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Miller & Steele Law Firm

LFL Verified 2026Personal InjurySan Diego, CA● Accepting new clients
★★★★★ 5.0 · 92 Google reviews1 office3 attorneysEnglish
ContingencyFee model
FreeInitial consultation
6Practice areas

About Miller & Steele Law Firm

Miller & Steele Law Firm works from El Camino Real in Carlsbad and names six attorneys.

92 reviews at 5.0. Contingency fees and a free consultation, published. It publishes 27 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.

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

LFL Verified 2026

Every eligibility gate this firm's state allows us to check has been checked and held: licensure, discipline, entity, website and footprint. Certification additionally requires a score of 70.

27 results published

Across 5 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.

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

52out 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.

Verified

3 of 5 eligibility gates passed. 2 could not be answered from the available records (G2, G3) and do not count against the firm. Strongest pillar: C; most headroom in pillar E (3/15).

LFL Verified 2026
13 points to Certified
65 needed · A+B+C floor not yet met (61% of the A, B and C points assessed)
Most headroom: A6 Roster verifiability: +8 available · E4 Availability: +5 available · B3 Results disclosure: +4 available
G1 Licensure2 of 5 named attorneys hold an active California licence and none carries an adverse status. 3 name(s) could not be told apart from namesakes and are counted neither way
G2 DisciplineNo answer in the recordNo disciplinary record is held against any of the 2 attorneys we identified. David R. Miller could not be told apart from 8 namesakes, one of whom is not eligible to practise. Held open.
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, 4 named attorneys published.
G6 Footprint92 public client reviews across 1 Google listing, above the 10 minimum, and the firm's domain has been registered since 2015-09-15, so it has been operating for more than a year
Professional Standing
8/25
A2 ExperienceRegistryMean 10.0 years since admission across 1 of 3 named attorneys (longest 10, shortest 10) · NYS Attorney Registration database7 / 10
A6 Roster verifiabilityRegistry1 of 3 named attorneys matched to the California register; no bar number published on any bio1 / 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
9/15
B1 Results publishedFirm-submitted27 results published on the firm's own site, counted from stated amounts6 / 6
B2 SpecificityFirm-submitted5 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 volumeObserved92 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 92 reviews → Bayesian 4.91 (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 2026-07-24) · 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
8/25
D1 Website trust & experienceObservedCWV fail · no fee statement · privacy policy · no 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 firm1.5 / 5
D2 Search authorityAhrefs · 2026-09-30DR 17 → 53th pct of 109-firm cohort (median 14) 2/3 · 1,013 referring domains, 52th pct 1/2 · 148 organic keywords / 2,584 visits·mo, 74th pct 1/2 · brand demand 0/1 (pending)4 / 8
D3 Local presenceGoogle1 operational Google Business Profile listing · 10 or more photos, which is where the API stops counting · 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 unearned1 / 1
D4 Content, E-E-A-T & schemaAhrefs · 2026-09-30JSON-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
3/15
E1 Free consult & fee transparencyObservedFree consultation · Contingency · the fee percentage itself is not published3 / 6
E3 Languages & accessibilityObservedEnglish0 / 4
E4 AvailabilityObservedno availability published0 / 5
Next automated re-check: Nov 1, 2026 · Cohort: San Diego Personal Injury (113 firms measured)How the score works →

Digital presence snapshot

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

Domain authority
17· 51th percentile
1,013 ref. domains · cohort median 16 · Ahrefs rank 10.7M
Observed · Ahrefs, 2026-09-30
Trust pages
3 / 3
attorney bios · privacy policy · blog
Observed
Core Web Vitals
Failmobile
Performance 56
Observed · PSI, 2026-09-30

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

What the firm publishes itself

Miller & Steele Law Firm lists 27 case results on its own website, across 5 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 vehicletruckpremiseswrongful deathpedestrian
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 · 2 more people are named by the firm without a role, so we do not call them attorneys

ZM
Zachary D. MillerAdmitted in NY

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.

Client reviews

5.0
★★★★★
Based on 92 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: Miller & Steele Accident and Injury Lawyers

Miller & Steele Accident and Injury Lawyers5650 El Camino Real Ste 103, Carlsbad, CA 92008, USA

Frequently asked questions

How much does Miller & Steele Law Firm charge?
Miller & Steele Law Firm publishes a contingency fee, which means the fee is a share of what the case recovers and there is nothing to pay if it recovers nothing. The rate itself is not published, so ask for it in writing, along with how case expenses are handled and whether they come out of the recovery before or after the fee. The first consultation is free, which is the place to ask.
Does Miller & Steele Law Firm offer a free consultation?
Yes. Miller & Steele Law Firm publishes a free initial consultation.
Where does Miller & Steele Law Firm have offices?
Miller & Steele Law Firm publishes one office, in Carlsbad. Addresses and the Google listing behind each one are on this profile under Offices.
Who are the attorneys at Miller & Steele Law Firm?
Miller & Steele Law Firm names six attorneys on its own site, and each is listed on this profile with the page we read them from. They have not been checked against a state register: California 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.
Are the case results Miller & Steele Law Firm publishes verified?
No. Miller & Steele Law Firm publishes 27 case results with amounts on its own site. We counted them and we did not confirm them: the figures are the firm's. Pillar B scores whether a firm publishes outcomes and discloses them properly, including whether a prior-results disclaimer appears beside them, not whether the amounts are right. Past results do not predict another case.
What has Law Firm Listings verified about Miller & Steele Law Firm?
Miller & Steele Law Firm scores 54 and sits at Verified. Passed: website and footprint. Could not be answered from any public source and therefore counts neither for nor against the firm: licensure, discipline and entity registration. Every row of the scorecard above names where the value came from and when it was read. Nothing on this profile was supplied by the firm for payment, and no placement here can be bought.