escrow disclosedFirm-submittedSays nothing about who holds the deposit or where, on any of the 10 pages we read0 / 4
CClient Experience
13/20
C1 Authentic volumeObserved48 Google reviews · Google Business Profile via Places API. 4 listings, counts summed and rating weighted by count2 / 5
C2 Rating qualityObservedGoogle rating 4.45 over 48 reviews → Bayesian 4.70 (prior 4.82 weighted as 100 reviews, from 217 scored firms) · single platform, Google only4 / 6
C3 Review recencyGoogle7 of 16 sampled reviews are from the last 12 months (newest 2026-08-05) · a sample of five per business listing, not every review4 / 5
C5 Complaint shareGoogle1 of 16 sampled reviews rate 1 or 2 stars · a sample, so this is the shape of the complaints rather than a count of them3 / 4
DDigital Presence & Authority
10/25
D1 Website trust & experienceObservedCWV fail · no bar numbers on bios · no fee statement · privacy policy · no disclaimer · fresh content1.5 / 7
D2 Search authorityAhrefs · 2026-09-16DR 26 → 95th pct of 19-firm cohort (median 4.75) 3/3 · 577 referring domains, 84th pct 2/2 · 28 organic keywords / 261 visits·mo, 84th pct 2/2 · brand demand 0/1 (pending)7 / 8
D3 Local presenceGoogle4 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
0/15
E1 Free consult & fee transparencyObservedfee model not published · the fee percentage itself is not published0 / 6
E3 Languages & accessibilityObservedEnglish0 / 4
E4 AvailabilityObservedno availability published0 / 5
Next automated re-check: Oct 1, 2026 · Cohort: Naples x Real Estate (20 firms measured)How the score works →

Digital presence snapshot

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

Domain authority
26· 95th percentile
577 ref. domains · cohort median 4.75 · Ahrefs rank 5.7M
Observed · Ahrefs, 2026-09-16
Trust pages
3 / 3
attorney bios · blog · privacy policy
Observed
Core Web Vitals
Failmobile
Performance 61
Observed · PSI, 2026-09-15

Practice areas 1 areas · primary focus highlighted

Real Estate

The firm’s people the firm names its people without saying who among them practises law · 27 more people are named by the firm without a role, so we do not call them attorneys

Also named by the firm

The firm lists these people among its team and prints no role beside the names, so we do not describe them as attorneys.

  • John C. Goede
  • Brian O. Cross
  • Richard D. DeBoest
  • Lee-Anne Bosch
  • Stanley A. Bunner Jr
  • Peter J. Cambs
  • Harris B. Katz
  • Kurtis Jay Keefer
  • Amanda Broadwell
  • Brad Botko
  • Brandon Karas
  • Brianna Jones
  • Erin Ward
  • John Trebilcock
  • W. Nate Irvine
  • Joseph Endicott
  • Kristie Mace
  • Madelin D’Arce
  • Sarah Baulac
  • Valerie L. Lord
  • Tovah Katja Nadassky
  • Michael M. Ricobaldi
  • Amber G. Williams
  • Callie Frey
  • Justin T. Bailey
  • John Truitt
  • Benjamin Thomas

Client reviews

4.5
★★★★★
Based on 48 Google reviews · Google Business Profile via Places API. 4 listings, counts summed and rating weighted by count · Quotes below are testimonials published by the firm

Offices 4 locations · main office: Naples

Naples6609 Willow Park Dr Ste 201, Naples, FL 34109, USA
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