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Law Office of Michael D. Waks

LFL Certified 2026 · Score 67Personal InjuryLos Angeles, CA● Accepting new clients
★★★★★ 5.0 · 124 Google reviews1 office1 attorneysEnglish
ContingencyFee model
FreeInitial consultation
24/7intake line
Hospital& home visits
6Practice areas

About Law Office of Michael D. Waks

Law Office of Michael D. Waks is a personal injury firm with a single office in Long Beach.

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 will visit clients in hospital or at home.

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

LFL Certified 2026

Scored 67 out of 100 on measured evidence, above the 70 this tier requires, with every eligibility gate its state allows us to check cleared.

No public discipline

No named attorney carries a disbarment, a suspension or a disciplinary resignation on the State Bar of California's record, across the 1 we identified. Administrative suspensions, which the State Bar states are non-disciplinary, are not counted here. The State Bar's record for Michael Waks carries an earlier entry, which is not outstanding against the licence today and is published in full at https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/106452

5 average over 124 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.

22 results published

Across 6 case types on the firm's own site. We read the page and counted what is on it; the amounts are the firm's and we have not confirmed them.

44 years average at the bar

Mean 44.0 years since admission across 1 of 1 named attorneys (longest 44, shortest 44) · NYS Attorney Registration database

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

67out of 100
LFL Certification Score · Methodology v2.0Scored across 87 of the 87 points this firm's state lets anyone measure, out of 100 in the methodology: 13 of them need a register that California does not publish for us to read. Anything unscored counts neither for nor against the firm.

LFL Certified

4 of 5 eligibility gates passed. 1 could not be answered from the available records (G3) and does not count against the firm. Strongest pillar: C; most headroom in pillar D (9/25).

LFL Certified 2026 · re-verified Oct 24, 2026
11 points to Distinguished
78 needed · A+B+C floor not yet met (73% of the A, B and C points assessed)
Most headroom: B3 Results disclosure: +4 available · E3 Languages & accessibility: +4.0 available · A6 Roster verifiability: +3 available
G1 Licensure1 of 1 named attorneys hold an active California licence and none carries an adverse status
G2 DisciplineNo named attorney carries a disbarment, a suspension or a disciplinary resignation on the State Bar of California's record, across the 1 we identified. Administrative suspensions, which the State Bar states are non-disciplinary, are not counted here. The State Bar's record for Michael Waks carries an earlier entry, which is not outstanding against the licence today and is published in full at https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/106452
G3 Entity & officeNot published by CA1 physical location verified on Google Business Profile. California publishes no business register we are able to query, so the registration itself is not verified here. The state's own business search is the place to check it.
G5 WebsiteSite has served over HTTPS, a working phone number published, 1 named attorney published.
G6 Footprint124 public client reviews across 1 Google listing, above the 10 minimum, and the firm's domain has been registered since 2004-06-08, so it has been operating for more than a year
Professional Standing
16/25
A2 ExperienceRegistryMean 44.0 years since admission across 1 of 1 named attorneys (longest 44, shortest 44) · NYS Attorney Registration database10 / 10
A6 Roster verifiabilityRegistry1 of 1 named attorneys matched to the California register; no bar number published on any bio6 / 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 Outcomes
8/15
B1 Results publishedFirm-submitted22 results published on the firm's own site, counted from stated amounts4.5 / 6
B2 SpecificityFirm-submitted6 case types named; no court or county named, so no result can be looked up3 / 5
B3 Results disclosureFirm-submittedNo prior-results disclaimer on the results page. A past result is not a prediction of another one, and the disclaimer is the sentence that says so0 / 4
CClient Experience
18/20
C1 Authentic volumeObserved124 Google reviews · Google Business Profile via Places API. 1 listing, counts summed and rating weighted by count3 / 5
C2 Rating qualityObservedGoogle rating 5.0 over 124 reviews → Bayesian 4.92 (prior 4.83 weighted as 100 reviews, from 1410 scored firms) · single platform, Google only6 / 6
C3 Review recencyGoogle5 of 5 sampled reviews are from the last 12 months (newest 2026-06-18) · 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 & Authority
9/25
D1 Website trust & experienceObservedCWV fail · no fee statement · privacy policy · disclaimer · fresh content · scored out of 5 of the 7: nothing has measured accessibility or bar numbers on bios here yet, so it is not counted against this firm2 / 5
D2 Search authorityAhrefs · 2026-10-19DR 17.0 → 59th pct of 141-firm cohort (median 13) 2/3 · 1,246 referring domains, 60th pct 1/2 · 171 organic keywords / 1,359 visits·mo, 76th pct 2/2 · brand demand 0/1 (pending)5 / 8
D3 Local presenceGoogle1 operational Google Business Profile listing · 8 photos · 5 categories, hours published, which almost every listing here has and so separates nobody · the services list, Q&A and recent posts are owner-side fields the Places API does not expose, and NAP consistency across citations and local-pack rank have no source here, so the rest of this sub-factor leaves the scale rather than being scored as unearned0.8 / 1
D4 Content, E-E-A-T & schemaAhrefs · 2026-10-19JSON-LD detected 1/1 · not assessed on any firm yet, so content depth and earned media and AI citations leave the scale (4 pts)1 / 1
EAccess & Responsiveness
8/15
E1 Free consult & fee transparencyObservedFree consultation · Contingency · the fee percentage itself is not published3 / 6
E3 Languages & accessibilityObservedEnglish0 / 4
E4 AvailabilityObserved24/7 intake line · Hospital & home visits5 / 5
Next automated re-check: Nov 1, 2026 · Cohort: Los Angeles Personal Injury (144 firms measured)How the score works →

Digital presence snapshot

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

Domain authority
17· 58th percentile
1,246 ref. domains · cohort median 13.5 · Ahrefs rank 11.1M
Observed · Ahrefs, 2026-10-19
Trust pages
3 / 3
disclaimer · privacy policy · blog
Observed
Core Web Vitals
Failmobile
Performance 61
Observed · PSI, 2026-10-12

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

What the firm publishes itself

Law Office of Michael D. Waks lists 22 case results on its own website, across 6 case types. The page carries no 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.

motor vehicletruckpremisesproduct liabilityassaultsex offense
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.

Attorneys 1 attorney · every licence checked against the California attorney register

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Michael WaksAdmitted in CA

Client reviews

5.0
★★★★★
Based on 124 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: Michael D. Waks Long Beach Personal Injury Lawyer & Car Accident Attorney

Michael D. Waks Long Beach Personal Injury Lawyer & Car Accident Attorney1 World Trade Center #800, Long Beach, CA 90831, USA