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Howell & Thornhill
ListedPersonal InjuryLakeland, FL● Accepting new clients
ContingencyFee model
FreeInitial consultation
1Practice areas
About Howell & Thornhill
Howell & Thornhill is a personal injury firm with a single office in Winter Haven.
The firm states that it works on a contingency fee, with nothing to pay unless the case is won; the first consultation is free. It publishes material in English and Spanish.
What this firm has earned Every one from a measured value, with the evidence behind it
No public discipline
No attorney this firm names appears as the respondent in any of the 1237 published discipline decisions of the Supreme Court of Florida on the discipline of Florida Bar members, 1946 to 2026. 1 of them share a surname with a disciplined attorney and were read against the text of those decisions, which name somebody else. Published decisions record what has been decided, so this covers a disbarment or suspension on the record and not whether a registration is current today.
4.8 average over 229 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
39out 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 A (0/25).
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 · B1 Results published: +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 DisciplineNo attorney this firm names appears as the respondent in any of the 1237 published discipline decisions of the Supreme Court of Florida on the discipline of Florida Bar members, 1946 to 2026. 1 of them share a surname with a disciplined attorney and were read against the text of those decisions, which name somebody else. Published decisions record what has been decided, so this covers a disbarment or suspension on the record and not whether a registration is current today.
G3 Entity & officeNot checked1 physical location verified on Google Business Profile; Secretary of State registration still to confirm
G5 WebsiteSite has served over HTTPS, a working phone number published, 7 named attorneys published.
G6 Footprint229 public client reviews across 1 Google listing, above the 10 minimum, and the firm's domain has been registered since 2000-12-08, so it has been operating for more than a year
AProfessional Standing0/25
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 AccountabilityObservedno bar or trial lawyers' association named on the pages we read · 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 them0 / 3
BPublished Outcomes0/15
B1 Results publishedFirm-submittedThe firm publishes no case results we could read0 / 6
B2 SpecificityFirm-submitted0 case types named; no court or county named, so no result can be looked up0 / 5
B3 Results disclosureFirm-submittedNo prior-results disclaimer on the results page, which the New York advertising rules effectively require0 / 4
CClient Experience18/20
C1 Authentic volumeObserved229 Google reviews · Google Business Profile via Places API. 1 listing, counts summed and rating weighted by count4 / 5
C2 Rating qualityObservedGoogle rating 4.8 over 229 reviews → Bayesian 4.81 (prior 4.82 weighted as 100 reviews, from 217 scored firms) · single platform, Google only5 / 6
C3 Review recencyGoogle5 of 5 sampled reviews are from the last 12 months (newest 2026-07-29) · a sample of five per business listing, not every review5 / 5
C5 Complaint shareGoogle0 of 5 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 & Authority8/25
D1 Website trust & experienceObservedCWV fail · no bar numbers on bios · no fee statement · privacy policy · disclaimer · fresh content2 / 7
D2 Search authorityAhrefs · 2026-09-16DR 21 → 69th pct of 13-firm cohort (median 9.5) 2/3 · 524 referring domains, 38th pct 1/2 · 121 organic keywords / 754 visits·mo, 62th pct 1/2 · brand demand 0/1 (pending)4 / 8
D3 Local presenceGoogle1 operational Google Business Profile listing 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 & Responsiveness4/15
E1 Free consult & fee transparencyObservedFree consultation · Contingency · the fee percentage itself is not published3 / 6
E3 Languages & accessibilityObservedEnglish, Spanish1.5 / 4
E4 AvailabilityObservedno availability published0 / 5
Next automated re-check: Oct 1, 2026 · Cohort: Florida x Personal Injury (15 firms measured)How the score works →
Digital presence snapshot
Pillar D signals, re-measured monthly. Paid advertising is not scored.
Domain authority
21· 64th percentile
524 ref. domains · cohort median 10 · Ahrefs rank 8.2M
Observed · Ahrefs, 2026-09-16Trust pages
4 / 4
blog · privacy policy · attorney bios · disclaimer
ObservedCore Web Vitals
Failmobile
Performance 66
Observed · PSI, 2026-09-13Practice areas 1 areas · primary focus highlighted
The firm’s people the firm names its people without saying who among them practises law · 7 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.
- Robert G. Thornhill III (Tri)
- Sherri Scarborough
- Spencer Pastorin
- Tommy Ray
- Ryan McCarthy
- Nancy Schiwitz
- Timothy E. Kiley
Client reviews
4.8
★★★★★
Based on 229 Google reviews · Google Business Profile via Places API. 1 listing, counts summed and rating weighted by count · Quotes below are testimonials published by the firm
Offices 1 location · main office: Winter Haven
Winter Haven1350 Havendale Blvd NW, Winter Haven, FL 33881, USA