John Bales Reviews, Ratings & Complaints

625 E Twiggs St #100, Tampa, FL 33602

Public profile and review data last refreshed Aug 12, 2026.

4.4
84 Google reviews
Claimed Google Business Profile

John Bales is a personal injury attorney in Tampa, Florida with a 4.4-star rating across 84 tracked Google reviews. The current build retrieved 84 reviews for this profile and analyzed 67 text reviews. The firm has an owner reply on 13% of retrieved reviews, 75% of analyzed reviewers explicitly recommend it, and communication is mentioned in 28% of analyzed reviews. Its review pattern is fairly consistent based on a consistency index of 74.6.

The most common review themes are explicit recommendation (75%), communication (28%), and expertise (24%). Reviews in the sample mention matters involving car accident, motorcycle, slip and fall, and medical malpractice. Use these signals as due-diligence inputs rather than proof of specialty or likely outcome.

Review verdict

John Bales Review Summary and Due-Diligence Questions

These direct answers separate what the public review dataset can confirm from licensing, disciplinary, and case-fit questions that require independent verification.

What clients praise

The strongest recurring praise signals in the analyzed review sample are explicit recommendation (75%), communication (28%), and expertise (24%). These percentages describe text labels in the captured sample, not independently verified service claims.

Is John Bales legitimate?

Law Leaderboard can confirm that this page represents a public Google Business listing for John Bales at 625 E Twiggs St #100, Tampa, FL 33602. The listing has 84 tracked Google reviews and is marked as claimed on Google. This does not independently verify attorney licensing, disciplinary history, insurance, or eligibility to handle a specific matter; check the relevant state bar and speak with the firm before hiring.

Is John Bales a good law firm?

John Bales has a 4.4/5 public Google rating across 84 tracked reviews. Law Leaderboard retrieved 84 reviews and analyzed 67 review texts for this profile. In that sample, the firm has an owner reply on 13% of retrieved reviews, 75% of analyzed reviewers explicitly recommend it, and communication is mentioned in 28% of analyzed reviews. These are public feedback signals, not a legal endorsement or prediction of case results.

What do John Bales reviews complain about?

The recurring concern labels found in the analyzed negative-review sample are slow process (13%), unprofessional (13%), and passed around (13%). Percentages describe the relevant review sample and should be read with the rating distribution and coverage notes below.

Does John Bales respond to reviews?

Public review data shows an owner reply on 13% of the reviews retrieved for John Bales. This measures responses to public reviews, not communication with clients during a case. Communication appears in 28% of analyzed review texts.

Firm Snapshot Table

Use this table to see the difference between the firm's public review footprint, the reviews retrieved into the current build, and the text reviews that feed the NLP metrics on this page.

MetricValueWhat it means
Review Evidence Score60.6/100Minimum evidence; public-review evidence only.
Within-market score percentile4.8th percentileCompared with the fixed Tampa, FL cohort.
Tracked Google reviews84Public review count currently visible on the profile.
Reviews retrieved84Review records stored in the current build.
Text reviews analyzed67Review texts used for NLP-derived praise, complaint, and communication metrics.
Owner response rate13%Share of retrieved reviews with an owner reply.
Explicit recommendation rate75%Share of analyzed reviewers who explicitly recommend the firm.
Communication mentions28%Share of analyzed reviews that mention communication.
Consistency index74.6Higher scores indicate a more consistently positive rating pattern.

Identity-linked office intelligence

Where This Office Sits in Tampa, FL

An office’s within-market percentile shows how its Review Evidence Score compares with the other profiles in that market. It is a relative position, not a probability, quality rating, or prediction. The score and percentile reflect public-review evidence only—not legal skill, licensing, case outcomes, misconduct, or suitability.

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Evidence score

60.6/100

Score percentile

4.8th percentile

Rating percentile

2.4th percentile

Review-count percentile

14.3th percentile

Owner-reply percentile

Not scored

Evidence strength and entity relationship

Minimum evidence from 67 analyzed review texts. The identity match uses exact source IDs in the private graph; those provider IDs are not exposed here.

Law Leaderboard office ID
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Law Leaderboard brand ID
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Brand relationship
John Bales

QA-published themes for this office

The published themes are communication, responsiveness or delays, and outcome language. Theme prevalence is calculated only for offices whose theme result passed minimum sample, confidence, and external precision gates. Outcome language reflects an unverified claim in a review; it is not independent confirmation of what happened.

No office-level theme result passed every current publication gate. This is not evidence that reviewers never mentioned these topics.

Release llb-consumer-intelligence-2026-08-12-r4. Trend fields remain withheld until the separate multi-snapshot publication gate is met.

Case Types Mentioned in Reviews

car accidentmotorcycleslip and fallmedical malpractice

Quick Stats

Reviews/Month
0.5
Avg Review Length
265 chars
Local Guide %
18%

Practice Areas

Employment attorneyAttorney

About

Tampa personal injury law firm. John Bales Attorneys specializes in car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, medical malpractice, slip and fall, social security and employment disputes.

What Our Data Shows

The sections below break this firm into measurable signals: responsiveness, communication mentions, review consistency, praised attributes, complaint themes, historical activity, and source-freshness notes. Read them together, not as isolated stats.

Performance Metrics

Based on analysis of 67 text reviews in the current build.

Owner Response Rate
13%
replies to reviews
Explicit Recommendation Rate
75%
of analyzed reviewers
Communication Mentions
28%
of analyzed reviews
Professionalism Mentions
22%
of analyzed reviews
Results Mentions
12%
of analyzed reviews
Compassion Mentions
9%
of analyzed reviews
Average response time: 193.6 days

Rating Distribution

5 star
70 (83%)
4 star
2 (2.4%)
3 star
1 (1.2%)
2 star
0 (0%)
1 star
11 (13%)
88% positive reviews 12% negative reviews Consistency index: 74.6

What Clients Praise

explicit recommendation 74.6% of reviews
communication 28.4% of reviews
expertise 23.9% of reviews
professionalism 22.4% of reviews
case results 11.9% of reviews

Common Concerns (from negative reviews)

slow process (12.5%)
unprofessional (12.5%)
passed around (12.5%)

Other Personal Injury in Tampa

Sources, Freshness & Limitations

Sources

  • Google Business profile data for the firm, including address, phone, website, business attributes, and aggregate public rating.
  • 84 retrieved reviews and 67 text reviews used to calculate praise, complaint, communication, and response metrics for this profile.
  • Consumer intelligence release llb-consumer-intelligence-2026-08-12-r4, derived from llb-depth50-research-2026-08-11-r1, supplies immutable office and brand IDs, market context, evidence-strength tier, and published practice/city memberships.
  • Aggregate business and review-analysis fields rendered from the same exported firm record used by the city rankings; reviewer identities and review text are not republished.

Freshness

  • Business profile last collected: 2026-08-09 23:44:59Z.
  • Review records last collected: 2026-08-11 20:28:34Z; derived metrics last analyzed: 2026-08-12 08:10:00.
  • 84 total Google reviews tracked; 84 reviews retrieved; 67 text reviews analyzed.
  • Consumer intelligence release published 2026-08-12; that is a derived-release date, not a new profile or review observation.
  • Methodology version: review-evidence-v1.0.0. Build packaging timestamp: 2026-08-12 00:00:00Z; this is not a source-refresh date.

Limitations

  • Public review volume, retrieved review records, and text reviews analyzed are different counts and should not be treated as interchangeable.
  • Historical comparison tiles appear only when retrieved review history reaches both full twelve-month windows and each window meets the rating-count threshold.
  • Review-derived case-type and praise signals show what appears in the sample; they do not independently verify board certification or case outcomes.
  • A within-market percentile is a relative position inside the fixed market cohort. It is not a probability, national rank, or legal-performance grade.
  • A theme appears only when that office result passes the published minimum sample, confidence, and external precision gates; absence is not proof that the topic never appears.
  • This page helps you evaluate a firm’s public client-feedback footprint, but hiring decisions still require direct due diligence.
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