816 Congress Ave Ste 950, Austin, TX 78701
Public profile and review data last refreshed Aug 12, 2026.
Stephen T Bowling is a criminal justice attorney in Austin, Texas with a 5.0-star rating across 367 tracked Google reviews. The current build retrieved 367 reviews for this profile and analyzed 334 text reviews. The firm has an owner reply on 58% of retrieved reviews, 81% of analyzed reviewers explicitly recommend it, and communication is mentioned in 27% of analyzed reviews. Its review pattern is highly consistent based on a consistency index of 98.2.
The most common review themes are explicit recommendation (81%), professionalism (36%), and communication (27%). Reviews in the sample mention matters involving workplace injury and wrongful death. Use these signals as due-diligence inputs rather than proof of specialty or likely outcome.
Review verdict
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The strongest recurring praise signals in the analyzed review sample are explicit recommendation (81%), professionalism (36%), and communication (27%). These percentages describe text labels in the captured sample, not independently verified service claims.
Law Leaderboard can confirm that this page represents a public Google Business listing for Stephen T Bowling at 816 Congress Ave Ste 950, Austin, TX 78701. The listing has 367 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.
Stephen T Bowling has a 5.0/5 public Google rating across 367 tracked reviews. Law Leaderboard retrieved 367 reviews and analyzed 334 review texts for this profile. In that sample, the firm has an owner reply on 58% of retrieved reviews, 81% of analyzed reviewers explicitly recommend it, and communication is mentioned in 27% of analyzed reviews. These are public feedback signals, not a legal endorsement or prediction of case results.
The recurring concern labels found in the analyzed negative-review sample are unprofessional (67%). Percentages describe the relevant review sample and should be read with the rating distribution and coverage notes below.
Public review data shows an owner reply on 58% of the reviews retrieved for Stephen T Bowling. This measures responses to public reviews, not communication with clients during a case. Communication appears in 27% of analyzed review texts.
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.
| Metric | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Review Evidence Score | 82.6/100 | Strong evidence; public-review evidence only. |
| Within-market score percentile | 84th percentile | Compared with the fixed Austin, TX cohort. |
| Tracked Google reviews | 367 | Public review count currently visible on the profile. |
| Reviews retrieved | 367 | Review records stored in the current build. |
| Text reviews analyzed | 334 | Review texts used for NLP-derived praise, complaint, and communication metrics. |
| Owner response rate | 58% | Share of retrieved reviews with an owner reply. |
| Explicit recommendation rate | 81% | Share of analyzed reviewers who explicitly recommend the firm. |
| Communication mentions | 27% | Share of analyzed reviews that mention communication. |
| Consistency index | 98.2 | Higher scores indicate a more consistently positive rating pattern. |
Identity-linked office intelligence
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.
Evidence score
82.6/100
Score percentile
84th percentile
Rating percentile
100th percentile
Review-count percentile
80th percentile
Owner-reply percentile
Not scored
Strong evidence from 334 analyzed review texts. The identity match uses exact source IDs in the private graph; those provider IDs are not exposed here.
The nearest scored offices in the same fixed market by Review Evidence Score. Proximity is descriptive, not a recommendation.
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.
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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.
Based on analysis of 334 text reviews in the current build.